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My AccountTodays Featured Book Event:
Portland Arts & Lecture Series presents Calvin Trillin (Newmark Theater, @7:30pm, $25-$55): For twenty-five years, Portland Arts & Lectures has delighted and informed Oregonians. Reporter, humorist, and poet Calvin Trillin has been delighting and informing Americans for even longer. Join us in celebrating our milestone anniversary with Trillin, a long-time friend and supporter of Literary Arts who appeared as our very first Portland Arts & Lectures speaker in 1984. A true polymath whose writings range from the farcical to the politically forthright, Trillin consistently proves to be an entertaining provocateur.
A former reporter for Time and the New Yorker as well as a columnist and weekly poet for the Nation, Calvin Trillin is the author of a dazzling number and range of books, including an account of the desegregation of the University of Georgia, numerous comic novels, a series of memoirs, and multiple collections of poetry.
Other Book Event’s Today:
Christopher Moore Reading (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @ 7:00pm): The wildly inventive, bestselling author of You Suck! is back with Fool (William Morrow & Company), a modern take on King Lear. It’s 1288; the king’s fool, Pocket, and his dimwit apprentice, Drool, set out to clean up the mess Lear has made of his kingdom, his family, and his fortune.
Toward 2012 (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Toward 2012 (Tarcher) is an informed, challenging, and engaging collection of essays on the new choices in lifestyles and community as we begin the countdown toward the year 2012. This fresh and thought-provoking anthology draws together some of today’s most celebrated visionaries, thinkers, and pioneers in the field of evolving consciousness — exploring topics from shamanism to Mayan predictions of the year 2012. Editor Daniel Pinchbeck is joined by contributors Kal Cobalt and Paul Levy.
Please check your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County. For other book events this week please check the list.
