Today’s Featured Book Event:

Tom Bissell (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Combining Tom Bissell’s personal experience as a gamer with interviews of some of the leading game designers at work today, Extra Lives (Pantheon) is an insightful and highly entertaining appraisal of the popular art form of video games.

Other Book Events Today:

Steve Duno (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): Steve Duno’s Last Dog on the Hill (St. Martin’s) tells the true story of a feral, young Rottweiler mix who, after abandoning his pack and the hills of his birth, went on to change the lives of hundreds of people and dogs, including the author’s, with his extraordinary intelligence and heart.

Willamette Writers Meeting w/ April Henry (The Old Church, @7:00pm): April Henry will talk about how to write mysteries during Willamette Writers Portland meeting at the Old Church. April is the author of Hand of Fate and Torched.

Walt Curtis Benefit-Film Screening Mala Noche (Cinema 21, @9:00pm, $10): Remastered 35 mm screening of Gus Van Sant’s film of Walt Curtis’ classic Mala Noche. Walt Curtis, noted poet and painter, lost his home and most of his possessions, paintings and papers in a fire May 2 which destroyed the Great Northwest Bookstore and the old wooden church which housed it. Proceeds from the screening will go to the Walt Curtis Fund at the Wells Fargo Bank. Or you can walk into any Wells Fargo Bank and tell them you’d like to donate to the fund.

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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 Powell’s Books.

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