Today’s Featured Book Event:

Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge (Reading Frenzy, @7:00pm): Reading Frenzy is excited to host Gordon Edgar during his visit to Portland in celebration of the recent release of Cheesemonger: Life on the Wedge, a memoir of Gordon’s unlikely move from punk-rock political activist to a serious career as a cheesemonger at San Francisco’s worker-owned Rainbow Grocery Cooperative! Gordon Edgar is the cheesemonger for Rainbow Grocery Cooperative, San Francisco’s biggest independent grocery store and the country’s largest retail worker co-op. He helps organize national and regional worker-cooperative conferences and regional cheese conferences, and serves on the board of directors for the California Artisan Cheese Guild. Edgar’s writing has been published by HipMama.com, Clamor Magazine, MaximumRocknRoll and Zine World.  Free beer from Ninkasi!

Other Book Events Today:

Reading Fair (University of Portland, Chiles Center, 11:00am): The fair’s theme, “Trees, Seeds and Leaves: Grow a Reader,” is designed to engage students from pre-kindergarten to middle school. Events throughout the day include arts, crafts and games that focus on literacy as well as recycling. Also present will be an obstacle course, a puppeteer, and storytelling performances. Every student will receive a free, new book of their choice for attending.  The event, hosted by the University’s School of Education, is free and open to the public.

The Man Who Ate His Boots (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): In The Man Who Ate His Boots (Knopf), Anthony Brandt tells the fascinating whole story of the search for the Northwest Passage, from its beginnings early in the age of exploration, through its development into a British national obsession, and on to the final sordid descent into scurvy, starvation, and cannibalism.

Spare Room presents Canarium Books Reading Tour: John Beer, Ish Klein, & Paul Killebrew (Concordia Coffee House, @7:30pm): Established in 2008 and sponsored by the University of Michigan MFA Program in Creative Writing, Canarium Books is dedicated to publishing poetry by established and emerging authors from the United States and abroad. On the Canarium 2010 West Coast reading tour, John Beer, Ish Klein, & Paul Killebrew will read from their new books.  Check out the Spare Room website for further info.

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 Reading Frenzy.

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