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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Another Way the River Has Release Party (The Kennedy School, @7:00pm): Acclaimed author Robin Cody is a native speaker who probes the streams and woods and salmon that run to the heart of what it means to live and love, to work and play, in the Pacific Northwest. His prose rings with a sense of place. Another Way the River Has (OSU Press) collects Robin Cody’s finest nonfiction writings. His characters—from loggers to fishers to cowboys to the kids on his school bus—are smart and curious, often offbeat, always vivid. Cody brings the ear of a novelist and the eye of a reporter to the people and places that make the Northwest, and Northwest literature, distinctive.”
Other Book Events Today:
Happy Birthday Beverly Cleary (Hollywood Library, @1:00pm): Beverly Cleary, beloved author of children’s books about Ramona, Henry, Beezus and Ribsy, was born on April 12th. We are having a party to celebrate with cupcakes, balloons, and nightcrawlers too (if you’re a fan you’ll understand). April 12th is also D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything and Read) Day, a national reading program featured in “Ramona Quimby, Age 8.” Drop in and help us celebrate!
Author Talk: Gregory Nokes (West Linn Library, @6:30pm): Gregory Nokes will speak about his book Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon (OSU Press), the first authoritative account of the long-forgotten 1887 massacre of as many as 34 Chinese gold miners in Oregon’s Hells Canyon, the deepest canyon in North America.
2010 Children’s Author Lecture: Jane Yolen (First Congregational Church, @7:00pm, $10 adults/$5 for students): Jane Yolen is a prolific and award-wining author, poet, and anthologist. Her first book was published in 1961 and more than 300 have followed, from How do Dinosaurs say Good Night?, to The Devil’s Arithmetic, to Commander Toad, to Briar Rose. Newsweek called Jane Yolen “the Hans Christian Andersen of America” and the New York Times called her “a modern equivalent of Aesop.” She’s a pithy and humorous speaker, bound to surprise you with keen observations on writing and storytelling. Please join us!
Gregg Olsen (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): True-crime author and novelist Gregg Olsen presents two new books. A Twisted Faith (St. Martin’s) investigates the true story of a minister who murdered his wife and seduced four of his female congregants. Victim Six (Pinnacle) is the story of a married-couple-killing-team that captures, rapes, and kills through the most vile exploits imaginable.
Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): Set against the backdrop of one of the Civil Rights movement’s lesser-known stories, Ana Maria Spagna’s Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus (University of Nebraska) — winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction prize — deftly weaves cultural and personal history, memoir, and reportage in a fascinating look at an American family.
Rebecca Skloot (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Crown), Rebecca Skloot brilliantly weaves together the story of Henrietta Lacks — a woman whose cells have been unwittingly used for scientific research since the 1950s — with the birth of bioethics and the dark history of medical experimentation on African Americans.
PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series Features: Stephanie Syjuco (Portland State, Shattuck Hall Annex, @7:30pm): Stephanie Syjuco will lecture about his work! The public is invited (its free, tell your friends).
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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 OSU Press.
