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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
“City Folk” Release Party (Portland City Hall, @5:00pm): Stumptown Underground is quite pleased to announce that our “City Folk” release party will be held at Portland City Hall! You’ll be able to meet and greet with the issue’s contributors, purchase copies of “City Folk” for $5 (contributors get 2 copies each) before all your friends, as well as partake in choice beverages provided by Widmere Brewery and Stumptown Underground for your enjoyment.
Other Book Events Today:
Christopher Moore (Bagdad Theater, @7:00pm, $24): The undead rise again in Bite Me (William Morrow), the third farcical vampire love story from the wonderfully twisted imagination of New York Times-bestselling author Christopher Moore. Tickets, $24, include admission and a copy of Bite Me, and are available at the Bagdad Theater, the Crystal Ballroom, and Ticketmaster.
Roving Writers Roam to North Portland (Posies Cafe, @7:00pm): Reading prose and poetry with open mic to follow.
Cherie Priest (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): Cherie Priest’s award-winning novel Boneshaker (Tor) is an extremely entertaining extrapolation of the increasingly popular steampunk and zombie genres. “A steampunk-zombie-airship adventure of rollicking pace and sweeping proportions, full of wonderfully gnarly details,” declares Scott Westerfeld, author of Leviathan.
Jo Nesbo (Murder by the Book, @7:00pm): Jo Nesbo is one of Norway’s premiere writers. The Devil’s Star is the third in the series starring Harry Hole, a Norwegian police inspector. (His books The Redbreast and Nemesis, the first two in the series, were previously released in English.) The Redbreast was awarded the distinction of “Best Norwegian Crime Novel Ever Written” by the Norwegian book clubs in 2004. Jo, who lives in Oslo, is also a musician and economist.
Sam Lipsyte (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Grasping after odd jobs to support his wife and child, university fundraiser Milo Burke is offered one last chance by his former employer: he must reel in a potential donor — a major ask — who turns out to be Milo’s sinister college classmate. And the give won’t come cheap. The Ask (Farrar Straus Giroux) is “a brilliant and scabrously entertaining riff on contemporary America” (Kirkus, starred review).
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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 Stumptown Underground.
