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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Loggernaut Reading Series (Mississippi Studios, @8:00pm): Loggernaut turns four! Please join us for an anniversary reading and concert on Wednesday, April 8th, at Mississippi Studios (3939 N. Mississippi) in Portland. Doors open at 7PM, show starts at 8PM. Admission is $10 and all proceeds go to benefit the work of Write Around Portland. We’ve got a terrific lineup: Carrie Brownstein, David J. Morris, and B.T. Shaw, with music by Lovers. Learn more about them here. The prompt for April is RISK. Please join us!
Other Book Event’s Today:
Lilian Faschinger Reading (UP Buckley Center, @4:00pm): Austrian writer Lilian Faschinger is a prolific author, poet, and translator. Faschinger typically incorporates into her works a rigorous critique of Austrian society and customs, as viewed from a woman’s perspective. She will read from her most recent work. Faschinger has written three novels, two radio plays, two volumes of short stories, a volume of poetry, and completed multiple translations from English-speaking authors. Her first novel “Die Neue Scheherazade” (The New Scheherazade, 1985) attracted considerable critical recognition. Her 2007 novel, “Stadt der Verlierer,” (Town Full of Losers), written in 2007, won the Friedrich Glauser Prize for best (German) crime novel of the year in 2008.
Presented by the University’s Foreign Languages Department. Free and open to the public.
Crystal Williams Reading (Milwaukie Ledding Library Pond House, @7:00pm): Crystal Williams, Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Reed College, was raised in Detroit, Michigan, and Madrid, Spain. Her poetry appears in magazines such as Luna, Fourth River, Callaloo, the Indiana Review, and in the anthologies: American Poetry: The Next Generation, Poetry Nation, Sweet Jesus, and Beyond the Frontier, among others. Ms Williams’ recent poetry collection entitled Lunatic received high praise: “Lunatic…gives us another glimpse of this fine artist’s keen eye for social nuance and her deep respect for oral tradition. Lunatic courageously roots out the underbelly of the human condition with humor, irony, and unflinching directness.”. She has been a featured reader at venues across the country including: The National Arts Club, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Sarah Lawrence College. Ms Williams was chosen by Marilyn Nelson for the 2009 Long Madgett Poetry Award and was short-listed for the Idaho Prize. She lives with her dog Oliver-a dog’s dog, a dog among dogs, the super duper top dog. They spend as much time as they can in Chicago, Illinois, roaming the lake front and keeping tabs on the stars.
Michael Dickman and Mary Szybist Reading (Barnes & Noble Vancouver, @7:00pm): Michael Dickman will read from his illuminating, acclaimed title End of the West. Mary Szybist, a professor at Lewis & Clark College, will be reading from Granted, her collection of poems that was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. We feature free Starbucks coffee and treats, hundreds of poetry titles on our shelves, and a wide-ranging open mic! Barnes & Noble Vancouver: 7700 NE 4th Plain Blvd.
Book Bags Book Group (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): This month’s women’s book group meets to discuss Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family by Lauren Kessler. New members to the group are always welcome.
Thomas E. Ricks Reading (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Fiasco, Thomas E. Ricks’s #1 New York Times bestseller, transformed the political dialogue on the war in Iraq. The Gamble (Penguin Press), the story of General David Petraeus and the American military, reveals that many high-level officials were opposed to the 2003 invasion.
Richard Engeman presents The Oregon Companion (Annie Blooms Books, @7:00pm): What’s the connection between Ken Kesey and Nancy’s Yogurt? How about the difference between a hoedad and a webfoot? What became of the Pixie Kitchen and the vanished Lambert Gardens? Richard Engeman’s The Oregon Companion is an A-Z handbook of over 1000 people, places, and things.
VOICES Contemporary Lectures Presents Amy Dickinson (First Congregational Church, @7:30pm): Amy Dickinson is a syndicated advice columnist, penning the “Ask Amy” column, which appears in over 200 newspapers, including the L.A. Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Oregonian and The Washington Post. Dickinson made news around the country in 2003 when she was chosen to step into the void created by the death of legendary advice columnist Ann Landers. Under Dickinson’s stewardship, the advice column has come of age. In May 2007, Dickinson signed a two book deal with Hyperion for a novel and a memoir, to be titled The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, A Daughter and the People Who Raised Them.
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.
