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No events found. Go ahead and add an event. Past eventsTerese Svoboda (March 3 at 7:30pm)
Alan Drew (March 5 at 7:30pm)
Michael Patrick MacDonald (March 7 at 7:30pm)
Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein (March 10 at 7:30pm) Thomas Cathcart reads from Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington.; Daniel Klein reads from Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington.
Brian Kurth (March 11 at 7:30pm)
Joshilyn Jackson (March 12 at 7:30pm)
Philip P Fradkin (March 13 at 7:30pm)
Robert Birkby (March 14 at 7:30pm) Robert Birkby reads from Mountain Madness: Scott Fischer, Mount Everest & a Life Lived on High.
Fred Krupp (March 16 at 7:30pm)
Laura Lippman (March 17 at 7:30pm) Laura Lippman reads from Another Thing to Fall (Tess Monaghan Series).
Michael Connery (March 18 at 7:30pm)
Scott Heim (March 19 at 7:30pm)
Smallpresspalooza (March 20 at 5:00pm) This special five-hour event will feature 15-minute readings by 15 of the most exciting small press voices in Portland. See the Powell’s Event Calendar for details. Richard Price (March 24 at 7:30pm)
Joshua Ferris (March 25 at 7:30pm)
Eric Alterman (March 27 at 7:30pm)
Alison Larkin (March 28 at 7:30pm)
Susan Beal (April 7 at 7:30pm) Jewelry patterns that can be customized with a variety of beads and stringing materials
Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) Writing Workshop (April 8 at 7:30pm) 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Based on the successful W.A.P. model, this dynamic workshop incorporates exercises designed to inspire the writing life. Group members will have an opportunity to read their work at a local event to cap ... (more)Loretta Napoleoni (April 8 at 7:30pm)
Jim Hightower (April 9 at 7:00pm) Jim Hightower reads from Swim against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go with the Flow . Please note: This ticketed event takes place at the Bagdad Theater. Tickets, $25.95, include admission and a copy of Swim against the Current, and are available at the Bagdad Theater box office, the Crystal Ballroom box office, Ticketmaster.com, and all Ticketmaster outlets. Jim Hightower, the New ... (more)Event location: Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
June Casagrande (April 9 at 7:30pm) Having already made a name for herself with Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies (now in its fifth printing), June Casagrande returns with Mortal Syntax (Penguin), taking on the 101 most frequently attacked usage choices. Dedicating one short chapter to each, Casagrande brings her subject to life, teaching ... (more)Karen Joy Fowler (April 10 at 7:00pm)
Jeff Gordinier (April 10 at 7:30pm)
Gary W. Moore (April 11 at 7:30pm)
Daoud Hari (April 14 at 7:30pm) Daoud Hari reads from The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur. The Translator was a LibraryThing Early Review selection. The Translator (Random House) is a suspenseful, harrowing, and deeply moving memoir of how one person has made a difference in the world — an on-the-ground account of one of the biggest stories of our time. While others around him were taking ... (more)Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) Writing Workshop (April 15 at 7:30pm) 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Based on the successful W.A.P. model, this dynamic workshop incorporates exercises designed to inspire the writing life. Group members will have an opportunity to read their work at a local event to cap ... (more)David Rothkopf (April 15 at 7:30pm)
Tobias Wolff (April 17 at 7:30pm)
Bill Press (April 18 at 7:30pm) Bill Press reads from Trainwreck: The End of the Conservative Revolution .
Three Authors (April 20 at 7:30pm)
Doug Fine (April 21 at 7:30pm) NPR's rural guy, Doug Fine, vows to give up modern conveniences to move to a ranch in New Mexico where he'll grown all his own food — never mind that he has no practical experience or mechanical skills.
Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) Writing Workshop (April 22 at 7:30pm) 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Based on the successful W.A.P. model, this dynamic workshop incorporates exercises designed to inspire the writing life. Group members will have an opportunity to read their work at a local event to cap ... (more)Oregon Author (April 22 at 7:30pm)
Marya Hornbacher (April 24 at 7:30pm)
Jen Sorensen (April 25 at 7:30pm) The third book-length collection from award-winning cartoonist Jen Sorensen features her best work from 2004 to 2008.
Lynne Rossetto Kasper , Sally Swift (April 26 at 3:00pm) Lynne Rossetto Kasper reads from The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories and Opinions from Public Radio's Award-Winning Food Show.; Sally Swift reads from The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories and Opinions from Public Radio's Award-Winning Food Show. Tickets $35, including admission and a copy of The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper. Event location: Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Floyd Skloot (April 27 at 7:30pm)
Kevin Phillips (April 28 at 7:00pm) Kevin Phillips reads from Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism. Tickets $26, including admission and a copy of Bad Money. Event location: Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Pico Iyer (April 28 at 7:30pm) Pico Iyer reads from The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama . Pico Iyer is the author of six works of nonfiction and two novels. He has covered the Tibetan question for Time, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and many other publications for more than twenty years.
Marc Acito (April 29 at 7:00pm) Marc Acito reads from Attack of the Theater People. Tickets $11.95, including admission and a copy of Attack of the Theater People. Event location: Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) Writing Workshop (April 29 at 7:30pm) 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Based on the successful W.A.P. model, this dynamic workshop incorporates exercises designed to inspire the writing life. Group members will have an opportunity to read their work at a local event to cap ... (more)Mary Roach (April 29 at 7:30pm) Mary Roach reads from Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex.
Jared Bernstein (April 30 at 7:30pm) Jared Bernstein reads from Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed? (and Other Unsolved Economic Mysteries).
First Thursday (May 1 at 6:30pm) Reception at 6:30, followed by a book talk at 7:30.
Clotilde Dusoulier (May 2 at 7:30pm) The author, a native Parisian and passionate explorer of the city's food scene, reveals her all-time favorite food experiences in her native city.
Alice Feiring (May 3 at 2:00pm) Alice Feiring reads from The Battle for Wine and Love, or How I Saved the World from Parkerization. Co-sponsored by the Portland Indie Wine Festival, which takes place May 2-4. Willy Vlautin (May 4 at 7:30pm)
Rebecca Woolf (May 5 at 7:30pm)
Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) Writing Workshop (May 6 at 7:30pm) 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Based on the successful W.A.P. model, this dynamic workshop incorporates exercises designed to inspire the writing life. Group members will have an opportunity to read their work at a local event to cap ... (more)Cristina Garcia (May 6 at 7:30pm)
Siri Hustvedt (May 7 at 7:30pm)
Aleksandar Hemon (May 8 at 7:30pm)
Ashraf Ghani, Clare Lockhart (May 9 at 7:30pm)
William J. Bernstein (May 11 at 7:30pm)
Mark Sarvas (May 12 at 7:30pm)
Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) Writing Workshop (May 13 at 7:30pm) 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Based on the successful W.A.P. model, this dynamic workshop incorporates exercises designed to inspire the writing life. Group members will have an opportunity to read their work at a local event to cap ... (more)Taras Grescoe (May 13 at 7:30pm) Taras Grescoe reads from Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood.
John Kroger (May 14 at 7:30pm) John Kroger reads from Convictions: A Prosecutor's Battles against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins, and Enron Thieves.
Will Durst (May 16 at 7:30pm) Will Durst reads from The All-American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing.
Live Wire! (May 17 at 7:00pm) Live Wire! is a radio variety show recorded in front of a live audience at the Aladdin Theater and broadcast on Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB). The May 17th show features special guests QUASI, which is accumulating material for its next album and may perform new songs; Marc Acito, author of the new ... (more)Event location: Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. (503) 233-1994
In the Blast Zone: Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helens (May 18 at 4:00pm) Editors Charles Goodrich, Kathleen Dean Moore, and Frederick Swanson are joined by contributors Kim Stafford and Ursula K. Le Guin at this special Mount St. Helen's anniversary event.
Jen Lancaster (May 19 at 7:30pm)
This event is sold out! (May 20 at 7:00pm) Tickets, $26, include admission and a copy of The Host. Event location: Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) Writing Workshop (May 20 at 7:30pm) 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Based on the successful W.A.P. model, this dynamic workshop incorporates exercises designed to inspire the writing life. Group members will have an opportunity to read their work at a local event to cap ... (more)James Frey & Josh Kilmer-Purcell (May 21 at 7:00pm) Tickets, $27, include admission and a copy of Bright Shiny Morning. Event location: Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Chris Bohjalian (May 21 at 7:30pm)
Jeffrey Alford & Naomi Duguid (May 21 at 7:30pm)
Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) Writing Workshop (May 27 at 7:30pm) 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Based on the successful W.A.P. model, this dynamic workshop incorporates exercises designed to inspire the writing life. Group members will have an opportunity to read their work at a local event to cap ... (more)Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) Writing Workshop (June 3 at 7:30pm) 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Based on the successful W.A.P. model, this dynamic workshop incorporates exercises designed to inspire the writing life. Group members will have an opportunity to read their work at a local event to cap ... (more)John Perkins (June 6 at 7:30pm) John Perkins reads from The Secret History of the American Empire.
Robert Thurman (June 7 at 3:00pm) This ticketed event takes place at the Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Tickets, $24, include admission and a copy of Why the Dalai Lama Matters, and are available at the Bagdad Theater box office, the Crystal Ballroom box office, Ticketmaster.com, and all Ticketmaster outlets. Books will be distributed ... (more)Event location: Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Russell Banks (June 8 at 7:30pm)
Richard Bausch (June 9 at 7:30pm)
Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) Writing Workshop (June 10 at 7:30pm) 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Based on the successful W.A.P. model, this dynamic workshop incorporates exercises designed to inspire the writing life. Group members will have an opportunity to read their work at a local event to cap ... (more)Dalia Sofer (June 10 at 7:30pm)
Black Pride Poetry Slam (June 12 at 7:00pm) Unity Project of Oregon kicks off Portland's yearly Black Pride Celebration with Speak Up! Speak Out! Poetry Slam! The evening will feature Seattle's Voices Rising, an exciting collection of artists who represent the best of LGBT-of-color arts and culture, and Washington, D.C.'s RedBone Press, which ... (more)George Lakoff (June 12 at 7:00pm) Tickets, $26, include admission and a copy of The Political Mind, and are available at the Bagdad Theater box office, the Crystal Ballroom box office, Ticketmaster.com, and all Ticketmaster outlets. Books will be distributed at the event. Event location: Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Tickets, $26
David Sirota (June 13 at 7:30pm)
Jeremy Scahill (June 15 at 7:30pm) An extraordinary exposé by one of America's young radical journalists, Jeremy Scahill, Blackwater (Nation Books), now in paperback, details the rise of a powerful mercenary army in a dark story that ranges from the blood-soaked streets of Fallujah to the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast to Washington, D.C., ... (more)Jonathan Miles (June 25 at 7:30pm)
Don Mankin (June 26 at 7:30pm)
Peter Bagge (June 27 at 7:30pm) This event is cosponsored by Pacific Northwest College of Art, which hosts its Graphic Novel Intensive Workshop June 21-29.
Darin Strauss (June 30 at 7:30pm)
Laurie Notaro (July 1 at 7:30pm)
Rick Shenkman (July 2 at 7:30pm)
Johan Bruyneel (July 8 at 7:30pm) We Might As Well Win goes behind the scenes and inside the mind of Johan Bruyneel, the most successful team director in cycling history and the strategist, confidant, motivator, and coach behind Lance Armstrong's amazing success.
Leif Enger, Lin Enger (July 9 at 7:30pm)
David Wroblewski (July 10 at 7:30pm)
Dirty Words (July 11 at 7:30pm) Edited by Ellen Sussman, Dirty Words (Bloomsbury) is a playful take on bedroom talk — a smart, funny encyclopedia with entries written by notable contemporary writers, including guests Elissa Schappell (Use Me) and Maria Dahvana Headley (The Year of Yes). Dirty Words includes everything you need to ... (more)Noelle Oxenhandler (July 14 at 7:30pm)
J. Maarten Troost (July 15 at 7:30pm) J. Maarten Troost, the bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals, returns with Lost on Planet China (Broadway Books), a sharply observed, hilarious account of his adventures in China.
Barbara Ehrenreich (July 16 at 7:30pm)
Eoin Colfer (July 20 at 3:00pm) Event location: Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Tickets, $5, are available at the Bagdad Theater box office, the Crystal Ballroom box office, Ticketmaster.com
Geoff Hollister (July 21 at 7:00pm) Geoff Hollister reads from Out of Nowhere: The Inside Story of How Nike Marketed the Culture of Running . Out of Nowhere takes the reader along on Geoff Hollister's 33-year journey from humble beginnings to selling shoes out of the trunk of his car to the center of Nike, the company that would change not only the world of athletic shoes and apparel but the business of sports itself.
Ethan Canin (July 22 at 7:30pm) From Ethan Canin, the bestselling author of The Palace Thief and Carry Me across the Water, comes America America, a stunning novel set in a small town spanning the Nixon-era through today, about a great family, a political tragedy, and the impact of fate on history.
Dagmar Herzog (July 23 at 7:30pm) Americans may not be anti-sex, but they're increasingly anxious about sex — largely due to the tactics of the Religious Right. Fierce, witty, and brilliant, Dagmar Herzog's Sex in Crisis demands that America confront its national sexual dysfunction.
Writer's Edge Faculty Reading (July 25 at 7:30pm) Fiction Collective Two — an author-run, not-for-profit publisher of artistically adventurous, non-traditional fiction — introduces the Writer's Edge, the first and only writers' workshop dedicated to the practice of innovative writing. Tonight's reading features Lance Olsen (Nietzsche's Kisses), ... (more)Alafair Burke (July 25 at 7:30pm)
Live Wire! (July 26 at 7:00pm) Live Wire! is an independently produced radio variety show recorded in front of a live audience at the Aladdin Theater and broadcast on Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB). The July 26th show features writer and comedian Michael Ian Black ("My Custom Van...and 50 Other Mind-Blowing Essays That Will Blow ... (more)Event location: Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., Portland, 503-233-1994
Calyx Press's 32nd Anniversary (July 28 at 7:30pm) Calyx, the independent, nonprofit publisher of contemporary writing and art by women from a diversity of backgrounds, celebrates its 32nd anniversary with a reading from contributors to the July issue of Calyx Journal, including National Book Award winner Ursula K. Le Guin, Frances Payne Adler, Paulann ... (more)Jonathan Evison (July 29 at 7:30pm) Weakness has always been a concern for William Miller, but he is further weakened by his irrepressible crush on his new stepsister, Lulu. Once Lulu departs for college, Will attempts to find himself — discovering Western philosophy, a cruel dating world, and, ultimately, his true calling.
Brad Hudson (July 30 at 7:30pm) Brad Hudson reads from Run Faster: From the 5k to the Marathon. With Run Faster: From the 5k to the Marathon, Brad Hudson — former Olympic-trials marathoner and current coach to Olympians — enables runners to do for themselves what top coaches do for their athletes: custom-tailor their training plans. With Hudson's guidance, runners can avoid injury and ... (more)Doug Dorst (July 31 at 7:30pm) Alive in Necropolis is Doug Dorst's fresh, imaginative debut novel about a young police officer in northern California struggling to keep the peace — and maintain a grip on reality — in a town where the dead outnumber the living.
Breaking Dawn Midnight Release (August 1 at 6:00pm) On Friday, August 1, Powell's will host Bella's Ball, a midnight release party celebrating Breaking Dawn, the long-awaited fourth book in the Stephanie Meyer's Twilight Saga. Come to Powell's City of Books for fun and games. Enter the costume contest. Dance to a DJ. Donate blood at a Red Cross ... (more)Ann Patchett (August 4 at 7:30pm) Set over a period of 24 hours, Run, the latest novel from Ann Patchett, bestselling author of Bel Canto, shows how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexist only blocks apart from each other, and how family can include the most unlikely people.
Kate Veitch (August 6 at 7:30pm) Presenting a new voice in the tradition of Anne Tyler and Anita Shreve, Kate Veitch's debut novel Without a Backward Glance reveals the joy and sorrow, the complexity and ambiguity of family life, and poignantly probes what it means to love and what it means to leave.
John Domini (August 11 at 7:30pm) A Tomb on the Periphery (Gival Press) echoes the troubled Naples of author John Domini's highly praised novel Earthquake I.D., but with an entirely new tale. Part crime story, part ghost story, part coming of age, part redemption song, Tomb is about Italy's underground market in ancient jewelry.
Luke Warm Water, Trevino L. Brings Plenty (August 12 at 7:30pm) Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets (Michigan State University Press) brings together a quartet of acclaimed Sioux poets — Joel Waters, Steve Pacheco, Luke Warm Water, and Trevino L. Brings Plenty — to grapple with their heritage, wrestling with what it means to be a Sioux and a Skin today. Poets ... (more)
Amanda Boyden (August 13 at 7:30pm) From Amanda Boyden, author of Pretty Little Dirty, comes Babylon Rolling (Pantheon), a gritty, unflinching story about the clash of race and culture in the intersecting lives of five families who call the same New Orleans street home.
Thomas Frank (August 14 at 7:30pm) From Thomas Frank, the author of the landmark bestseller What's the Matter with Kansas? comes The Wrecking Crew (Metropolitan Books), a jaw-dropping investigation of the decades of deliberate — and lucrative — conservative misrule.
Larry Crane (August 15 at 7:30pm) Larry Crane reads from Tape Op: The Book about Creative Music Recording, Vol. II . Edited by Larry Crane, Tape Op: The Book about Creative Music Recording, Vol. II (Tape Op) collects over 70 interviews and articles from the independent Tape Op magazine, circa 1999-2000. Creativity, technique, equipment, and passion collide in these pieces about and featuring Ani DiFranco, Death Cab ... (more)Dirk Wittenborn (August 18 at 7:30pm) In Dirk Wittenborn's Pharmakon (Viking), William Friedrich, an ambitious professor of psychology at Yale in 1952, stumbles upon a drug that promises happiness. When his experiment goes awry and a research subject commits murder, the consequences will haunt him and his family forever.
Janice Marschner (August 19 at 7:30pm) The essential Oregon guide for time travelers of all ages. An inspiring, close-up portrait at the moment of statehood featuring maps, biographical sketches of notable figures, and historical photographs, Janice Marschner's Oregon 1859 (Timber Press) will light the way back for anyone who wants to see ... (more)Win McCormack (August 22 at 7:30pm) Shocking, illuminating, and profoundly disturbing, Win McCormack's You Don't Know Me (Tin House Books) details over one hundred cases of sexual misconduct by Republican officials, office holders, and ideological supporters. Win McCormack is publisher and editor-in-chief of Tin House magazine.
Alafair Burke (August 25 at 7:30pm) When fresh-faced college student Chelsea Hart is found murdered in East River Park, her wavy blond hair brutally hacked off, NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher catches the case — and finds herself under the watchful eye of a psychopath eager to add the prideful young female detective to his list of victims. ... (more)Frank B. Wilderson (August 26 at 7:30pm) In 1995, a South African journalist informed Frank B. Wilderson, one of only two black American members of the African National Congress (ANC), that President Nelson Mandela considered him "a threat to national security." Incognegro (South End Press) is Wilderson's "comment." A literary tour de force ... (more)Daniel H. Wilson (August 28 at 7:30pm) Geek meets chic in The Mad Scientist Hall of Fame (Citadel), Daniel H. Wilson's (How to Survive a Robot Uprising) and Anna C. Long's stylish, informative guide to the most outrageous, brilliant, and fascinating mad scientists — both real and fictional — and their diabolical inventions.
Chelsea Cain (September 2 at 7:30pm) With her bestselling thriller Heartsick, Chelsea Cain took the crime world by storm, introducing two of the most compelling characters in decades: serial killer Gretchen Lowell and her obsessed pursuer, Portland Detective Archie Sheridan. Lowell and Sheridan's stories continue in the terrifying ... (more)Josh Frank (September 3 at 7:30pm) Josh Frank's In Heaven Everything Is Fine (Free Press) presents a riveting examination of Peter Ivers, the visionary host of the 1980s cult-favorite cable show New Wave Theatre, and his brutal unsolved murder.
Bike Commute Workshop (September 5 at 5:30pm) It's time to gear up for the 2008 Bike Commute Challenge, the Bicycle Transportation Alliance's friendly workplace-to-workplace competition to see who can get more employees biking to work. The BTA's Bike Commute Workshops are a great first step toward bike commuting. Join us at 5:30 p.m. to learn more ... (more)Slavoj Zizek (September 9 at 7:30pm) With Violence (Picador), philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in the world.
Thomas Hager (September 11 at 7:30pm) In The Alchemy of Air (Harmony), Thomas Hager recounts the story of the two men who found a solution to the eminent problem of global starvation at the turn of the 20th century. But their discovery came at a price: the same process they engineered into synthetic fertilizer was used to make the ... (more)James E. McWilliams (September 12 at 7:30pm) Inspired by the still-revolutionary theories of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, James E. McWilliams's American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT (Columbia University Press) argues for a more harmonious and rational approach to people's relationship with insects, ... (more)Benjamin Mee (September 15 at 7:30pm) In the tradition of Marley and Me comes Benjamin Mee's We Bought a Zoo: The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals That Changed Their Lives Forever (Weinstein Books), an unforgettable memoir about the mysteries of the animal kingdom, the power ... (more)Prompt: A Write Around Portland Writing Workshop (September 16 at 6:30pm) Join Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) for Prompt, a 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Based on the successful W.A.P. model, this dynamic workshop incorporates exercises designed to inspire the writing life. Group members will have an opportunity ... (more)Neal Stephenson (September 16 at 7:00pm) Anathem (William Morrow & Company), the latest invention of Neal Stephenson, the New York Times-bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, is a magnificent creation: a work of great scope, intelligence, and imagination that ushers readers into a recognizable -- yet ... (more) Event location: Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
John Shors (September 18 at 7:30pm) From master storyteller John Shors, author of Beneath a Marble Sky, comes Beside a Burning Sea (New American Library), a new novel that follows a man and a woman from separate worlds, as the barbarity of war looms in the distance.
Paul Auster (September 19 at 7:30pm) A new novel with a dark political twist, Paul Auster's Man in the Dark (Henry Holt) is the story of 72-year-old August Brill, who is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back ... (more)Live Wire! (September 20 at 7:00pm) Sean Wilsey reads from State by State: a Panoramic Portrait of America. Live Wire! is an independently produced radio variety show recorded in front of a live audience at the Aladdin Theater and broadcast on Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB). The September 20th show features special guests Sean Wilsey (co-editor of State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America) and ... (more)Event location: Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., (503) 233-1994
Chuck Klosterman (September 21 at 7:30pm) Downtown Owl (Scribner), the first novel by bestselling author Chuck Klosterman (Fargo Rock City), combines an irresistible portrait of Midwestern small-town life with his own remarkable sense of humor.
Out of the Book, Volume 3: State by State (September 22 at 7:00pm) Sean Wilsey reads from State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America. State by State, a collection of 50 original essays, resurrects a landmark effort from the 1930s when the Federal Writers' Project commissioned America's best authors "to describe America to Americans." What do we talk about when we talk about our states? Join Live Wire's Courtenay Hameister, State ... (more) Event location: Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. (503) 236-9234
Irvine Welsh (September 22 at 7:30pm) From Powells.com: Irvine (Trainspotting) Welsh's sizzling new novel, Crime (W. W. Norton), is a thrilling journey into the bright glamour of the Sunshine State and a seething underworld of utter darkness, in a shocking story about the corruption and abuse of the human soul. "Welsh applies his singular ... (more)Prompt: A Write Around Portland Writing Workshop (September 23 at 6:30pm) Join Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) for Prompt, a 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Based on the successful W.A.P. model, this dynamic workshop incorporates exercises designed to inspire the writing life. Group members will have an opportunity ... (more)Prompt: A Write Around Portland Writing Workshop (September 30 at 6:30pm) Join Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) for Prompt, a 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Based on the successful W.A.P. model, this dynamic workshop incorporates exercises designed to inspire the writing life. Group members will have an opportunity ... (more)Prompt: A Write Around Portland Writing Workshop (October 7 at 6:30pm) Join Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) for Prompt, a 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Based on the successful W.A.P. model, this dynamic workshop incorporates exercises designed to inspire the writing life. Group members will have an opportunity ... (more)Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards (October 8 at 7:30pm) In Abortion and Life, author and activist Jennifer Baumgardner reveals how the most controversial and stigmatized Supreme Court decision of our time cuts across eras, classes, and race. In Opting In, Amy Richards addresses the anxiety over parenting that many women face, in a book that ... (more)Peter H. Fogtdal (October 9 at 7:30pm) Soerine, a deformed female dwarf from Denmark, is given as a gift to Tsar Peter the Great, who is smitten by her freakishness and intellect. Peter H. Fogtdal's The Tsar's Dwarf is a masterfully told and brilliantly translated novel about aberration, endurance, and the human condition.
Deborah Copaken Kogan (October 10 at 7:30pm)
Deborah Copaken Kogan (October 10 at 7:30pm) Between Here and April, the haunting debut novel from Deborah Copaken Kogan (author of Shutterbabe), tells the story of Elizabeth Burns, who becomes obsessed with the long-ago murder of her childhood friend April Cassidy. What she uncovers leads her back to her own life -- and what it means to ... (more)
Marcella Hazan (October 12 at 3:00pm) In Amarcord: Marcella Remembers, beloved teacher and bestselling cookbook author Marcella Hazan tells how a young girl raised in Emilia-Romagna became America's godmother of Italian cooking. Widely credited with introducing proper Italian food to the English-speaking world, Hazan, now 84, looks ... (more)Kay Gardiner , Ann Shayne (October 13 at 7:30pm) Kay Gardiner reads from Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines: Patterns, Stories, Pictures, True Confessions, Tricky Bits, Whole New Worlds, an.; Ann Shayne reads from Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines: Patterns, Stories, Pictures, True Confessions, Tricky Bits, Whole New Worlds, and. Mason Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines, the much-anticipated companion to Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne's bestselling Mason Dixon Knitting, features a new batch of addictive patterns and cheerful mayhem -- from the duo who reinvented the knitting-pattern book by combining beautiful knitting ... (more)
Prompt: A Write Around Portland Writing Workshop (October 14 at 6:30pm) Join Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) for Prompt, a 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Based on the successful W.A.P. model, this dynamic workshop incorporates exercises designed to inspire the writing life. Group members will have an opportunity ... (more)Sarah Vowell (October 14 at 7:00pm) From the New York Times-bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot comes The Wordy Shipmates, an examination of the Puritans, their covenant communities, their deep-rooted idealism, their political and cultural relevance in today's world, and their ... (more)Event location: Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Tickets, $25, include admission and a copy of The Wordy Shipmates, and are available at the Bagdad Theater box
Camille Cusumano (October 14 at 7:30pm) Overwhelmed with the pain of a failed 15-year relationship, Camille Cusumano took off for Buenos Aires intending to stay a few short weeks -- but when her search for inner peace met with her true passion for tango, she realized she'd need to stay in Argentina indefinitely. Tango (Seal Press) is a memoir ... (more)Betty Fussell (October 15 at 7:30pm) In Raising Steaks, Betty Fussell saddles up for a spirited ride across America on the trail of our most iconic food. Fussell finds that when we bite into a steak's charred crust and pink interior, we bite into contradictions that have branded our national identity from the start.
Paul Bannick (October 16 at 7:30pm) In his vivid new book, The Owl and the Woodpecker, photographer and naturalist Paul Bannick examines the diversity of these two families of birds and the ways in which they define and enrich the ecosystems they inhabit.
Live Wire! (October 17 at 7:00pm) Live Wire! is an independently produced radio variety show recorded in front of a live audience at the Aladdin Theater and broadcast on Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB). The October 17th show is crammed with special guests, including Berkeley Breathed, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who created ... (more)Event location: Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. (503) 233-1994
Shalom Auslander (October 17 at 7:30pm) In Foreskin's Lament, his bitingly funny memoir of growing up in a dysfunctional Jewish family and wrestling with a vengeful God, Shalom Auslander's combination of unrelenting humor and anger renders a rich and fascinating portrait of a man grappling with his faith, his family, and his community.
Thom Hartmann (October 19 at 7:30pm) According to Air America radio host Thom Hartmann, the apologists of the Right have become masters of the subtle and subconscious aspects of political communication. Conservatives didn't invent the path to persuasive messaging, and, as Hartmann shows in Cracking the Code (Berrett-Koehler), there ... (more)Prompt: A Write Around Portland Writing Workshop (October 21 at 6:30pm) Join Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) for Prompt, a 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Based on the successful W.A.P. model, this dynamic workshop incorporates exercises designed to inspire the writing life. Group members will have an opportunity ... (more)Prompt: A Write Around Portland Writing Workshop (October 28 at 6:30pm) Join Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) for Prompt, a 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Based on the successful W.A.P. model, this dynamic workshop incorporates exercises designed to inspire the writing life. Group members will have an opportunity ... (more)Prompt: A Write Around Portland Writing Workshop (November 4 at 6:30pm) Join Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) for Prompt, a 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Based on the successful W.A.P. model, this dynamic workshop incorporates exercises designed to inspire the writing life. Group members will have an opportunity ... (more)Prompt: A Write Around Portland Writing Workshop (November 11 at 6:30pm) Join Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) for Prompt, a 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Based on the successful W.A.P. model, this dynamic workshop incorporates exercises designed to inspire the writing life. Group members will have an opportunity ... (more)Rolf Potts (November 11 at 7:30pm) Marco Polo Didn't Go There is a collection of rollicking travel tales from Rolf Potts, a young writer whom USA Today has called "Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age." Potts documents his funniest and most hair-raising trips, from getting stranded in the Libyan desert without water to learning the ... (more)
Kerry Cohen (November 12 at 7:30pm) Written with raw humor and unflinching honesty, Love Junkie (Bloomsbury) charts Rachel Resnick's harrowing emotional journey from destructive love to intimacy, from despair to hope.
Interested: bhaggy Added by oregonobsessionz. Amitav Ghosh (November 13 at 7:30pm) At the heart of Amitav Ghosh's vibrant saga, Sea of Poppies, is a vast ship, the Ibis, whose destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, and whose purpose is to fight China's vicious 19th-century Opium Wars.
Couch: A Novel (November 14 at 7:30pm) In Couch, a "delightfully lighthearted" (Publishers Weekly) debut novel reminiscent of Life of Pi and Then We Came to the End, an episode of furniture moving gone awry becomes an impromptu quest of self-discovery, secret histories, and unexpected revelations.
Alicia Paulson (November 16 at 7:30pm) In Stitched in Time, Alicia Paulson, the creator of the popular blog Posie Gets Cozy, offers easy and creative ideas to showcase memorabilia, photographs, and personal details that celebrate the special events in a person's life. Whether you want to remember your family summers at the beach or ... (more)VoiceCatcher 3 (November 17 at 7:30pm) From the thriving literary community in Portland, VoiceCatcher 3 (Lulu Press) presents new prose and poetry by award-winning and emerging women writers, including Emily Kendal Frey, Sarah Bartlett, FeLicia Elam, Sandra Sakurai, Tiel Aisha Ansari, and Patricia Kullberg.
Prompt: A Write Around Portland Writing Workshop (November 18 at 6:30pm) Join Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) for Prompt, a 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Based on the successful W.A.P. model, this dynamic workshop incorporates exercises designed to inspire the writing life. Group members will have an opportunity ... (more)Journalists Discuss Free Speech and the Internet (November 18 at 7:30pm) American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the bookseller's voice in the fight against censorship, presents a free-wheeling discussion of citizen journalism and the limits of free speech, featuring guests Ian Gillingham, an editor at Willamette Week, and Kevin Kono, attorney for Davis ... (more)Ingrid Newkirk (November 19 at 7:30pm) In One Can Make a Difference, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) co-founder Ingrid Newkirk has collected the wisdom, stories, and insight of more than 50 activists and world-changers who have proven that one person can create a movement. Through fascinating stories and advice, ... (more)Laura Foster (November 20 at 7:30pm) Laura Foster reads from Portland City Walks: Twenty Explorations in and Around Town. From the inspired creator of the beloved Portland Hill Walks comes Portland City Walks, a rich collection of 20 eye-opening walks exploring the backstreets and back stories of the neighborhoods of Portland and five nearby towns. Laura Foster's new walking routes are easy to follow, self-guided, ... (more)Peter N. Carroll, Peter Glazer (November 21 at 7:30pm) James Neugass, an American ambulance driver in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled his service as a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. War Is Beautiful, the newly discovered journal of his experience on the front lines, is being published for the first time.
Donald Worster (November 23 at 7:30pm) For anyone wishing to more fully understand America's first great environmentalist, John Muir, and the enormous influence he still exerts today, Donald Worster's biography A Passion for Nature offers a wealth of insight into the passionate nature of a man whose passion for nature remains unsurpassed.
Lloyd Kahn (November 24 at 7:30pm) A continuation of Lloyd Kahn's journeys into the creative processes of owner-built homes, Builders of the Pacific Coast explores the aesthetics and skills of three master builders in California, Washington state, and the rugged terrain of British Columbia. With stunning color and black-and-white ... (more)Wild Beauty: Photographs of the Columbia River Gorge (December 2 at 7:30pm) Terry Toedtemeier reads from Wild Beauty: Photographs of the Columbia River Gorge, 1867-1957. The Columbia River Gorge exerts a powerful influence on the lives and imaginations of the inhabitants of the Pacific Northwest. In Wild Beauty, Terry Toedtemeier and John Laursen have selected more than 130 images - most of them previously unpublished and many of them never before available for ... (more)The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 3 (December 3 at 7:30pm) Since it was founded in 1953, The Paris Review has offered uncommon candor, depth, and wit in interviews that have become the gold standard of the literary Q&A. Edited by Philip Gourevitch, The Paris Review Interviews, Volume III presents another eclectic lineup, including Raymond Carver, ... (more)J. A. Jance (December 7 at 2:00pm) From New York Times-bestselling author J. A. Jance comes Cruel Intent, a chilling tale of suspense, where romance turns deadly. Ex-anchorwoman Ali Reynolds finds herself in the midst of more than just a house renovation when the project is interrupted by a brutal murder... and the killer may be ... (more)Steve Fainaru (December 8 at 7:30pm) Washington Post reporter Steve Fainaru traveled with several groups of security contractors to find out what motivates them to put their lives in danger every day. What emerges in Big Boy Rules is a searing, revealing, and sometimes darkly funny look at the men who live and work on the ... (more)
Thom Hartmann (December 10 at 7:30pm) According to Air America radio host Thom Hartmann, the apologists of the Right have become masters of the subtle and subconscious aspects of political communication. But conservatives didn't invent the path to persuasive messaging, and, as Hartmann shows in Cracking the Code, there is no reason ... (more)Nami Mun (January 5 at 7:30pm) See the Powell's Event Calendar for more details.
Dr. Lisa H. Weasel (January 7 at 7:30pm)
Jon Raymond (January 8 at 7:30pm)
Philip Niles (January 9 at 7:30pm) Philip Niles reads from Beauty of the City: A. E. Doyle, Portland's Architect..
Faythe Levine (January 11 at 7:30pm) This event is sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Craft. Joining Levine are contributing writer, Susan Beal; featured artist, Jill Bliss; as well as the illustrator for the book, Kate Bingaman-Burt.
Interested: themissiah Added by Ambrosia4. Jayne Anne Phillips (January 12 at 7:30pm)
William L. Iggiagruk Hensley (January 13 at 7:30pm)
Steven Johnson (January 14 at 7:30pm)
Mark Bittman (January 15 at 7:30pm)
Karen Karbo, Melanie Thernstrom (January 16 at 7:30pm) Karen Karbo reads from The Secret Currency of Love: The Unabashed Truth about Women, Money, and Relationships.; Melanie Thernstrom reads from The Secret Currency of Love: The Unabashed Truth about Women, Money, and Relationships.
John Witte, Ana Callan (January 18 at 4:00pm)
Cristy Road, Rhiannon Argo, Nicole Georges (January 18 at 7:30pm)
Geraldine Brooks (January 18 at 7:30pm)
Janice Y. K. Lee (January 20 at 7:30pm)
Adam Shepard (January 22 at 7:30pm)
Gar Alperovitz, Lew Daly (January 23 at 7:30pm)
Matt Miller (January 26 at 7:30pm)
Michele Ulriksen (January 27 at 7:30pm)
Melissa Rossi (January 28 at 7:30pm)
Hannah Holmes (January 29 at 7:30pm)
Temple Grandin (February 2 at 7:00pm) With the groundbreaking Animals In Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her distinguished career as an animal scientist to deliver extraordinary insights into how animals think. Now, in Animals Make Us Human, she builds on those insights to show ... (more)Event location: Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Tickets, $26, include admission and a copy of Animals Make Us Human
Larry Smith, Rachel Fershleiser (February 2 at 7:30pm) From Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser, the editors of the New York Times bestseller Not Quite What I Was Planning, comes another collection of terse, true tales. Filled with simple sagas exploring the complexities of the human heart, Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak contains hundreds ... (more)Lauren Groff (February 4 at 7:30pm) From Lauren Groff, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton, comes Delicate Edible Birds, a collection of nine literary short stories of astonishing insight and variety, each revealing a resonant drama within the life of a 20th-century American woman.
John Gibler (February 6 at 7:30pm) Mexico Unconquered is an evocative report on the powers of violence and corruption in Mexico and the rebel underdogs who put their lives on the line to build justice from the ground up. John Gibler weaves narrative journalism with lyrical descriptions, combining the journalist's trade of walking ... (more)
Bethlehem Shoals (February 9 at 7:30pm) Over the past four years, FreeDarko has established itself as the Web's smartest, most literate basketball outlet — analyzing the rules, styles, and rosters of the NBA with the devotion of Talmudic scholars. Bethlehem Shoals (aka Nathaniel Friedman), FreeDarko's Chief Operative, gives us FreeDarko ... (more), a one-of-a-kind illustrated companion to today's NBA that casts an entirely new light on one of America's favorite sports. Jonah Lehrer (February 10 at 7:30pm) From the acclaimed author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist comes How We Decide, a fascinating look at the new science of decision-making. Jonah Lehrer explores two questions: How does the human mind make decisions, and how can those decisions be made better?
William Kleinknecht (February 11 at 7:30pm) The myth of Ronald Reagan's greatness has reached epic proportions in recent years. But, in The Man Who Sold the World, award-winning journalist William Kleinknecht presents a penetrating analysis of Reagan's presidency, showing how his legacy has been devastating for the country — especially ... (more)Debra Gwartney (February 12 at 7:30pm) As emotionally wrenching and ultimately redemptive as David Sheff's Beautiful Boy, Live through This follows Debra Gwartney's frantic effort to recover her beautiful, intelligent daughters from their lives on the street.
Live Wire! (February 13 at 7:00pm) Live Wire! is an independently produced radio variety show recorded in front of a live audience at the Aladdin Theater and broadcast on Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB). Kicking off its '09 season, and just in time for Valentine's Day, the February 13th show features special guests Thom Hartmann, host ... (more)Event location: Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. (503) 233-1994
Celebrating Oregon's 150th Birthday (February 13 at 7:30pm) Nestucca Spit Press is proud to present its latest release, Matt Love's Citadel of the Spirit: Oregon's Sesquicentennial Anthology, in commemoration of Oregon's 150th birthday. The book contains 63 original essays by many of the state's finest writers and 61 excerpts from primary documents related ... (more)Come to Your Senses Day (February 15 at 7:30pm) Celebrate Come to Your Senses Day ( www.c2ysd.com ) with Courtenay Hameister, Laurie Winer, and Michele Gendelman, the contributors to What Was I Thinking?: 58 Bad Boyfriend Stories, a collection of first-person essays describing the moment in a relationship when, no matter how much you think ... (more)Yiyun Li (February 23 at 7:30pm) The Vagrants, the astonishing first novel from Yiyun Li, the author of the award-winning story collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, weaves together the delicate moments between mothers and sons, husbands and wives, illuminating the reality of oppression and pain.
Write Around Portland Writing Workshop (February 24 at 6:30pm) Join Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) for a 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Please note: This workshop will meet Tuesdays, February 24 through April 28, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Powell's City of Books. Advanced registration is required. ... (more)Azadeh Moaveni (February 24 at 7:30pm) Powerful and poignant, Azadeh Moaveni's Honeymoon in Tehran is a stirring, trenchant, and deeply personal chronicle of two years in the maelstrom of Iranian life. This event is co-sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Portland.
Abraham Verghese (February 25 at 7:30pm) Cutting for Stone is a stunning debut novel from Abraham Verghese, the author of My Own Country: an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, fathers and sons, doctors and patients, exile and home
Richard Seireeni (February 26 at 7:30pm) Richard Seireeni reads from The Gort Cloud: The Invisible Force Powering Today's Most Visible Green Brands.. Brand expert Richard Seireeni interviewed more than 30 "eco-capitalists" from a broad range of industries — and the result is "The Gort Cloud", a term that describes the vast and largely invisible network of NGOs, trend-spotters, advocacy groups, social networks, and other members of the green community ... (more)Stephen Mitchell (February 27 at 7:30pm) Enhanced by Stephen Mitchell's illuminating commentary, The Second Book of the Tao is the next volume of the classic manual on the art of living. A gift to contemporary readers, Mitchell's meditations and bold reimagining of the original texts make the ancient teachings at once modern, relevant, ... (more)G. Pascal Zachary (March 1 at 7:30pm) A warm and humorous tale that is as much about the marriage of two cultures as it is about two different personalities, G. Pascal Zachary's Married to Africa is an American man's touching story of falling in love with an African woman, the challenges they face, and the memory of Africa they never ... (more)Nikki McClure (March 2 at 7:30pm) All in a Day is a lovely book that illuminates all the possibilities a day offers -- the opportunities and chances that won't ever come again -- and also delivers a gentle message of good stewardship of our planet. Newbery Medal winner Cynthia Rylant's poetic text, alongside Nikki McClure's stunning, ... (more)
Write Around Portland Writing Workshop (March 3 at 6:30pm) Join Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) for a 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Please note: This workshop will meet Tuesdays, February 24 through April 28, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Powell's City of Books. Advanced registration is required. ... (more)Daniyal Mueenuddin (March 3 at 7:30pm) In the spirit of James Joyce's Dubliners, Daniyal Mueenuddin's collection of linked stories, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, illuminates a place and a people through an examination of the entwined lives of landowners and their retainers on the Gurmani family farm in Lahore, Pakistan.
Keith Donohue (March 4 at 7:30pm) The eagerly awaited follow-up from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Stolen Child. An unforgettable story about faith and fear, Keith Donohue's Angels of Destruction tells the mesmerizing story of Norah, a nine-year-old girl who seems to materialize out of thin air when she ... (more)Molly Wizenberg (March 6 at 7:30pm) In A Homemade Life, Molly Wizenberg, creator of the award-winning blog Orangette, brings readers a tender and touching memoir about life, love, loss, and food.
Write Around Portland Writing Workshop (March 10 at 6:30pm) Join Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) for a 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Please note: This workshop will meet Tuesdays, February 24 through April 28, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Powell's City of Books. Advanced registration is required. ... (more)Interested: AmyLynn Added by oregonobsessionz. Write Around Portland Writing Workshop (March 17 at 6:30pm) Join Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) for a 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Please note: This workshop will meet Tuesdays, February 24 through April 28, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Powell's City of Books. Advanced registration is required. ... (more)Write Around Portland Writing Workshop (March 24 at 6:30pm) Join Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) for a 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Please note: This workshop will meet Tuesdays, February 24 through April 28, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Powell's City of Books. Advanced registration is required. ... (more)Write Around Portland Writing Workshop (March 31 at 6:30pm) Join Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) for a 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Please note: This workshop will meet Tuesdays, February 24 through April 28, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Powell's City of Books. Advanced registration is required. ... (more)Write Around Portland Writing Workshop (April 7 at 6:30pm) Join Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) for a 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Please note: This workshop will meet Tuesdays, February 24 through April 28, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Powell's City of Books. Advanced registration is required. ... (more)Write Around Portland Writing Workshop (April 14 at 6:30pm) Join Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) for a 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Please note: This workshop will meet Tuesdays, February 24 through April 28, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Powell's City of Books. Advanced registration is required. ... (more)Write Around Portland Writing Workshop (April 21 at 6:30pm) Join Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) for a 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Please note: This workshop will meet Tuesdays, February 24 through April 28, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Powell's City of Books. Advanced registration is required. ... (more)Write Around Portland Writing Workshop (April 28 at 6:30pm) Join Write Around Portland (W.A.P.) for a 10-week seminar devoted to generative writing and the transformative power of writing in community. Please note: This workshop will meet Tuesdays, February 24 through April 28, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Powell's City of Books. Advanced registration is required. ... (more)Sarah Waters (May 4 at 7:30pm) Award-winning, bestselling author Sarah Waters traverses new literary territory with her latest novel, The Little Stranger (Riverhead), an evocative and unnerving old-fashioned ghost story set in post-World War II England.
Christopher McDougall (May 26 at 7:30pm)
Aleksandar Hemon (May 28 at 7:30pm)
Glen David Gold (May 29 at 7:30pm)
Lisa M. Hamilton (June 1 at 7:30pm)
Andrew J. Bacevich (June 2 at 7:30pm)
Luis Urrea (June 3 at 7:30pm)
China Mieville (June 7 at 7:30pm)
Cory Schreiber and Julie Richardson (June 8 at 7:30pm)
Joe Meno (June 10 at 7:30pm)
Laleh Khadivi (June 11 at 7:30pm)
Marc Fitten (June 11 at 7:30pm)
David Carr (June 12 at 7:30pm)
Gillian Flynn (June 14 at 7:30pm)
Robert Olmstead (June 15 at 7:30pm)
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (June 16 at 7:30pm)
Norman Ollestad (June 17 at 7:30pm)
Ali Sethi (June 19 at 7:30pm)
Novella Carpenter (June 23 at 7:30pm)
Margot Berwin (June 24 at 7:30pm)
Daniel James Brown (June 26 at 7:30pm) Library Journal calls The Indifferent Stars Above, "A supple, readable, and well-researched narrative...Never melodramatic or maudlin..." Kirkus Review calls it "a skillful, suspenseful study of the Donner party..." Come hear Daniel James Brown discuss some of the surprising facts and unfounded myths ... (more)Daniel James Brown (June 26 at 7:30pm) Library Journal calls The Indifferent Stars Above, "A supple, readable, and well-researched narrative...Never melodramatic or maudlin..." Kirkus Review calls it "a skillful, suspenseful study of the Donner party..." Come hear Daniel James Brown discuss some of the surprising facts and unfounded myths ... (more) |
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It's a bit of a trek from the UK but I would love to go back. More bookshops should be this big and this great.