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Sir Archibald Whistler V, the benefactor of The Honest Liar’s Club: An FIU Reading Series, has plenty of motivation for giving the brightest stars of Florida International University’s creative writing program their own stage: After all, he can’t read. Or write. As a matter of fact, Ooga, his smart ape, does all of his personal letter-writing for him. Who has time for literacy when there is adventure to be had! The island atoll of Cosmoledo has a pesky zombie puffin problem? Send in the Arch. Australia is slipping off the edge of space/time owing to an airborne vegemite virus? Send in the Arch. Steven Hawking needs someone to pick him up so he can dunk a basketball with his teeth? Send. In. The. Arch.
But while Archie is off fighting things that go bump in the night, come see his squires and dudettes in training read their poems and short stories at the Luna Star Café, in addition to a new letter from Archie detailing his latest adventure. Defeat illiteracy! Drink beer! Grow a beard! Train a smart ape! Roller-skate to “Xanadu”!
Tue., Sept. 1, 8:30 p.m.; Tue., Oct. 13, 8:30 p.m.; Tue., Nov. 3, 8:30 p.m.; Tue., Dec. 1, 8:30 p.m., 2009
