Tin House Magazine's 10th Anniversary Celebration at Newmark Theatre

Today’s Featured Book Event:

Tin House Magazine’s 10th Anniversary (Newmark Theatre, @7:30pm, $12-$15): Celebrate Tin House’s 10th anniversary with a gathering of some of the country’s most exciting established and emerging writers who’ve been published by the magazine in the past decade. With readings, personal anecdotes, and short interviews, the night promises to be a snapshot of what Tin House offers in each of its issues, quality fiction and poetry with personality to spare.Emceed by Colson Whitehead (Sag Harbor), the event will include these readers/presenters:

Dorothy Allison – Steve Almond – Aimee Bender
Charles D’Ambrosio – Matthew Dickman – Michael Dickman
Ron Hansen – Holly MacArthur – Win McCormack
Lee Montgomery – Peter Rock – Jim Shepard – Rob Spillman

Proceeds from the event will benefit WITS (Writers in the Schools), a program of Literary Arts. Please note: This ticketed event takes place at the Newmark Theater, 1111 SW Broadway. Tickets, $12/$15, are available through Portland Center for the Performing Arts or Ticketmaster.com, or by phone at 1-800-745-3000.

Other Book Event’s Today:

2nd Annual Fancy Nancy Party (A Children’s Place Bookstore, @1:00pm): Fancy Nancy, by Jane O’Connor, is one of our favorite picture books, and we will be celebrating in style. There will be a fancy book reading, eloquent activities, and delectable treats! Come dressed in your fanciest!

Arnold Pander Signing (Floating World Comics, @4-6pm): TASTY BULLET mines the darker side of the worldwide energy drink phenomenon, with an amped up tale of redemption and revenge. A new chapter in manga graphic novels begins on July 10th, when Image Comics releases the long-awaited new graphic novel, TASTY BULLET, from two of the genre’s popular creators – Jonathan Vankin and Arnold Pander.

Arnold Pander will sign copies of TASTY BULLET at Floating World Comics, Thursday July 16th from 4-6pm.

Guys Read Open House (Midland Library, @4:00pm): Come learn about the reading club for guys only. Have a snack and hear about some great books for guys. For more information about the Guys Read Project started by Jon Scieszka, author of “The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales” and “The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs,” visit www.guysread.com.

Lauren Rosewarne Reading (In Other Words Books, @7:00pm): Cheating on the Sisterhood is a feminist analysis of the imbroglio of sexual politics, brute sociobiology, and pop-mediated passion that is conjured up when a married man cheats on his wife with a younger, single woman. Drawing frankly on her own case study as the other woman, Rosewarne shows what happens when all three parties to the classic triangle happen to be feminists, each trotting out a different set of feminist arguments to justify, vilify, and rationalize their actions. Is the other woman a tool of the cheating man’s assertion of gender dominance over both his mate and his mistress, such that she is willy-nilly a traitor to the sisterhood? Most heterosexuals-including most feminist heterosexuals- continue to regard monogamy as the ultimate goal to be sought in contemporary relationships. Once the longed-for sanctuary of monogamy is attained, impulses to infidelity arise unbidden, fueled by pornography, technological change, narcissism, consumerism, and unlimited sexual choice. Cheating on the Sisterhood shows us that contemporary feminism does not automatically endorse or reject any particular choices by the three parties to infidelity. Instead it informs each of the actors of the political implications and sadomasochistic inflections of their choices.

Derek McCormack and Stacey Levine Reading (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): Starring a host of Hollywood’s brightest stars, Derek McCormack’s The Show That Smells (Akashic) is a thrilling tale of hillbillies, high fashion, and horror about a country music singer dying of tuberculosis whose wife tries to save him by selling her soul to the devil. In The Girl with Brown Fur (Akashic), PEN-West Award winner Stacey Levine has invented stories that will thrill readers of literary fiction who hunger for an innovative American voice.

Get Animated! (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): A clearly written and illustrated guide for the home animator, Tim Maloney’s Get Animated! (Watson-Guptill) shows aspiring animators how to create studio-grade animation on simple home equipment.

You can find other events on your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County. For other book events this week, please check the list.