Tonight 4-26: Peter Ames Carlin at Looking Glass Bookstore

Today’s Featured Book Event:

Oregon Writers Colony Presents: Peter Ames Carlin (Looking Glass Bookstore, @7:00pm): Peter Ames Carlin is a journalist and occasional writer of books, a resident of Portland, Oregon, an occasional modern dancer (no, really) and so much more, or possibly less, depending on your perspective. He is also the author of Paul McCartney: A Life (Touchstone, November, 2009) and Catch A Wave: The Rise, Fall And Redemption Of The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson (Rodale, 2006). These days he serves The O as a roving cultural reporter, a job which changes from day to day according to whim, fact and fancy. Mostly whim.

Other Book Events Today:

Simon Cordery (In Other Words Women’s Books & Resources, @7:00pm): In Mother Jones: Raising Cain and Consciousness (University of New Mexico Press), Simon Cordery explores the complexities, limitations and possibilities of the life of Mother Jones. His biography presents a compelling portrait of this amazing woman and brings to life the dramatic times through which she lived and to which she contributed so much.

David Vann (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): In semi-autobiographical stories set largely in David Vann’s native Alaska, Legend of a Suicide (University of Massachusetts) follows Roy Fenn from his birth on an island at the edge of the Bering Sea to his return 30 years later to confront the turbulent emotions and complex legacy of his father’s suicide.

Patrick Somerville (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): The Cradle (Back Bay Books), Patrick Somerville’s “magical debut novel” (New York Times), radiates with wry wisdom and candor as it takes the reader on a surprising journey into the heart of marriage, parenthood, and the meaning of family.

PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series Features: Michael Rohd and Swoon (Portland State, Shattuck Hall Annex, @7:30pm): Michael Rohd of Sojourn Theater and Swoon will lecture about their work! The public is invited (its free, tell your friends).

Rigoberto González (Milagro Theatre, @7:30pm): In conjunction with PEN American Center’s 2010 World Voices Festival in New York, Literary Arts & Miracle Theatre Group present Rigoberto González. González (Mexico/U.S.) is the author of eight books, most recently the young adult novel The Mariposa Club and a short story collection, Men Without Bliss. He is the recipient of the Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, winner of the American Book Award, and The Poetry Center Book Award. Following the reading will be an in-depth conversation between poet and former Miracle Theatre, Board President, Cindy Williams Gutiérrez and Mr. González, and a Q & A session from the audience at the end of the program.

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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 Peter Ames Carlin.