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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Patti Smith (Bagdad Theater, @7:00pm): Patti Smith’s evocative, honest, and moving coming-of-age story reveals her extraordinary relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. Part romance, part elegy, Just Kids (Ecco) is about friendship in the truest sense, and the artist’s calling. Please note: This ticketed event takes place at the Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Tickets, $27, include admission and a copy of Just Kids, and are available at the Bagdad Theater, the Crystal Ballroom, and Ticketmaster.
Other Book Events Today:
How to Start a Mother-Daughter Book Club (Northwest Library, @3:00pm): Girls, bring your moms to this interactive workshop with Cindy Hudson, author of “Book by Book: The Complete Guide to Creating Mother-Daughter Book Clubs.” Learn how to get your friends and moms together to talk about your favorite books.
Terrific Tuesday featuring Mark Fearing (West Linn Library, @6:30pm): This hilariously dark story, The Book That Eats People, will be read by the books illustrator Mark Fearing (who is from West Linn!). Mark will also show art from some of his upcoming book projects. For ages 5 and up.
Garrison Keillor (Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, @7:30pm, $25 and up): The Oregon Symphony hosts the much loved radio host of A Prairie Home Companion. Keillor walks and talks the best of Americana. His masterful storytelling about life in the Midwest paints pictures that range from grade-school crushes, growing up in a low thermostat household, to the wonderful cast of folks populating his beloved Lake Wobegon.
You can find other events on your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County, and the rest of this weeks Portland book events here.
Image credit Ecco.
