Today’s Featured Book Event:

Gina Ochsner (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): Award-winning short story writer Gina Ochsner will be here to read from her first novel, The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight. This story, set in a crumbling apartment building in post-Soviet Russia, is about a ghost who won’t keep quiet. This is a crazy, magical, dark but richly redeeming story.

Other Book Events Today:

Beate Sirota Gordon (Portland State, Smith Memorial SU, #355, @6:00pm): You are invited to the lecture “How an American Woman Won Equal Rights for the Women of Japan” by Beate Sirota Gordon, author of The Only Woman in the Room. When a team of young Americans began writing a new constitution for Japan in early 1946, Beate Sirota was enlisted to help. Assigned to the subcommittee dedicated to writing the section of the constitution devoted to civil rights, she insisted upon the insertion into the constitution of a clause guaranteeing equality between men and women. The Constitution of Japan remains unrevised to this day. This lecture is hosted by the Center for Japanese Studies.

WITS Reading (Midland Library, @6:30pm): Writers in the Schools (WITS) is a comprehensive program that cultivates young writers and supports Oregon authors through semester-long writing residencies in the Portland public high schools. Reading will be students from Marshall Campus (Biz Tech, Linus Pauling and Renaissance Arts High Schools) with WITS writers Natalie Serber and Cindy Williams Gutierrez.

Emily Dickinson and the Poetry of Spring (Belmont Library, @6:30pm): “Unto my Books ­– So good to turn.” This year¹s annual spring event at Belmont Library will celebrate the work of Emily Dickinson — along with warm weather — by turning to this poet’s love of reading. With a look ahead toward summer reading, we will talk about Dickinson¹s writing about books and some of her favorite authors. Please join us at this event for readers of all ages. Bring a poem by Dickinson, or any other poet, that honors reading or libraries, or the beauty of the season. Hosted by Holly Springfield, meditation teacher and founder of the Portland Chapter of the Emily Dickinson International Society, and Ellen Louise Hart, Dickinson editor and manuscript scholar.

Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh (Reading Frenzy, @7:00pm): Reading Frenzy is honored to welcome Anne Elizabeth Moore to the shop to discuss her new book, Cambodian Grrrl. The book features six essays about her Riot Grrrl-inspired work teaching self-publishing to some of the brightest young women in one of the poorest countries in the world. This event is free and open to the public, with free beer from Ninkasi Brewing!

Darcy Hitchcock (Lake Oswego Library, @7:00pm): The Lake Oswego Library is pleased to present author Darcy Hitchcock, as part of the Library’s Third Tuesday Author Series. Darcy Hitchcock is the author of a number of business books including the award-winning The Business Guide to Sustainability (now in its second edition) and The Step by Step Guide to Sustainability Planning. Driven by a desire to bring the sustainability message to a wider audience, she recently published Dragonfly’s Question, a novella and discussion course.

Kathi Appelt (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): In Keeper (Atheneum), Newbery Honoree Kathi Appelt enchants with a novel about mermaids, mermen, and what happens when a girl outgrows fairy tales just a little too late.

Phillip Margolin (Annie Bloom’s Books, @7:30pm): Filled with the fast-paced twists and surprises that propelled Executive Privilege, Phillip Margolin’s Supreme Justice (Harper) reunites attorney Brad Miller, FBI agent Keith Evans, and private investigator Dana Cutler to untangle a five-year-old case involving a ghost ship and the president’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Steve Almond (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): From Steve Almond, author of Candyfreak and (Not That You Asked), comes Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life (Random House), a hilarious power ballad about how a love of music changed the author’s life, from his childhood to life as a new dad.

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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.

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