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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Literary Arts’ Writers in the Schools-Wilson High School (Annie Bloom’s Books, @7:00pm): The readings feature student authors who worked with our writers during the fall semester. Writer-in-residence Amy Minato and classroom teachers will read with the students.
Other Book Event’s Today:
2009 Children’s Author Lecture: Jon Scieszka (First Congregational Church, @7:00pm, $12 adults/$6 students): Jon Scieszka, the first National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, will deliver the 12th annual lecture. After his talk, Mr. Scieszka will autograph his books, which will also be available for purchase. To order tickets by mail or for more information, call 503.988.5402.
John Daniel Reading (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): In his latest book of essays, The Far Corner (Counterpoint), John Daniel writes from the ground he walks on and the landscape he inhabits, spinning narratives — on, among other things, the writers Ken Kesey and Wallace Stegner; the literary genre of creative nonfiction; death and dying and the consolations of mortality — that seek to define how he belongs to the land and to life itself.
Franz Wisner Reading (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Uproarious, tender, and studded with eye-opening insights on love, How the World Makes Love (St. Martin’s), the latest from the bestselling author of Honeymoon with My Brother, is the story of one average man’s search for happiness — a search that turns into an improbable love story in the author’s own backyard.
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.
