Another pair of Outstanding Sponsors who have gone out of their way to help our little event shine. Join us tomorrow night at Read to Rebuild!
HOTLIPS Pizza – They kindly donated a Gift Certificate for a big ‘ol pizza at one of their locations. Thanks HOTLIPS!
HOTLIPS has been a family-owned business since it began making pizzas in 1984. In 2005 we began producing fresh fruit soda. We have five pizzerias in Portland, a commissary kitchen, a soda brewing operation, a mobile oven that travels to farmers markets and to regional festivals.
Our mission is to preserve culture and celebrate humanity through our rich culinary traditions and by joining with others in finding new, sustainable ways of doing business.
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Smallpressapalooza (Powells City of Books, @5:00pm): Powell’s hosts the third annual Smallpressapalooza, a five-hour marathon of readings from some of the best small-press writers of the Northwest and beyond. This year’s line-up includes Alex Wrekk (Brainscan zine), Shawn Granton (editor of The Zinester’s Guide to Portland), Matthew Stadler (Publication Studio), Jeff Burk (Shatnerquake), and many others. Check the Powell’s Calendar for a full schedule of readers.
Other Book Events Today:
CAFFEINATED ART # 86 (Three Friends Coffee House, @7:00pm): Erotica author Elva Maxine Beach and local poets Celestial Concubine and Dan Raphael will read from their work. Check out Reading Local’s interview with Ms. Beach here.
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The one thing about a blog is that with each new post added, the great content that came before it gets lost in the shuffle. So in an effort to bring some of that great content back to the forefront, and to help make things easier for the casual reader, each Sunday we highlight some of the great articles that found their way onto RLP throughout the week.
- Karen conducted a series of fantastic interviews with a few of the writers who will be reading at Tuesday’s (3-16) Read to Rebuild-Haiti Benefit Reading, including Laura Moulton, Ben Parzybok, Margaret Malone, and Tom Spanbauer.
- Spencer continued highlighting the generous sponsors of our Read to Rebuild Prize Raffle, including Floating World Comics, Annie Bloom’s Books, Second Glance Books, Hawthorne Books, and Dark Horse Comics.
- Patient, Folded Hands Publishing founder Jaret Ferratusco provided a fantastic essay chronicling his latest book tour.
- We reviewed Daniel R. Cobb’s debut novel The Mine.
- Teresa conducted a fabulous interview with Elva Maxine Beach, who will be reading at Three Friends Coffee House tomorrow (3-15) at 7:00pm.
- Cindy Hudson contributed another fantastic “Mother-Daughter Review,” this one featuring North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley.
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Iranian-American writer Elizabeth Eslami received her MFA from Warren Wilson College in 2003. Her debut novel, Bone Worship, was published this year by Pegasus Books, and she’ll read at Broadway Books on Tuesday, March 16 at 7 pm. 
We caught up with Elizabeth to talk to her in more detail about Bone Worship…and to give you a chance to win a free copy of the book. Enter to win by leaving a comment on this post, or by linking back here from your own blog or site. We’ll choose a winner at random later this week. (You must be in the U.S. to win.)
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Another HUGE Thank you to a couple of sponsors who have donated in kind to the prize raffle for our Read to Rebuild Event.
Little Red Bike – They have given us the sweetest donation yet. A jar of Homemade Jam! Thanks Little Red Bike!
- Check out the Little Red Bike Cafe Blog. Wow that Blog makes me Hungry.
Murder by the Book – They have donated a wonderful Gift Certificate worth $25. Thanks Murder by the Book!
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
It’s Raining Cupcakes (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @2:00pm): Lisa Schroeder, the popular author of I Heart You, You Haunt Me, delivers a sweet treat for tweens in It’s Raining Cupcakes (Aladdin), a novel that’s baked to perfection.
Other Book Events Today:
NW Author Series: Write What People Remember (Wilsonville Public Library, @3:30pm, $5): Naseem Rakha presents “Writing What Works: How to Learn from What You Read and How to Write What People Remember.” Naseem Rakha is an award-winning journalist whose stories have been heard on OPB, and NPR. Her first novel, The Crying Tree, has been selected for the Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers Series and is currently a nominee for the 2010 PNBA Book Award.
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Please join us Tuesday, March 16 at The Writers’ Dojo for Read to Rebuild: A Haiti Reading Benefit, featuring six outstanding Portland writers. This is the fourth in a special series of interviews with each of these readers. Look for more Read to Rebuild interviews in the next few days.
Tom Spanbauer is a critically acclaimed author and the founder of the Dangerous Writing technique and workshops. As a writer he has explored issues of race, of sexual identity, and of how we make a family for ourselves in order to surmount the limitations of the families into which we are born.
His four published novels, including Faraway Places (Hawthorne Books), The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon (Harper Perennial), In The City Of Shy Hunters (Grove Press), and Now is the Hour (HMH), are notable for their combination of a fresh and lyrical prose style with solid storytelling.
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Every Saturday we will bring you links to articles from around the web featuring members of Portland’s lit community. Please feel free to pass along any you come across as well, by emailing us at portland@readinglocal.com, and we will include them in next week’s edition of Short Stories.
The Big Grabowski co-authors Carolyn J. Rose and Mike Nettleton are interviewed on My Shelf:
Deb: Collaborative writing presents unique challenges; how was your collaborative experience? Any hints for success?
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Tangent presents: Jake Buffy, Brandon Downing, & Reg Johanson (Clinton Corner Cafe, @7:00pm): Tangent is pleased to host three exciting poets: Portland native Jake Buffy will be making his full-length reading debut; New York-based artist Brandon Downing will be screening some new film shorts; and Reg Johanson will be joining us all the way from Vancouver, BC to perform his new poetry.
Other Book Events Today:
Gala Celebration Honoring Local Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (Barnes & Noble-Clackamas, @3:00pm): Come celebrate the talents of the SCBWI-Oregon. Sixteen authors and illustrators of children’s and teen’s books will be here to present and sign their books, including Emily Whitman, Carmen Bernier-Grand, Lisa Schroeder, Dale Basye and Nancy Coffelt.
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We are so close to the event now and you know how excited we are, so I won’t go into it all again today. But we’ve got a really exciting sponsor announcement for our Read to Rebuild prize raffle.
Dark Horse Comics – The wonderful and whimsical and always generous DHC has donated over $300 worth of materials in kind to our prize raffle.
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Elva Maxine Beach was born in Missouri to a family of preachers, teachers, and storytellers. She studied writing with Andrei Codrescu and others at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, then lived in Austin for more than a decade. In 2008, New Belleville Press published Neurotica, a fictionalized account of her varied and risk-taking sex life.
Beach took time out of her sexy schedule to answer a few questions for Reading Local. See her in person on Monday, March 15, at Three Friends Coffeehouse.
Q: A couple of years ago you returned to St. Louis , where you had lived when you were younger. How has this return home affected your writing life?
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From what we could find (please contact us if you have an event you would like us to add to this or future schedules), the local book events for the week of March 13, 2010 through March 19, 2010 are:
Saturday March 13-
Gala Celebration Honoring Local Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (Barnes & Noble-Clackamas, @3:00pm): Come celebrate the talents of the SCBWI-Oregon. Sixteen authors and illustrators of children’s and teen’s books will be here to present and sign their books, including Emily Whitman, Carmen Bernier-Grand, Lisa Schroeder, Dale Basye and Nancy Coffelt.
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