Shopping Bag
My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Kevin Sampsell (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): From writer and Future Tense publisher Kevin Sampsell comes A Common Pornography (Harper Perennial), a searing memoir, told in vignettes, that captures the history of an American family. Intertwining recollections of small-town youth with darker threads of family history, Sampsell reveals how incest, madness, betrayal, and death can seem positively normal. “Embarrassing and honest, heartbreaking and hilarious,” hails Willy Vlautin, author of Northline and The Motel Life. “A great memoir from one of the Northwest’s best writers.”
Other Book Events Today:
Title Raves-Book Blogs (Central Library, @12:00pm): Explore the online book scene with local literary bloggers Laini Taylor, Alison Hallett, Gabe Barber and Emily-Jane Dawson.
For the Love of Crafts: Woven Scrap Journals (North Portland Library, @6:00pm): Get crafty for Valentine’s Day, or just for the love of crafts. Turn a simple piece of cardboard into a loom — and then, turn your finished weaving into a useful blank book! This project is a great way to use up paper and cardboard from your recycle bin and scraps of fabric leftover from other projects.
Willamette Writers Portland Meeting featuring Ellen Urbani (The Old Church, @7:00pm): Ellen Urbani will speak to the Portland chapter of Willamette Writers about writing memoirs and the pitfalls and joys of writing memoir from points of view not directly experienced. She is the author of When I Was Elena. For more meeting information, visit the Willamette Writers website. For more information about Ellen, visit her website.
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 Powell’s Books.
