Today’s Featured Book Event:
Book Release Party for David Michael Slater’s “Book of Knowledge” (A Children’s Place Bookstore, @3:00pm): The Book Of Knowledge, Volume II of the Sacred Books series, will be released by Blooming Tree Press/CBAY. This installment is certain to justify the publisher’s motto: “Publishing the Banned Books of Tomorrow.” As promised, beginning with Volume II, the series explodes notions of standard literary content for “Teen Lit” by venturing boldly into “da Vinci Code” territory. The questions and speculations surrounding the series can now, in part, be answered.
Special guests, Dayle Bayse (Heck I and II) and Bart King (Big Book for Boys) will be reading from The Book Of Knowledge, the sequel to The Book Of Nonsense. This event will also feature the Grand Prize drawing in the Literary Treasure Hunt that has been going on at Portland bookstores the past month.
David Michael Slater has won many awards for his popular picture books, including Cheese Louise!, The Ring Bear, and Flour Girl. Selfless, his first novel for adults, was published in March, 2009. His screenplay, Mocha Cola High, is currently in development with Right Angle Pictures. David is a public school teacher in Portland, Oregon, where he lives with his wife and son. Learn more at: www.davidmichaelslater.com
Other Book Events Today:
The Adaptable Feast (Powells City of Books, @2:00pm): After marrying a vegetarian, meat-lover Ivy Manning developed a collection of recipes that each had a “fork in the road” to a few vegetarian servings of a meaty dish or a few omnivore servings of a vegetarian dish. The Adaptable Feast (Sasquatch) offers a diverse and delicious array of recipes that are flexible enough to accommodate everyone at the table.
Northwest Author Series Presents Memoirist Melissa Hart on How to Craft & Market Life Stories (Wilsonville Public Library, @3:30pm): Melissa Hart is the author of the memoir Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood (Seal, 2009). Her short memoir has appeared in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Mothering, The Advocate, Hemispheres, Fourth Genre, Woman’s Day, High Country News, Orion, and various other publications. Melissa teaches journalism at the University of Oregon, and memoir writing for U.C. Berkeley’s online extension program. She’s a contributing editor to The Writer Magazine.
Poets Bill Siverly, Barbara Drake, & Carlos Reyes (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @4:00pm): Bill Siverly‘s Clearwater Way is a poetic journey from the Washington Coast, up the Columbia, Snake, and Clearwater Rivers, into the woods of northern Idaho. The title poem of Barbara Drake‘s poetry collection Driving 100 implies the larger theme of the book as a whole: the past in all its mystery and wonder, driving relentlessly into the dark. Portland translator and poet Carlos Reyes‘s The Book of Shadows harvests at least 30 years of his poetry and includes recent work.
Douglas Coupland (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Mirroring his debut novel, Generation X, Douglas Coupland’s Generation A (Scribner) explores new ways of storytelling in a digital world. Imaginative, inventive, and fantastically entertaining, Generation A is his most ambitious work to date.
You can find other events on your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County.
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