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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Caffeinated Art #65: Dave Jarecki, Arthur Smid and Dennis Yates (Three Friends Coffee House, @7:00pm): Dave Jarecki writes poetry, fiction and nonfiction from his home in NE Portland. His work has appeared in a number of print and online venues, including Baseball Savvy, INUR Magazine and Cloudbank Literary Magazine. He facilitates writing workshops throughout the Greater Portland area, and is a contributing writer at Read Write Poem, an online poetry community. He’ll be reading from his recently released chapbook, Backwards on the Train (c)2009, Imperfect Press [www.imperfectpress.net], in addition to sharing a few newer pieces.
Arthur Smid is a student of communications at Portland State University. He would be happy to tell stories that can change the world for the better. Please contact him if you need help with reading, speaking, or written communication. For more details and contact info, see Arthur Smid on Facebook.
A native of Portland, Oregon, and a fan of long road trips, Dennis Yates is still recovering from working in the hospitality industry over ten years ago. His stories have appeared in Amarillo Bay and Well Told Tales and he is currently working on a suspense novel. He will be reading excerpts from his novel The Teriyaki Samurai, which explores the nature of friendship, forgiveness and the drug of highway travel:
Other Book Events Today:
Patrick McManus (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): In The Double-Jack Murders (Simon & Schuster), Sheriff Bo Tully finds himself hunting one murderer who’s probably long dead, while being hunted by another who’s very much alive.
Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean (Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): In Rowing the Atlantic (Simon & Schuster), Roz Savage writes of her 103-day solo voyage across the ocean, during which she discovers there’s much more to life than an unhappy marriage and a high-paying job.
Ryan Boudinot (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): In Misconception (Grove), Boudinot delivers a startlingly original debut novel — both a smart and provocative coming-of-age story and a fresh, witty commentary on the unreliability of memory and storytelling.
