Shopping Bag
My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Willy Vlautin (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Author Willy Vlautin — “a major realist talent” (Seattle Post Intelligencer) who is often compared to Raymond Carver, John Steinbeck, and Denis Johnson — returns with Lean on Pete (Harper Perennial), the story of a 15-year-old boy struggling to make his way to a long lost aunt, who just might give him a home.
Other Book Events Today:
Anthology of Sierra Leonean Poetry Reading (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): A whole slew of local poets will descend on the store to read from Kalashnikov in the Sun: An Anthology of Sierra Leonean Poets edited by Kirsten Rian. This amazing collection gives voice to a country long troubled by war. Here, we see the writers, poets and truth-tellers express their anguish and longing for peace and healing. Each poet will read a poem from the book as well as one of his/her own. Besides Kirsten, we will welcome the following poets: Judith Arcana, Sharon Wood Wortman, Clem Starck, Paulann Petersen, Barbara LaMorticella, Rich Wandschneider, Paul Merchant, Willa Schneberg, John Morrison, Carlos Reyes, Nancy Flynn, Lisa Nasshan, Sue Einowski, Michael Achterman, and Sean McGillis.
The Big Book of Gross Stuff (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): From boogers and belches to sneezes, diseases, and demon cheeses, Bart King’s children’s book, The Big Book of Gross Stuff (Gibbs Smith), is a hilarious look at science, nature, and the human body.
Martha Shelley (In Other Words Women’s Books & Resources, @7:00pm): Martha Shelley will read from her new novel The Throne in The Heart of the Sea. Shelley is the author of 3 books of poetry, numerous essays, and short stories. She currently resides in Portland with her wife Sylvia Allen.
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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 Powell’s Books.
