What do Stephen King, Dave Barry, Amy Tan, Matt Groening,James McBride and Mitch Albom have in common? They are some of the members of the Rock Bottom Remainders,a group of authors who turn rock stars once a year to raise funds for children's literacy programs. I saw them on Good Morning America today and they were not bad at all. Apparently Stephen King has the weirdest groupies but he wouldn't elaborate. This year they are calling their weeklong tour "Still Younger than Keith". They're performing June 1st in Webster Hall, with even Frank McCourt making an appearance. One of the charities they support is Get Caught Reading. May was Get Caught Reading month; Avenue Q's Kate Monster and Trekkie Monster joined the fun. Here's what the Monsters had to say, from the Get Caught Reading website:
AVENUE Q's Kate Monster -- whose busy life as a kindergarten teaching assistant and single young woman in the city would appear to preempt time with a good book - says, in fact, that she finds solace in reading: "There are only so many papers I can grade before I long to disappear into a little Jane Austen," she says. And Trekkie Monster, an avid investor who spends most days scrutinizing stock quotes, credits his love of reading to a monster aunt who turned him on to the works of Maurice Sendak. "I could have sworn WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE was written for me!" he adds.
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