Shopping Bag
My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Ariel Gore (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): A woman’s happiness may not come easy, and it may not take the forms prescribed by popular culture, but, as Ariel Gore chronicles in Bluebird (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), it is necessary. This uplifting study identifies the real secret of joy and reveals whether it’s truly at odds with the goals of modern women. “Ideal for Eat, Pray, Love fans in search of positive psychological theory,” says Kirkus Reviews.
Other Book Events Today:
Write Around Portland 10-Week Workshop (Powells City of Books, @6:15pm): Based on their acclaimed community writing model, this generative workshop incorporates favorite exercises to inspire the writing life. Workshop fee ($285.00) includes free parking, snacks, and access to the “Bowels of Powell’s.” Fee helps fund workshops for low income youth and adults. To register, or for more information, visit www.writearound.org.
The Gift and the Commons: Creativity and the Public Good with Lewis Hyde (PNCA, Swiegert Commons, @6:30pm): A poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic, Lewis Hyde is most widely known for his book, The Gift, a groundbreaking study of creativity in a market-driven world, re-released in 2007 in celebration of its 25th anniversary. Hyde asks questions central to the lives of artists as well as teachers and others who serve the public good: How do we discover work that satisfies beyond financial compensation? What are our norms for reciprocity and how do gifts create bonds in communities? His current project extends these questions to the realm of the “cultural commons” — “that vast store of un-owned ideas, inventions, and works of art we have inherited from the past, and that we continue to create.” In his lecture, Hyde will discuss personal gifts, the creative spirit, and our shared cultural past and imagined future. A MacArthur Fellow, Hyde teaches during the fall semesters at Kenyon College, where he is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing. The lecture is co-presented by PNCA and Lewis and Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling Center for Community Engagement.
Oregon Literary Review co-hosts First Wednesdays (Blackbird Wineshop, @7:00pm): First Wednesdays is a series of readings, performances and wine-tasting. Readers for February 3 are Ana Callan, Alissa Nielsen, Lauren Schmidt, and Bennett Huffman.
CFI/Freethinkers Book Group (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): This month’s nonfiction book group meets to discuss How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer. Join us!
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.
