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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Entertainment for the People (The Woods, @8:00pm, $10/12 online/$14 at the door): A night of really fun stuff, music included! Cold Beer and Naughty Wine will be served! Featuring: ARTHUR BRADFORD, presenting video and stories from his time as writer, producer and director of MTV’s How’s Your News; NATHANIEL BOGGESS, from the band Jetfighter, currently selling out his one-man show This is Not a Date, telling true and revealing stories; FOUREVER YOUNG, aka Ritchie Young from Loch Lomond and his three younger brothers playing pop-tacular tunes; Destination DIY’s JULIE SABATIER and SCRAP digging dirt with a live DIY demo; EASTLAND ACADEMY (Shelley McLendon & Frayn Masters), a funny, smart sketch comedy duo. For more check out RLP’s interview with Arthur and Nathaniel.
Other Book Events Today:
Film Screening: Every War Has Two Losers (Lewis & Clark College, South Campus Conference Center, @12:00pm): Based on the book Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War, edited by Kim Stafford (Milkweed Editions, 2003), this 30-minute documentary film features readings by Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kinston, Naomi Shihab Nye, Coleman Barkes, Michael Meade, W.S. Merwin, and others. Produced and directed by Haydn Reiss (associate producer, Kim Stafford), the film examines the history of violence through war, and alternatives to war through language, personal witness, and cultural engagement. Narrated by Peter Coyote and Linda Hunt, the film closes with the William Stafford poem “At the Un-national Monument,” set to music by John Gorka. Section of documentary were filmed on the Lewis & Clark campus. To view the trailer, visit: everywar.com.
Dr. Regina G. Lawrence and Dr. Melody Rose (Portland State University, University Place, @4:00pm): Hillary Clinton won 18 million votes in 2008—nearly twice that of any presidential contender in recent history—yet she failed to secure the Democratic nomination. What happened? Join us for a conversation with Dr. Regina Lawrence & Dr. Melody Rose as they share their thoughtful analysis and insights into Hillary Clinton’s historic run for the White House, garnered from their new book Hillary Clinton’s Race for the White House.
Visiting Writers Series: Joanne Greenberg (Reed College, Psychology 105, @6:30pm): An internationally known, prize-winning writer, Joanne Greenberg is the author of 14 novels and four collections of short stories. Her second novel, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1964), a classic and poignant representation of recovery from schizophrenia, was translated into numerous languages, made into a movie, and re-issued in 2009 with a new afterward by the author. Her novel, In This Sign (1970), broke new ground in the representation of the deaf. For more information, visit the Visiting Writers website.
April Henry (Sherwood Public Library, @7:00pm): Join us for a fun and informational evening with local, award-winning author April Henry. April’s first book, Circles of Confusion, was short-listed for the Agatha Award and the Anthony Award, and was nominated for the Pacific Northwest Bookseller’s Award…Other books in the Claire Montrose series are Square in the Face, Heart-Shaped Box, and Buried Diamonds…The stand-alone thriller Learning to Fly was April’s fourth book…Shock Point, April’s first young-adult thriller, was published by Putnam in 2006…Her next young-adult book, Torched, a thriller about a girl who goes undercover in an environmental extremist group, was published in March 2009.
Mapping Ghosts, Mapping Filth in Victorian England (Portland State University, Smith Memorial Center, Room 238, @7:00pm): Dr. Pamela Gilbert, Albert Brick Professor of English at the University of Florida and author of “Disease, Desire and the Body in Victorian Women’s Popular Novels,” “Mapping the Victorian Social Body,” “The Citizen’s Body,” and “Cholera and Nation” will talk about disease and culture in Victorian England.
Frank Black and Carl Wilson: A Conversation About Modern Music (Someday Lounge, @7:00pm): Frank Black writes and plays music as a solo artist and as a member of Grand Duchy and The Pixies. Carl Wilson is a Toronto-based music editor for The Globe and Mail and the author of Lets Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste.
Peter Sears and Penelope Scambly Schott (Looking Glass Bookstore, @7:00pm): Peter Sears reads from his latest book of poems Green Diver, and Penelope Scambly Schott from her latest poetry collection Six Lips.
Joanne Fluke (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): In Apple Turnover Murder (Kensington), New York Times-bestselling author Joanne Fluke’s latest murder mystery (with recipes!), it’s June in Lake Eden, Minnesota — and for Hannah Swenson, that means bridal showers galore, not to mention a killer who never learned that charity begins at home.
Open Mic Event (Milwaukie Ledding Library, @7:00pm): Please come to read and enjoy. If you would like to read, you can sign-up by letting Tom Hogan know by phone or e-mail. There will also be a sign-up sheet at the event. Readers will have approximately 5-7 min. to share their own work or some favorite poems. After those who have signed up have read, all who are interested in reading will have their opportunity to read and share. Poems will be available as will refreshments. We also are planning to have a video recording option for those readers who are willing to participate.
Brenda Peterson (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Fundamentalism meets deep ecology in Brenda Peterson’s unusual memoir I Want to Be Left Behind (Da Capo Press). The author’s father, a forest ranger, leads her to embrace the entire natural world, while her Southern Baptist fundamentalist relatives prepare to leave this world. “[A] witty, enrapturing account of a spiritual journey of great relevance to us all,” cheers Booklist (starred review).
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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