Today’s Featured Book Event:
Smallpressapalooza (Powells City of Books, @5:00pm): Powell’s hosts the third annual Smallpressapalooza, a five-hour marathon of readings from some of the best small-press writers of the Northwest and beyond. This year’s line-up includes Alex Wrekk (Brainscan zine), Shawn Granton (editor of The Zinester’s Guide to Portland), Matthew Stadler (Publication Studio), Jeff Burk (Shatnerquake), and many others. Check the Powell’s Calendar for a full schedule of readers.
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CAFFEINATED ART # 86 (Three Friends Coffee House, @7:00pm): Erotica author Elva Maxine Beach and local poets Celestial Concubine and Dan Raphael will read from their work. Check out Reading Local’s interview with Ms. Beach here.
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It’s Raining Cupcakes (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @2:00pm): Lisa Schroeder, the popular author of I Heart You, You Haunt Me, delivers a sweet treat for tweens in It’s Raining Cupcakes (Aladdin), a novel that’s baked to perfection.
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NW Author Series: Write What People Remember (Wilsonville Public Library, @3:30pm, $5): Naseem Rakha presents “Writing What Works: How to Learn from What You Read and How to Write What People Remember.” Naseem Rakha is an award-winning journalist whose stories have been heard on OPB, and NPR. Her first novel, The Crying Tree, has been selected for the Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers Series and is currently a nominee for the 2010 PNBA Book Award.
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Tangent presents: Jake Buffy, Brandon Downing, & Reg Johanson (Clinton Corner Cafe, @7:00pm): Tangent is pleased to host three exciting poets: Portland native Jake Buffy will be making his full-length reading debut; New York-based artist Brandon Downing will be screening some new film shorts; and Reg Johanson will be joining us all the way from Vancouver, BC to perform his new poetry.
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Gala Celebration Honoring Local Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (Barnes & Noble-Clackamas, @3:00pm): Come celebrate the talents of the SCBWI-Oregon. Sixteen authors and illustrators of children’s and teen’s books will be here to present and sign their books, including Emily Whitman, Carmen Bernier-Grand, Lisa Schroeder, Dale Basye and Nancy Coffelt.
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Dave Eggers Booksigning (Powells City of Books, @12:00pm): Join us when bestselling author Dave Eggers signs copies of his most recent books, The Wild Things and Zeitoun (McSweeney’s). A riveting work of nonfiction, Zeitoun explores the life of a prosperous Syrian-American who chose to stay in New Orleans through Hurricane Katrina — and then abruptly disappeared. Loosely based on the picture book by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay co-written with Spike Jonze, The Wild Things is about the confusions of a boy, Max, making his way in a world he can’t control. Please note: This is a booksigning only; the author will not read from his work.
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First Friday: Art and Letters (Downtown Camas, WA, @5:00pm): Local authors will sign, sell, and read from their books in shops and locations throughout downtown Camas. A collection of signed books donated by the authors will be raffled to benefit the nonprofit Friends of the Camas Library. Authors and local students will read from their works in the new Journey Community Church located on 4th Ave in downtown Camas.
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Jennie Shortridge and Erica Bauermeister (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): Jennie Shortridge and Erica Bauermeister will read from their new novels. Jennie’s novel is When She Flew (New American Library), the story of a girl and her father found living off the grid in Forest Park. Inspired by real events that many of us remember, this novel is a warm-hearted story that imagines what happens when an injured war veteran and his 12-year-old naturalist daughter are 
brought back to “civilized” life after being on their own. Erica’s novel is The School of Essential Ingredients (Berkley), a tale of a cooking teacher and her students that navigates readers through each character’s personal dramas, memories and musings as they handle, slice, chop, blend, smell and taste. It is a remarkable debut novel that creates a captivating culinary world where the pleasures of sophisticated food come to mean much more than simple epicurean indulgence.
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First Thursday Book Club (St. John’s Books, @5:30pm): Join us for the inaugural meeting of our First Thursday Book Club. Get in on the ground floor of a book club in the making! Our first selection is Jane Austen’s immortal, inimitable Pride & Prejudice. We invite you to read (or reread) this classic tale of money and marriage in Regency England–then sit down with us to discuss it over tea and cookies.. Future discussion books will be selected at this meeting.
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David Oliver Relin (Mercy Corps Action Center, @7:30pm): Relin will talk about the writing of Three Cups of Tea, as well as See How They Shine, his soon-to-be published book about blindness in developing countries. The author will sign audience members’ copies of Three Cups of Tea after his presentation.
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Oregon Literary Review’s First Thursday Reading Series (Blackbird Wineshop, @7:00): Oregon Literary Review co-hosts First Wednesdays, a series of readings, performances and wine-tasting. Readers for March 3 are Mark Thalman, John Blackard, Penelope Scambly Schott, and Pedro Ponce. This show is 21 and over.
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Schoenfeldt Writers Series presents Paul Theroux (University of Portland, Buckley Center Auditorium, @7:00pm): Paul Theroux, one of the world’s finest travel writers, is also a prolific novelist whose works have been made into several films. Among his best-known works of travel are The Great Railway Bazaar,Sailing Through China, and The Pillars of Hercules; among his notable novels are The Mosquito Coast, Half Moon Street, and Picture Palace, which won the UK’s Whitbread Prize. “A large, lively, outrageous talent, without peer as the merciless obituarist of colonialism,” says Nobel Prizewinner Nadine Gordimer.
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Steven Johnson: The Ghost Map and The Future of Cities (Portland State, Smith Memorial Center Ballroom, @11:00am): Author Steven Johnson will talk about how The Ghost Map’s 19th-century cholera epidemic can help us understand the future of our cities: the power of neighborhoods to solve problems, new forms of digital mapping and information sharing, and the challenges facing mega-cities in the developing world.
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
1,000 Words Reading Series (The Maiden, @7:00pm): 1,000 Words returns with a terrific slate of readers and our beloved former house band to tackle four prompts on the theme RESOLVE. Four writers each wrote four 250 word snippets of literary genius, including phrases and words provided by the series curator; they’ll perform alongside a duo headed by Reid Trevarthen, half of the We Play Quiet Brain Trust, offering musical renditions of the prompts. Free, fanciful, not to be missed. Reading: Nick Carter (New kid on the block, but we expect great things!); Joe Pitkin (for the FOURTH time now, Joe? Well, we never get enough of you…); Jacob Aiello (Also a 1K Words frequent flyer–more impressive than ever); and featuring Ethan Camp (he’s been penning emo-punk songs to the prompts for more than a year in the band–now, he’ll take the mike spoken-style).
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Adult Book Club (West Linn Library, @6:45pm): Join the adult book club to discuss The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers. The Adult Book Club focuses on contemporary literary fiction, although non-fiction and classic works are read as well. All titles are selected by the members of the Book Club.
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Writers Resource Fair (Central Library, @12:00pm): Writers and potential writers are invited to meet representatives of organizations offering support and opportunities for writers. Attend the Small Press Book Sale. Visit the Sterling Room for Writers. Tour the John Wilson Special Collections. Light refreshments provided. Visit the Resource Fair website for further details.
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Erotic Poetry Jam and Potluck Fundraiser for Haiti Relief (Q Center, South Room, @4:00pm): Bring a dish of your choice and erotic poetry to share with others. If you don’t have any poetry, come anyway to give support and have fun. We will be requesting a $5 to $10 donation at the door. Larger donations are also welcome. All proceeds will be donated to The American Red Cross Haiti Relief and Development Fund.
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8th Annual Teen Art Show (Beaverton City Library, @10:00am): The Beaverton City Library Once again invites area teens to display their artistic visions at our 8th Annual Teen Art Show! The show will open with refreshments on Saturday, February 27 at 10:00 a.m. and run until Sunday, March 7. During the week, the show will be open from 3:00 p.m. until the library closes, from 10:00 a.m. until close on Saturday, and from 1:00 p.m. until close on Sundays. Come by to enjoy art from our community’s youth!
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Meg Mullins (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): Meg Mullins reads from her second novel, Dear Strangers (Viking). This book is the story of siblings Oliver and Mary, whose world is forever changed by a series of childhood tragedies: the deaths of a neighbor and their father, and the resulting abandonment by their mother of a child who was to have been adopted into the family. As adults, Oliver searches for his almost-brother and Mary copes with loss through denial. This is a luminous, moving portrait of grief, atonement, romance, and longing. It unearths the possibilities of hope and renewal in the unexpected bonds forged with family and strangers alike.
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Owl Book Group (Cedar Mill Community Library, @1:00pm): You are invited to join the Owl Book Group! Newcomers always welcome. Please join us for a great book discussion in the Lewis Community Room upstairs at the Cedar Mill Community Library. February’s selection is Ten Cents a Dance by Christine Fletcher.
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Entertainment for the People (The Woods, @8:00pm, $10/12 online/$14 at the door): A night of really fun stuff, music included! Cold Beer and Naughty Wine will be served! Featuring: ARTHUR BRADFORD, presenting video and stories from his time as writer, producer and director of MTV’s How’s Your News; NATHANIEL BOGGESS, from the band Jetfighter, currently selling out his one-man show This is Not a Date, telling true and revealing stories; FOUREVER YOUNG, aka Ritchie Young from Loch Lomond and his three younger brothers playing pop-tacular tunes; Destination DIY’s JULIE SABATIER and SCRAP digging dirt with a live DIY demo; EASTLAND ACADEMY (Shelley McLendon & Frayn Masters), a funny, smart sketch comedy duo. For more check out RLP’s interview with Arthur and Nathaniel.
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Film Screening: Every War Has Two Losers (Lewis & Clark College, South Campus Conference Center, @12:00pm): Based on the book Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War, edited by Kim Stafford (Milkweed Editions, 2003), this 30-minute documentary film features readings by Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kinston, Naomi Shihab Nye, Coleman Barkes, Michael Meade, W.S. Merwin, and others. Produced and directed by Haydn Reiss (associate producer, Kim Stafford), the film examines the history of violence through war, and alternatives to war through language, personal witness, and cultural engagement. Narrated by Peter Coyote and Linda Hunt, the film closes with the William Stafford poem “At the Un-national Monument,” set to music by John Gorka. Section of documentary were filmed on the Lewis & Clark campus. To view the trailer, visit: everywar.com.
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