Tonight 11-2: 1,000 Words Reading Series Celebrates 2nd Anniversary at The Maiden

Today’s Featured Book Event:

1000 Words Reading Series 2nd Anniversary (The Maiden, @7:00pm): 1,000 Words returns Monday, November 2 at the Maiden for its second anniversary and the newest chapter in our Oulipean experiment: five writers (Daneen Bergland, Joe Pitkin, Geoff Rogers, Geneva Chao, and Ryan Davis) wrote on the theme RECOGNITION, penning 250 words per week for four weeks in response to prompts extracted by series curator Mel Favara from William Gaddis’s novel The Recognitions—only they didn’t know where the prompts originated. The results, as per usual, have been wildly divergent, smart, and fresh: want to see how five different authors employed the phrase, “a distance never measured in miles but in minutes”?

Other Book Events Today:

Friends of Hillsboro Library Fall Used Book Sale (Hillsboro Library-Main Branch, @10:00am-8:00pm): The Friends of the Hillsboro Public Library are having the Fall Book Sale in the Meeting Room during regular library hours. For more information about the Friends, visit their website at www.hillsborolibraryfriends.org.

3 Friends Mondays: Caffeinated Art #68 (Three Friends Coffee House, @7:00pm): Poets rick j and Mikey Golightly take the stage along with singer/songwriter Mindy Dillard at Three Friends’ popular Monday night performance art series.

Chelsea Cain (St. Helen’s Bookshop, @7:00pm): This bestselling Portland author will read from her newest thriller, Evil at Heart, about the relationship between detective Archie Sheridan and serial killer Gretchen Lowell. It promises to be a lively and entertaining evening.

Fifty More Places to Play Golf Before You Die (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): Fifty More Places to Play Golf before You Die (Stewart, Tabori & Chang), the sixth of Chris Santella’s popular Fifty Places series, presents interviews with 50 luminaries in the golf world who share their favorite courses and experiences. More than 40 spectacular photos capture the allure of these unforgettable destinations.

Daniel Arnold (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): In Early Days in the Range of Light (Counterpoint), an artful blend of history, biography, nature, and adventure writing, Daniel Arnold chronicles three years spent retracing the steps of his climbing forefathers in the Sierra Nevadas.

Rana Husseini (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Breaking through the conspiracy of silence, Rana Husseini has been instrumental in bringing the global atrocity of honor crimes to the world’s attention. Hard-hitting and controversial, Murder in the Name of Honor (Oneworld) is a “powerful and important book” (Booklist, starred review).

PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series features: The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest (Portland State, Shattuck Hall Annex, @7:30pm): The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Will Lecture About Their 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.