Tonight 10-27: George Wright presents "Driving To Vernonia" at Broadway Books

Today’s Featured Book Event:

George Wright presents Driving To Vernonia (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): George Wright will be here tonight to read from his newest novel, Driving to Vernonia. The story is told by Edmund Kirby-Smith, who is approaching his fiftieth birthday. Just when his life should be at its peak, he loses everything. With compassion and daring, Wright explores one man’s loss of self and chronicles his journey to reconnect with his past and reclaim what is there. Driving to Vernonia is a penetrating story of deprivation, laced with love and anger, violence and self-discovery. Wright is also the author of the Oregon Trio: Baker City 1948, Tillamook 1952, and Roseburg 1959 — three novels set in small-town Oregon in the forties and fifties.

Other Book Events Today:

Zinesters Talking (North Portland Library, @6:30pm): Local independent publishers read from their zines in the fifth annual Zinesters Talking series. MExplore emotional terrain in “The Empire Builder” with A.M. O’Malley and find out what’s in “Free Box the Magazine” with Bece Kidder. Bring your own giveaways to deposit in a special free box at the event — or come ready to peruse the free box for goodies to take away!

What’s the Big Idea? Lecture Series, Presents: Myron Orfield (Portland State, Smith Memorial SU Ballroom, @7:00pm): Myron Orfield, of the University of Minnesota and Brookings Institute, will be speaking at PSU on October 27th from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. Myron is known as an expert on state and local finance, land use planning, civil rights, and state and local government. He is also a law professor and director of the Institute of Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota. Many of you are familiar with his books Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability and American Metropolitics: The New Suburban Reality.

We hope that you can join us for this thought provoking, timely conversation. This event may be an excellent opportunity for your students. If you would like to coordinate bringing a class to this event, please let us know so that we can appropriately accommodate.

Kate Elliott & Ken Scholes (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): Traitors’ Gate (Tor) returns readers to Elliott’s exquisitely crafted land of the Hundred in a thunderous conclusion to the saga. In Scholes’s Canticle (Tor), the noble allies who have come to the Ninefold Forest for a feast in honor of General Rudolfo’s first-born child are attacked by invisible assassins.

Whole Earth Discipline (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Discipline (Viking) shows exactly where the sources of environmental dilemmas lie and offers a bold and inventive set of policies and solutions for creating a more sustainable society.

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.