Tonight 3-1: 1,000 Words Reading Series at The Maiden

Today’s Featured Book Event:

1,000 Words Reading Series (The Maiden, @7:00pm): 1,000 Words returns with a terrific slate of readers and our beloved former house band to tackle four prompts on the theme RESOLVE. Four writers each wrote four 250 word snippets of literary genius, including phrases and words provided by the series curator; they’ll perform alongside a duo headed by Reid Trevarthen, half of the We Play Quiet Brain Trust, offering musical renditions of the prompts. Free, fanciful, not to be missed. Reading: Nick Carter (New kid on the block, but we expect great things!); Joe Pitkin (for the FOURTH time now, Joe? Well, we never get enough of you…); Jacob Aiello (Also a 1K Words frequent flyer–more impressive than ever); and featuring Ethan Camp (he’s been penning emo-punk songs to the prompts for more than a year in the band–now, he’ll take the mike spoken-style).

Other Book Events Today:

Adult Book Club (West Linn Library, @6:45pm): Join the adult book club to discuss The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers. The Adult Book Club focuses on contemporary literary fiction, although non-fiction and classic works are read as well. All titles are selected by the members of the Book Club.

Caffeinated Art No. 84 (Three Friends Coffee House, @7:00pm): Jeff Ettlin, Ana Hurtado-Gonzalez and Davey Plunk present a brave poetic and musical attempt at creating Star Wars poetry for accordion and guitar.

Susan Kirschner (Lewis & Clark College, Manor House, Armstrong Lounge, @7:00pm): Susan Kirschner is a senior lecturer in the humanities at Lewis & Clark, where she teaches creative non-fiction. She has written essays on Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, and pedagogy. Her current project is a memoir about her family’s life in pre-WWII Austria, and their flight on the eve of war.

Max Watman (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Journalist Max Watman’s Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw’s Adventures in Moonshine (Simon and Schuster) offers an intoxicating look at the inner workings of the moonshine business. According to Publishers Weekly, “[Watman's] historical writing is lively as well, and he profiles fascinating, little-known characters and events.”

Shane Harris (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): Using exclusive access to key insiders, Shane Harris’s The Watchers (Penguin) charts the rise of America’s surveillance state over the past 25 years and highlights a dangerous paradox: the government’s strategy has made it harder to catch terrorists and easier to spy on civilians.

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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