Tonight 2-11: Sarah Gottesdiener and Dexter Flowers at In Other Words Books

Today’s Featured Book Event:

Sarah Gottesdiener and Dexter Flowers Zine Release (In Other Words Women’s Books & Resources, @7:00pm, $2): Sarah Gottesdiener and Dexter Flowers present an art book opening. Flowers and Gottesdiener have created a limited edition art book/zine. The two have been close friends and collaborators for years, and both are trying something new–writing for Gottesdiener, and art/ for Flowers, together, in one book. Dexter Flowers is a Portland Writer. Her work has been published in Baby, Remember My Name, It’s so You, Portland Queer, and she has toured the U.S.A. with Sister Spit. Sarah Gottesdiener is an artist, musician, and designer. A recent series of work, “Yoko & Moon”, was published by Publication Studio in 2009. Featuring readings by celebrated local writers Wayne Bund and Hope Hitchcock. (all are invited to karaoke after!)

Other Book Events Today:

Morning Book Group (Hillsboro Main Library, @10:00am): Join us for a lively discussion of a variety of fiction and non-fiction books. Title for February is Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.

Visiting Writers Series: Ross Gay (Reed College, Psychology 105, @6:30pm): Ross Gay’s book, Against Which, was a finalist for ForeWord magazine’s poetry book of the year. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Margie: The American Journal of Poetry, among other journals. He is an assistant professor of poetry at Indiana University in Bloomington, and also teaches in Drew University’s low-residency MFA program in poetry. Ross Gay will also lead a colloquium, “Syntax, some questions about; or, Questions about some syntax; or, Some questions about syntax,” at 6:10 p.m., Tuesday, February 9, in GCC–D.

Second Thursday Open Mic featuring Laura Winter (Cover to Cover Books-Vancouver, @7:00pm): Laura Winter’s new book, Coming Here to Be Alone, is a bilingual English-German edition focused on the High Desert and Great Basin. The western landscape with all its hoo doos, headlands, basin and range, whitewater and rain are the foundation from which she works. Winter’s love for improvised music also informs how she approaches using the English language. Laura has written for and performed with jazz musicians and improvisers in the US and Europe. Her work has been widely published, translated, and set to music for an art song series. She currently publishes the occasional TAKE OUT, a bag-a-zine of art, writing and music that features powerful voices from around the globe. Sleeping Leaves will also be available for $8. Everyone who purchases a book at this event will receive a free broadside.

Gregg Olsen (Murder by the Book, @7:00pm): Washington author Gregg Olsen returns to M.B.T.B. with his latest thriller, Victim Six. Gregg tells the chilling story of a husband and wife with an extraordinarily evil hobby and the two women who try to stop them.

Deadly Diversions Mystery Book Group (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): This month we meet to discuss In the Woods by Tana French. Join us!

Myrlin Hermes (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet (Harper) is Myrlin Hermes’s witty and wise reimagining of Hamlet. Laced with quotes, references, bed tricks, and a bisexual love-triangle inspired by Shakespeare’s own sonnets, this novel will upend everything readers think they know about the Danish prince.

The Manual of Detection (Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): In Jedediah Berry’s tightly plotted debut novel, The Manual of Detection (Penguin Books), an unlikely detective, armed only with an umbrella and a singular handbook, must untangle a string of crimes committed in and through people’s dreams. The Boston Globe calls it “meticulously written and plotted,” while the New Yorker dubs it “the kind of mannered fantasy that might result if Wes Anderson were to adapt Kafka.”

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 In Other Words Women’s Books & Resources.