Today’s Featured Book Event:
Karen Karbo (Lake Oswego Library, @7:00pm): The Lake Oswego Public Library is pleased to present local author Karen Karbo as part of the Library’s Third Tuesday Author Series.
Karen Karbo is the author of three novels – Trespassers Welcome Here, The Diamond Lane and Motherhood Made a Man Out of Me – all of which were named New York Times Notable Books. The Stuff of Life, about caring for her father during the last year of his life, was a People Magazine Critic’s Choice, a selection of the Satellite Sisters Radio Book Club, a winner of the Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, and also a Times Notable Book. Her most recent work, The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World’s Most Elegant Woman, is a captivating, offbeat look at style, celebrity and self-invention.
Other Book Events Today:
Zinesters Talking (Central Library, @6:30pm): Local independent publishers read from their zines in the fifth annual Zinesters Talking series. Mini-comics come alive with author-illustrators Lisa Eisenberg (”I Cut My Hair” and “Monsters Make a Stew”) and Julia Gfrörer (”Ariadne auf Naxos” and “All the Ancient Kings”).
Women’s Creative Collective (In Other Words Women’s Books and Resources, @6:30pm): Women’s Creative Collective who we are and what we do… who we are: A collective of women, formed with the purpose of supporting each other in overcoming roadblocks, challenging ourselves, and helping each other meet our goals as artists, writers, and performers. what we do: We plan to combine writing, interactive games, discussion, exercises from The Artist’s Way, and artist’s sharing to re-charge creatively, challenge ourselves artistically, and support each other in meeting our long-term goals.
This collective is open to self-identified women who are well along in their creative pursuits, who would appreciate and benefit from the opportunity of a shared creative community. Meetings: first and third Tuesdays, beginning Oct. 20 6:30-8:30 Shared facilitation (rotating, and divided by section). For more information, please call Tamara at 503-334-7491, or email tamlynwal@gmail.com.
Johnny Stallings Presents “One-Man Lear” (Lewis & Clark College, Albany Quadrangle, Smith Hall, @7:00pm): This is an encore performance of Johnny Stallings’ popular one-man show. Stallings first performed his solo version of King Lear in the spring of 1978, thanks to a grant from the Metropolitan Arts Commission of Portland. Since then, he has performed in schools, theaters, prisons, and at the Cornelia Connell Theater in New York.
Stallings’ performance of King Lear is a no-frills version that will amaze and fascinate. Without trivial things like sets, props, costumes, and other actors cluttering up the stage, you’ll find your brain forced to concentrate on nothing but the words themselves, which–according to Johnny–is not such a bad thing: “It’s arguably the best poetry in any language,” he says reverently. It takes great skill to make Shakespeare this approachable, and above all else, his grasp of the language is impeccable. Stallings glosses over sections of King Lear with summary asides, and handles the dialogue scenes by simply moving to different parts of the room, distinguishing the different characters with only the smallest variations in posture and tone. The result should be clumsy and awkward, but the precision of his line readings, combined with his quirky sense of humor, makes it fluid.
In prior years, this has been a standing-room-only event. Please arrive early to get a seat.
Two Pennies and a Magpie, What We Collect and What We Discard (Looking Glass Bookstore, @7:00pm): A poetry reading with Penelope Scambly Schott author of A is for Anne, Penny Harter author of The Night Marsh, & Margaret Chula author of What Remains. Apropos to the theme, they invite you to bring in something that you collect or to tell a story about an object, idea, or person that you have discarded.
Daniel Goldhagen (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): From Daniel Goldhagen’s Worse Than War (PublicAffairs) gets to the heart of genocide and, in doing so, challenges fundamental ideas about human beings, society, and politics. This event is co-sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Oregon.
Timothy Egan (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): In The Big Burn (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), Timothy Egan details the largest-ever forest fire in America and the tragedy that cemented Teddy Roosevelt’s legacy in the land.
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.
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