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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Read to Rebuild-A Haiti Benefit Reading (The Writers’ Dojo, @7:00pm, $10 Suggested Donation): Reading Local’s first event! Come hear from some of Portland’s finest including Ariel Gore, Margaret Malone, Laura Moulton, Ben Parzybok, Kevin Sampsell, and Tom Spanbauer. Music provided by Sweeter Than Later, and free wine courtesy of Cameron Hughes Wine. Also featuring a raffle with gift cards and other prizes up for grabs! All proceeds benefit Mercy Corps in their ongoing efforts to assist the disaster relief in Haiti. See our event page for further details.
Other Book Events Today:
Elizabeth Eslami (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): Veneta resident Elizabeth Eslami will be here to read from her new novel, Bone Worship (Pegasus Books). This is a rich and soul-searching novel about an Iranian-American girl whose enigmatic father has decided to arrange her marriage. Jasmine Fahroodhi’s story begins just as she is flunking out of college, getting over a failed romance, and moving back in with her parents – her prim American mother and her mysterious Iranian father. Confused and furious, yet intrigued by her father’s plan to marry her off within one year, Jasmine meets many suitors and learns much about familial and romantic love, and the truth about her evasive father.
Richard H. Engeman (Lake Oswego Library, @7:00pm): The Lake Oswego Library is pleased to present local author Richard H. Engeman as part of the Library’s Third Tuesday Author Series. Richard H. Engeman is a historian and archivist with wide research and writing experience in Pacific Northwest history. Engeman has specialized in working with historical photographs, maps, architectural plans and drawings, and paper ephemera, and his writing has appeared in a variety of publications. He is the author of a recent award-winning unit of the Oregon Historical Society’s online Oregon History Project, Wooden Beams and Railroad Ties: the History of Oregon’s Built Environment. In 2009, Timber Press released The Oregon Companion: an Historical Gazetteer of the Useful, the Curious and the Arcane, and White House Grocery Press issued his Eating It Up in Eden: the Oregon Century Farm & Ranch Cookbook.
Chang-rae Lee (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Combining the complex themes of identity in his novels Native Speaker and A Gesture Life with the broad range, energy, and pure storytelling of Aloft, Chang-rae Lee has delivered his most ambitious work yet with The Surrendered (Riverhead). “A harrowing tale: bleak, haunting, often heartbreaking — and not to be missed,” proclaims Publishers Weekly (starred review).
The Uncanny Physics of Superhero Comic Books (Lewis & Clark College, Templeton Campus Center, @7:30pm): James Kakalios, a physics professor at the University of Minnesota, is this year’s Robert B. Pamplin Jr. Society of Fellows Distinguished Visiting Scholar. In his lecture, Kakalios will explore the applications of physics on superheroes, the subject of a course he teaches at the University of Minnesota. This class covers everything from Isaac Newton to the transistor, using only examples from superhero comic books. Kalakios says superhero comic books get their science right more often than one might expect. So, anyone who has wondered how strong you would have to be to “leap a tall building in a single bound” should attend the lecture.
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.
