My Funny Valentine

Christopher Moore, on tour with his latest novel, “Fool,” appears at the Borders in Northridge on Sat., Feb. 14, at 2 pm. “Fool” is a bawdy (the author says there’s plenty of “shagging”) and humorous retelling of Shakespeare’s “King Lear” from the point of view of the king’s fool, Pocket. An American author of incredible imagination, Moore also authored the irreverent and epic “Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal,” in which the adventures of a teen-aged Jesus and his friend Biff read like a take on “The Odyssey.”

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