Tonight 6-2: Matt Love, Cheryl Strayed, and Bryan Free at Blackbird Wineshop

Today’s Featured Book Event:

Oregon Literary Review presents First Wednesdays (Blackbird Wineshop, @7:00pm): Oregon Literary Review co-hosts First Wednesdays, a series of readings, performances and wine-tasting. This show is 21 and over. The readers for June 2 are Matt Love, Cheryl Strayed, and Bryan Free of Bryan Free and the Doxyhaunt.

Other Book Events Today:

Evelyn Searle Hess (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): Evelyn Searle Hess will be here to read from her new book, To the Woods: Sinking Roots, Living Lightly, and Finding True Home, recently published by OSU Press. In her late fifties, Evelyn Searle Hess walked away from the world of modern conveniences to build a new life with her husband on twenty acres of wild land in the foothills of Oregon’s Coast Range. This book describes her day-to-day challenges, from living in a trailer without electricity or indoor plumbing to excavating a pond to dealing with health crises. It tracks the natural history of place through the seasons, drawing on her extensive knowledge of local flora and fauna. It explores the joys of living simply, building a relationship with the natural world, and awakening to the interconnectedness of all life. Ms. Hess managed the University of Oregon’s greenhouses for ten years. She also taught native plant gardening classes, established and operated a plant nursery, and served as a gardening consultant. Since 1992, she and her husband David have been camping on their property outside of Eugene.

Yoram Bauman (St. John’s Books, @7:00pm): Join us for an evening of hilarity, and learn more than you ever thought you could about economics!  The man who translated Mankiw’s 10 Principles of Economics into plain English visits St. Johns Books to present his new collaboration with artist Grady Klein: The Cartoon Introduction to Economics, volume 1.  Taking the ‘dismal’ out of the dismal science, Bauman uses humor to explain why insurance costs so darn much, how trade can make everyone worse off, and why it’s ‘efficient,’ in economist-speak, for one person to wind up with all the money!

CFI/Freethinkers Book Club (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): This month’s nonfiction book group meets to discuss the first half of Primates and Philosophers by Frans de Waal.

Curious Gorge (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Scott Cook’s Curious Gorge is a hiking guide to the Columbia River Gorge, but with a twist. The author also includes places the typical hiking guide leaves out — the drive-to viewpoints, trail-less excursions to hidden waterfalls, places to watch salmon spawn, and gorge oddities such as the Trout Lake Ice Cave.

Dick Weissman (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): Unprecedented in its approach, Dick Weissman’s Talkin’ ‘Bout a Revolution (Backbeat Books) is a comprehensive guide to the relationship between American music and politics, offering a multidisciplinary discussion that illuminates how social events impact music as well as how music impacts social events.

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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 Mt. Adams Center.