Tonight 12-1: Willamette Writers hosts the Writer's Faire at The Old Church

Today’s Featured Book Event:

Willamette Writers hosts the Writer’s Faire (The Old Church, @6:30pm): The Writer’s Faire is an opportunity for local authors to promote their work, sell books and “sound off” on upcoming releases and/or events in the writing community. The event will feature table space where authors may sign/sell their books as well as an “open mic.”  Doors open at 6:30 pm. Writers Faire is free to members of Willamette Writers and the public. Refreshments are served.  Check out Teresa Bergen’s preview of the Writers Faire.

Other Book Events Today:

Helen Deutsch Lecture: “The Scaffold in the Marketplace” (Lewis & Clark College, Miller Center for the Humanities, room 105, @3:30pm): Helen Deutsch is a Professor of English at ULCA. Her talk is titled, “The Scaffold in the Marketplace: Johnson, Hawthorne and the Romance of Authorship.” She will discuss Samuel Johnson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and each author’s relation to (and anxieties about) the literary marketplace.

Deutsch is the author of Loving Dr. Johnson (Chicago, 2005) and Resemblance and Disgrace: Alexander Pope and the Deformation of Culture (Harvard, 1996), and she co-edited “Defects”: Engendering the Modern Body (Michigan, 2000). She teaches and researches at the crossroads of eighteenth-century studies and disability studies, with particular emphases on questions of authorship, originality, and embodiment across a variety of genres.

Adult Discussion Group (Holgate Library, @6:30pm): Enjoy lively discussion with neighbors on a range of topics, including literature, current events, issues of our time and more. If you wish, bring your knitting, crocheting, needlework or other craft project to work on while you converse.

The Fearless Critic Portland Restaurant Guide (Powell’s City of Books, @7:30pm): Cheeky, opinionated, and totally independent from the places reviewed, Fearless Critic Portland Restaurant Guide, edited by Robin Goldstein, is a new kind of restaurant guide. Brutally honest yet entertaining reviews are written by teams of undercover local food critics and professional chefs who don’t identify themselves, don’t defer to sacred cows, and don’t accept free meals. With 300 full-page reviews, 60 pages of reference lists, and a special vegetarian guide, this is an essential reference for anyone who eats out in the area.

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