Shopping Bag
My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Visiting Writers Series: Jon Raymond (Reed College, Psychology 105, @6:30pm): Jon Raymond is the author of The Half-Life, a novel, and Livability, a collection of short stories named as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick for Spring 2009. He is an editor at Plazm magazine and his writing has appeared in Artforum, Bookforum, Tin House, and The Village Voice, among other publications. For more information, visit the Visiting Writers website.
Other Book Events Today:
Diane Jacobs (A Children’s Place Bookstore, @4:00pm): Illustrator Diane Jacobs will read, sign, and discuss Grappling with the Grumblies. Everyone grapples with the grumblies from time to time, but this lovely (and funny!) book will help your child—and you—discover new ways of dealing with difficult feelings.
VoiceCatcher 4 Reading (Looking Glass Bookstore, @7:00pm): VoiceCatcher 4 editors and contributors invite you to celebrate the diverse voices of local women writers reading new poetry and prose selections from the latest annual anthology. Readers include: Ariel Frager, Amy Katz, Carolyn Martin, Alida Rol, Cecilie Scott, and JS Nahani. VoiceCatcher is a non-profit collective offering both experienced and emerging writers the venue to publish their work and receive respectful feedback.
Darlene Pagán (Paper Tiger Coffee House-Vancouver, @7:00pm): Darlene Pagán is a writer and educator, mother and wife, scholar and activist, whose poems have appeared, or are forthcoming in Hiram Poetry Review, Two Review: An International Journal of Poetry and Creative Nonfiction, Willow Springs, The Birmingham Poetry Review, and VoiceCatcher. Her essays have appeared in The Nebraska Review, Literal Latté, and Mother Writer’s Literary Magazine. Her hobbies include playing troll in the Billie Goats Gruff and looking for worms in the rain with her two toddler boys. She has just completed her first book of poems, titled Something’s Liable to Break, and is already at work on another.
Dana Stabenow (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): A Night Too Dark (Minotaur) is the 17th book in New York Times-bestselling author Dana Stabenow’s series chronicling life, death, love, tragedy, mischief, controversy, nature, and survival in Alaska — America’s last real frontier. This time, smart, sexy P.I. Kate Shugak, her wolf/husky hybrid Mutt, and Chopper Jim are only just beginning to realize the fallout from the discovery of the world’s second-largest gold mine in their backyard. Publishers Weekly proclaims, “Stabenow deftly explores the environmental and economic impact of gold mining in her sizzling 17th novel.”
Crossing the Gates of Alaska (Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): In the spirit of Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, seasoned wilderness survivalist Dave Metz takes on Alaska’s backcountry in his most daring trek to date. Crossing the Gates of Alaska: One Man, Two Dogs, 600 Miles on the Map (Citadel) is Metz’s inspiring account of survival on a death-defying trek across the perilous Alaskan Arctic.
Binford Reading Series presents Debra Spark (Marylhurst University, Villa Maria, @7:30pm): Fiction writer Debra Spark will read from her latest novel. Spark teaches creative writing at Colby College in Maine and is an award-winning author of three novels: Coconuts for the Saint, The Ghost of Bridgetown, and Good for the Jews. She’s also published a book of craft essays, titled, Curious Attractions: Essays on Fiction Writing.
Visiting Writers Series: Bonnie Jo Campbell (Pacific University, Taylor Auditorium, @7:30pm): A prize-winning poet and novelist, Bonnie Jo Campbell’s energy and biting wit make her work laugh out-loud funny and dazzling. Campbell is the author of the novel Q Road, and the story collection Women & Other Animals. Her second story collection, American Salvage was published to acclaim in the Spring of 2009 and has been nominated for a National Book Award. She has won the AWP award for short fiction and a Pushcart prize, and she was named a Barnes & Noble Great New Writer. The New York Times has called her stories “Bitter, but sweetened by humor,” and Publisher’s Weekly said Campbell details, “domestic worlds where Martha Stewart would fear to tread.”
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.
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