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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Ariel Gore (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): Ariel Gore will read from her latest book, Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux). Discovering that many “experts” believe that women with feminist values are somehow less “happy” than those in more traditional roles, Ms. Gore asks the following question: Can a woman be smart, empowered, and happy? Written by a woman of intense wit and boundless curiosity, this book looks at the history, science, and experience of women’s happiness. It is a smart, no-nonsense, and uplifting study of the real secret of joy and whether it is truly at odds with the goals of modern women.
Other Book Events Today:
Heidi Durrow (Portland State, Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 236, @2:00pm): Durrow is co-host of the live weekly podcast Mixed Chicks Chat, Executive Director of the annual Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival, and author of The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, 2008 winner of the Bellwether Prize for Fiction that addresses issues of social justice and the impact of culture and politics of human relationships. Durrow will discuss her identity as a biracial woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white, and societies ideas of race, class, and beauty.
Babymouse Takes Hollywood! (Hollywood Library, @6:30pm): Meet the brother and sister team behind the very popular Babymouse graphic novels. Matt and Jenni Holm will tell us where they get their ideas, how they’ve turned them into a great story for kids and what’s coming next. Matt will be drawing as he speaks and will bring some of his original art work to share. Book signing to follow the presentation.
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky (IFCC, @7:00pm): Heidi Durrow grew up in IFCC‘s theatre program in the 1980’s. This neighborhood kid has grown up to be a woman of astonishing talent- a graduate of Stanford, Columbia Journalism and Yale Law Heidi has been a lawyer, actor, martial arts champion, engineer, world traveler and is always a writer. Come share this homecoming with her and celebrate her Bellwether Prize winning book: a coming-of-age story and society’s ideas of race, class, and beauty.
Tokyo Vice (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): From Jake Adelstein, the only American journalist ever admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, comes Tokyo Vice (Pantheon), a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. Adelstein tells the riveting, often humorous tale of his journey from an inexperienced cub reporter — who made rookie mistakes like getting into a martial-arts battle with a senior editor — to a daring investigative journalist with a price on his head. Publishers Weekly calls it “a deeply thought-provoking book: equal parts cultural expose, true crime, and hard-boiled noir.” This event is co-sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Oregon.
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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