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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Loretta Stinson (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): Loretta Stinson reads from her sensitive and insightful first novel, Little Green, just published by Hawthorne Books and Literary Arts. It’s the story of Janie Marek, an orphan who runs away from her stepmother and lands at a strip club, where she gets a job and falls for Paul Jesse, a drug dealer who spirals into addiction and begins physically abusing her. As the violence escalates, Janie finds a job in a bookstore and begins to establish her independence. Like Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, this novel examines the psychology of a woman who experiences violence at the hands of someone she loves and finds the strength to leave. This is a life-affirming story about a woman who finds herself in books, in the promise of education, and in the community of friends who help her find a way out.
Other Book Events Today:
Dr. Michael Munk presents “The Experience and Legacy of McCarthyism in Oregon” (McMenamin’s Edgefield, @6:30pm): Learn more about one of Portland’s most politically contentious eras—when the radicals and the Red Squad battled it out in a city changed dramatically by World War II when a labor force was built almost overnight in Kaiser’s enormous shipping yards. Michael Munk retired after teaching political science for more than twenty-five years, most recently at Rutgers University. He is author of The Portland Red Guide: Sites & Stories of Our Radical Past (Ooligan Press, 2007).
Kathryn Schulz (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): On the heels of the success of The Wisdom of Crowds and Predictably Irrational comes Kathryn Schulz’s Being Wrong (Ecco), a thoughtful and persuasive celebration of human fallibility that examines what it means to be right or wrong — and why it matters so much to us.
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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 Hawthorne Books.
