Joseph O'Neill Presents Good Trouble in Capitol Hill Tonight

by Rich SmithO'Neill reads from his new collection this evening at Elliott Bay Book CompanyJoseph O'Neill regularly publishes beautifully structured, hysterically funny stories in the New Yorker. If you don't believe me, read "Pardon Edward Snowden," which is one of the 11 stories included in his new collection, Good Trouble.In the story, O'Neill uses a conversation between two poets to lambaste the language we use to discuss art's "utility," as well as the language that drives the various polit