Today’s Featured Book Event:

Farel Dalrymple (Floating World Comics, @6:00pm): We are proud to present the work of Farel Dalrymple, creator of the award winning Pop Gun War series and artist of Omega The Unknown by Jonathan Lethem.  The original Pop Gun War series was collected and published by Dark Horse Comics in 2003.  In the past two years, Farel has been self publishing the sequel, Pop Gun War: Chain Letter as limited edition books with silkscreen and letterpress covers.  We will have the brand new second issue and a new printing of the sold out first issue.

Other Book Events Today:

Poetic Excursions (Director Park-Art Canopy, @6:00pm): This summer, the Literary Arts program of the Multnomah Arts Center will inaugurate Writing Places, a series of one-day writing “excursions” in changing locations, led by local writers. The Poetic Excursions reading highlights some of the teaching artists of Multnomah Arts Center’s literary arts program. Kaia Sand, Allison Cobb, Joseph Bradshaw, and David Abel will read from their work, and briefly discuss the excursions that they will lead in this summer’s series. They will be joined by special guests Lawson Inada and Chris Daniels.

Lori D. (Reading Frenzy, @6:00pm): This show is a serious in-depth investigation in rural luxury living. Lori D. has created hand-painted portraits of your country kin in their finest form and natural habitat. Lori D. uses her hands to make paintings, animations, zines, films, quilts, gardens, miniature sweaters, and pies. She collected a BA in film/video from UCSD and an MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts. Lori D. currently works as a freelance illustrator & animator in addition to directing the Animation Department at the California State Summer School for the Arts. Show runs through June. Free beer from Ninkasi.

Richard Russo (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): Following Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Russo’s national bestseller Bridge of Sighs, That Old Cape Magic (Vintage) presents the story of a marriage and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth.

Robert Moss (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): In Dreamgates (New World Library), Robert Moss, a world-renowned authority on the history, uses, and power of dreaming, guides neophyte and experienced adventurers alike to open their own “dreamgates” to otherwise inaccessible realms of reality as well as to soul remembering.

Live Wire Radio (Aladdin Theater, @7:30pm, $15): Guest Include: Michael Curry – Internationally recognized master of puppetry and kinetic theatrical design. He has created iconic and moving performance experiences for Walt Disney, Cirque Du Soleil, The Olympics and others; Richard Russo – Pulitzer Prize winning novelist for his book Empire Falls. Author of several other books including Mohawk, The Risk Pool, Bridge of Sighs, Nobody’s Fool (for which a movie was made with Paul Newman) and others; Too Much Coffee Man Opera – Shannon Wheeler created this satirical comic strip which then was adapted into what was called “the world’s first comic-book-to-opera adaptation.”  Shannon describes this as “more than an opera but less than a hernia operation.”  You be the judge; Plate and Pitchfork – turns farms into dining rooms and classrooms for nearly a dozen nights a year. This dinner series creators pair award-winning chefs with farmers and ranchers to serve up a locavore’s paradise. The organizers will be joined by James Beard award winner Chef Vitaly Paley and will discuss the benefits of knowing where your food comes from. Musical guests: John Roderick – frontman for Seattle’s The Long Winters; and Dirty Mittens – Indie pop complete with horns section.

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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 Farel Dalrymple.

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