Tonight 5-4: Leslie What and Craig Lesley at the Central Library

Today’s Featured Book Event:

Writers Talking: Leslie What and Craig Lesley (Central Library, @6:30pm): Leslie What is a Nebula-Award winning writer, graduate of Pacific University’s MFA in Writing, and author of the story collection Crazy Love. Recent work has appeared in Utne Reader and Serving House. Craig Lesley is the author of four novels, numerous short stories, and, most recently, a memoir. His work has received The Western Writers of America Best Novel of the Year, three Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Association Awards, an Oregon Book Award, and the Medicine Pipe Bearer’s Award. Both Storm Riders and The Sky Fisherman were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

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.

Nez Perce Stories and the Grammar of Place-Making (PSU-Native American Student & Community Center, @2:00pm): Beth Piatote is Assistant Professor of Native American Studies and the University of California Berkeley. She is currently completing the manuscript, Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature, which focuses on legal discourses in the literary works of the following indigenous writers: E. Pauline Johnson, John Oskison, Mourning Dove, Alice Callahan, and D’Arcy McNickle. Piatote’s lecture will be an exploration of her work in the Nez Perce language. She will reveal some of more intriguing features of the language as well as the classic conventions of Nez Perce stories even as she shares those tales and the the theoretical conclusions she has drawn.

David Oates (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): David Oates will be here to read from his latest book, What We Love Will Save Us. This new book records our collective national descent into a propaganda and torture state in the years 2000-2008, and the ways he struggled, as a private citizen, to find an adequate, loving, effective response. (Hint: it involved good wine, truth telling, and lots of long walks.) David’s previous books include City Limits: Walking Portland’s Boundary and Paradise Wild: Reimagining American Nature, both published by Oregon State University Press, and his poetry and essays have appeared in many journals.

Randall Stickrod: The Roadmap to 100 (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): From Randall Stickrod, a founding editor of Wired magazine, and longevity expert Walter M. Bortz, comes The Roadmap to 100 (Macmillan), which uses cutting-edge research to show that we need to take a second look at our preconceptions about growing old.

Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand (Random House), Helen Simonson’s remarkable debut novel, is full of warm, indelible characters, and explores the risks one takes when pursuing happiness in the face of obligation and tradition.

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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 Pacific University.