Today’s Featured Book Event:

Kevin Sampsell and Friends (Templeton Building-230 E. Burnside, @8:00pm, $7): Disjecta presents Kevin Sampsell, who will read from his memoir A Common Pornography.  With special guests Frayn Masters and Nathaniel Boggess.

Other Book Events Today:

Friends of Hillsboro Library Spring Book Sale (Hillsboro Main Library, @10:00am): The Friends of the Hillsboro Public Library are having the Spring Book Sale in the Meeting Room during regular library hours. For more information about the Friends, visit their website.

Mike Reiss (Lucky Lab-Hawthorne, 7:00pm): Simpson’s writer/producer, and Inkwater Press children’s book author, Mike Reiss, will speak to aspiring authors and fans. Doors open at 6:30 and the event will begin at 7 PM. Reiss will talk about writing, and also answer questions from the audience. This free event is family friendly.

Henry Winkler Presents “A Brand-New Me!” (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): Inspired by the true-life experiences of Henry Winkler (perhaps better known as The Fonz on Happy Days), whose undiagnosed dyslexia made him a classic childhood underachiever, the Hank Zipzer series chronicles high-spirited and funny adventures of a boy with learning differences. With A Brand-New Me!, it’s graduation time for Hank and all his friends — time to move on from PS 87 to middle school. Trouble is, there are tests Hank has to pass to get into the same middle schools as his friends, and his learning differences might get in the way. Luckily, a life-altering audition at a performing arts middle school helps him find his true path.

Binford Reading Series presents David Shields (Marylhurst University, Villa Maria, @7:30pm): Prose writer David Shields reads from his latest book, Reality Hunger. Shields is the author of eight previous books and has received a Guggenheim fellowship, two NEA fellowships, among other awards. His work has been translated into ten languages. He lives with his wife and daughter in Seattle, where he is a professor in the English department at the University of Washington. Shields will also take place in a conversation with Jay Ponteri about fatherhood, art, and reality at 12:00pm in the Marylhurst Art Gym.

Craig Welch (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Craig Welch’s Shell Games (William Morrow) is a delightfully offbeat true-crime tale set in the rough-and-tumble heart of one of America’s strangest subcultures, a double-crossing world where tough men and women fight turf wars over shellfish.

Mortified PDX (Mission Theater, @8:00pm,$10 online/$12 door): Hailed a “cultural phenomenon” by Newsweek, Mortified is a comic excavation of the strange and extraordinary things we created as kids. Witness your fellow Portlanders sharing their own adolescent journals, letters, poems, lyrics, home movies, stories and more.

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You can find other events on your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County.

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