Tonight 11-6: Jeff VanderMeer, Jay Lake, Cat Rambo, and Jeff Johnson at The Press Club

Today’s Featured Book Event:

Jeff VanderMeer, Jay Lake, Cat Rambo, and Jeff Johnson (The Press Club, @5:30pm): Join Underland Press to celebrate the weird and the wonderful with readings by acclaimed authors Jeff VanderMeer, Jay Lake, Cat Rambo, and Jeff Johnson. With art by Benjamin W. Burch and music by DJ Santo, along with crepes, wine, and beer at the Press Club, we’ll stay and talk fantastic lit ’till the management kicks us out.

Underland Press is dedicated to publishing weird, strange, odd, and unsettling fiction. Founded in 2007 by an ex Dark Horse editor, the press hit the ground running with titles ranging from Martin Millar’s Queen Vex, to the Best American Fantasy series, to Brian Evenson’s Last Days. Limited editions of Underland books will be available to purchase at the reading.

Other Book Events Today:

Inklings (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): When Jeffrey Koterba was six, he started drawing his first cartoons as a way of escaping the pandemonium that surrounded him. Inklings (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is Koterba’s memoir about his chaotic boyhood home, and his childhood burdened with both Tourette’s syndrome and an eccentric, hard-drinking, and overbearing father. A young man determined to follow his creative spirit, Koterba eventually overcomes it all to land his dream job as a nationally syndicated political cartoonist.

Censored 2010 (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): In addition to highlighting the 25 most important underreported news stories, Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff’s Censored 2010 (Seven Stories) includes in-depth essays on select issues, plus updates on previous years’ censored stories and the “junk food” stories that get all the coverage. An invaluable alternative-media resource.

You can find other events on your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County.