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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Selden Edwards presents The Little Book (Annie Bloom’s Books, @7:30pm): In Selden Edwards’s debut novel, The Little Book, Wheeler Burden is a famous American rock star who inexplicably finds himself in 19th century Vienna. There, he acquires an archrival, a captivating lover, and a mentor named Sigmund Freud. But the truth at the center of his time traveling remains a stubborn mystery that will take months of exploration and a lifetime of memories to unravel and will, in the end, reveal nothing short of his eccentric family’s unrivaled impact upon the very course of the coming century.
Other Book Events Today:
Title Wave Used Bookstore Grand Reopening (Title Wave Used Bookstore, @10:00am): Join us for cake, punch and door prizes!
Elizabeth Nielsen-Sheller (Lake Oswego Library, 12:00pm): Myths, Marriage, and Murder: The Literature Behind the Great Operas. From its inception, opera was meant to embody the influential literature of its time. Composers drew from the most shocking stories of scandal, political intrigue, forbidden love, and haunting deaths–anything for a big audience, much like blockbuster films today. Literature affected both scope and form of opera, influencing the way composers thought about music. Join Opera Theater Oregon’s Executive Director, Elizaebeth Nielsen-Sheller, in peeling back the layers of several masterworks.
Soapstone Raffle Drawing (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): Tonight the winning tickets of the Soapstone raffle will be drawn. Although you need not be present to win, come anyway and celebrate with us the ongoing work that Soapstone has done for so many years by providing a space for women to write. We’ll stay open until 8 pm and 20% of all sales during that final hour will be donated to Soapstone.
Milwaukie Poetry Series (Milwaukie Ledding Library, @7:00pm): John Morrison will present the first reading. Mr. Morrison, who currently teaches poetry at Portland Community College, earned his MFA from the University of Alabama. His book, Heaven of the Moment, won the Rhea & Seymour Gorsline Poetry Competition. His poems have appeared in the Cimarron Review, Poetry East, Southern Poetry Review, and Caffeine Destiny among other national journals. One critic noted that “whether [Morrison] reflects on his past as a day laborer and youthful romances, or early fatherhood and watching his parents grow old, he always finds the magical in the ordinary and the thoughtfulness in seemingly unimportant moments.”
Willa Schneberg Reading (Barnes & Noble Vancouver, @7:00pm): Author and poet Willa Schneberg will make an upcoming special appearance featuring her book Storytelling in Cambodia. From 1992-1993, she worked for the U.N. in Phnom Penh. Schneberg’s book links haunting, beautiful pieces describing the country from its mythic times to its first free elections.
Thomas Frank Reading (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): From Thomas Frank, author of the landmark bestseller What’s the Matter with Kansas?, comes The Wrecking Crew (Metropolitan), a jaw-dropping investigation of the decades of deliberate — and lucrative — conservative misrule.
Recipe for America (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): A call to action for those who are concerned about what they eat and the health of the planet, Jill Richardson’s Recipe for America: Why Our Food System Is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It (Ig Publishing) shows how sustainable eating nourishes our bodies, our economy, and our environment, and how it is the best hope for the future of food in America.
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.
