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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
23rd Annual Oregon Book Awards Ceremony hosted by Tom Bissell (Gerding Theater at The Armory, @7:30pm, $17-50, Purchase Tickets): Join Literary Arts’ annual celebration of the state’s most accomplished published writers in the genres of poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, and young readers literature.
Tom Bissell will host the ceremony. Tom Bissell is the author, most recently, of The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam, which was selected as one of the best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune, Salon, and the Christian Science Monitor. His other books include Chasing the Sea, and God Lives in St. Petersburg. He lives in Portland and teaches in the MFA program at Portland State University.
A cash-bar reception and book signing will follow the ceremony.
Other Book Events Today:
Citizens Read Book Club (Gerding Theater at The Armory, @6:00pm): Artisan Cheese of the Pacific Northwest: A Discovery Guide, which will appeal to cheese lovers, locavores and fans of the 100 Mile Diet, has everything you want to know about interesting and delicious Northwest cheeses. Recommended by Liz Crain, author of the Food Lover’s Guide to Portland, this book includes profiles of farms and cheesemakers, explanations of how various cheeses are made, how to choose and store cheese and what to drink with various types of cheese. Author Tami Parr and guest attendee Steve Jones will answer your questions regarding everything you always wanted to know about cheese.
John Grogan (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): Using the trademark blend of humor and pathos that made Marley and Me beloved by millions, John Grogan’s The Longest Trip Home (William Morrow) explores what it means to find the way home once again.
Saving Kyoto (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): Kristen Sheeran’s Saving Kyoto (New Holland) focuses on international efforts to confront our current environmental crisis and provides a colorful explanation of why international cooperation between poor and wealthy nations has become critical.
Viva Las Vegas (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Part coming-of-age story, part Portland love letter, Magic Gardens (Graphic Arts) is the memoir of Viva Las Vegas, a Midwest preacher’s daughter with a fabulous academic pedigree, who could have had any career — but chose to become a stripper.
Portland State Monday Night Lecture Series: Kenneth Goldsmith (Portland State, Shattuck Hall Annex, @7:30pm): All the way from NYC! Poet and founding editor of UbuWeb, Kenneth Goldsmith, will lecture about his work! The public is invited (its free, tell your friends).
You can find other events on your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County.
