I don’t think I’ll be at this reading but here’s the email I received from the author this morning:

Hi Louise,

I’m the author of the book Poop Culture: How America is Shaped by its
Grossest National Product, published by Feral House. I’m also a Park
Slope resident (kinda — does below 4th Ave count these days?). I
thought you’d like to know that I’m doing a reading/lecture at the
Park Slope Barnes and Noble next Wednesday at 7:30 PM.

Poop Culture is a funny book, of course. Given the subject, how could
it not be? But it’s also a heavily researched analysis of something that
rarely receives serious consideration. Poop Culture’s main focus is the
true origin of the flush toilet: invented not for sanitary reasons, as
conventional wisdom holds, but rather as a tool to help rich Victorians
separate themselves from the upwardly-mobile masses during the
Industrial Revolution. From that basis, Poop Culture explores how the
ideology of waste disposal affects us today in our psychology,
sociology, art, economics, the environment, and more.

I’ll be touching on many of those issues on during my reading. Chances
are I’ll even touch on the sewage issues in the Gowanus during storms
and the reported potential for the Atlantic Yards to overwhelm the
area’s sewage capacity. It’ll be a fun and fascinating (and rated PG)
event.

For more information, check out www.PoopTheBook.com. You can find
links to the review of my book in Publisher’s Weekly and the op-ed I
published a few months ago in The New York Times.

Yours,

Dave Praeger
Poop Culture
www.poopthebook.com