Verse Chapter Verse, co-presented with THE STRANGER and the SUNSET TAVERN. A lively evening is in store at Ballard's Sunset Tavern as award-winning novelist Gary Shtyengart hits town for his much-awaited new novel, Super Sad True Love Story (Random). He'll be joined here this evening by The Stranger's Paul Constant and the popular, terrific group Orkestar Zirkonium for a program that will include reading, talk, music, and books. "The sweet but hapless Lenny Abramov and the beautiful Eunice Park are the Romeo and Juliet of our wobbly age. Super Sad True Love Story is a terrifying and heartbreaking yet exhilarating and hilarious vision of where our post-literate, post-solvent civilization is headed." – Kiran Desai. "This is one of the funniest and most frightening books I've ever read. I've never really believed in the horrors of 1984, but the details in Super Sad True Love Story are all too convincing. Gary Shteyngart is our greatest satirist, but he also knows how to write about love and vulnerability in a way to make the angels (and ordinary mortals) weep." - Edmund White. Gary Shteynagart's debut novel, The Russian Debutante's Handbook, won the National Jewish Book Award and the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction. His second novel, Absurdistan, was cited on best book of the year lists by The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Time, and other publications. $5 cover charge at the door. The Sunset Taven (www.sunsettavern.com) is at 5433 Ballard Avenue NW.