Shopping Bag
My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Loggernaut presents Jennifer Richter, Keith Scribner, and Dao Strom (Urban Grind East, @7:30pm $3-5 suggested donation): Jennifer Richter is a former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University and the author of the poetry collection, Threshold, forthcoming from Southern Illinois University Press. Her work has appeared in many journals, including Poetry, Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, and the anthology A Fierce Brightness: Twenty- five Years of Womenʼs Poetry.
Keith Scribner is the author of the novels Miracle Girl and The Good Life (chosen by the New York Times as a Notable Book of the Year and by Barnes and Noble for its Discover Great New Writers series). He teaches in the MFA program at Oregon State. His third novel, The Oregon Experiment, will be released by Knopf in the Spring of 2011.
Born in Vietnam, Dao Strom has published two books of fiction, Grass Roof, Tin Roof (2003) and The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys (2006), and released two albums, Send Me Home (2004) and Everything That Blooms Wrecks Me (2008). She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, a James Michener Fellowship, and first prize in the Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Award. She recently settled in Portland with her son and husband.
Other Book Events Today:
Evening Book Group (Hillsboro Main Library, @6:45am): Join a lively discussion of a popular fiction or nonfiction book. This month’s selection is “The Shadow of the Wind” by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
Verse in Person featuring Scot Siegel and David Elsey (Northwest Library, @7:00pm): Listen to Oregon poets read from their works. This monthly program is organized by local poets to highlight two to three poets each reading.
Evening Book Group (Tigard Public Library, @7:00pm): The Evening Book Group invites readers to discuss John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath. First published in 1939, The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. This Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family who is forced off their land by the “land companies” and decide to travel west to the promised land of California.
Ledding Library Book Club (Milwaukie Ledding Library, @7:00pm): We will discuss Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen. Join Us!
Catholic Writers Debate (University of Portland Bookstore, @7:00pm): The University of Portland will host a ‘Catholic Writers Debate’ featuring theology professor Rev. Charles Gordon, C.S.C., an expert on Catholic writers, and Portland Magazine editor and author Brian Doyle. It is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Garaventa Center for Catholic Intellectual Life and American Culture.
Classics Book Group (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): This month we meet to discuss War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Join us!
Jim Wallis (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): Rather than join the throngs asking, “When will this economic crisis be over?” New York Times-bestselling author Jim Wallis (God’s Politics) says the right question to ask is “How will this crisis change us?” In the pages of Rediscovering Values (Howard Books), Wallis provides us with a moral compass for this new economy — one that will guide us on Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street.
Open Mic Night (Marylhurst University, Wiegand Recital Hall, @7:00pm): The Marylhurst Writers’ Club is hosting an Open Mic night. The quarterly event is organized to provide a forum for performers to practice public presentations of their creative works. All writers, musicians, singers are welcome to perform. Come, sign up, share your talent, and enjoy the gathering.
Gina Ochsner (Annie Bloom’s Books, @7:30pm): The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight is the debut novel by acclaimed short story master Gina Ochsner. In a crumbling apartment building in post-Soviet Russia, there’s a ghost who won’t keep quiet. Mircha fell from the roof and was never properly buried, so he sticks around to heckle the living: his wife, Azade; Olga, a translator/censor for a military newspaper; Yuri, an army veteran who always wears an aviator’s helmet; and Tanya.
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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