We’ve spent this past week discussing how Portland authors, publishers, bookstores and book clubs will benefit from the new Reading Local, but now we’d like to take a few moments to tell you, the readers, the folks that make up the heart of this community, and the crew that keeps it beating, what you can [...]
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Tonight 7-9: Diary Comics at Reading Frenzy
Today’s Featured Book Event: Diary Comics (Reading Frenzy, @7:00pm): Join us for the kick off of Jesse Reklaw’s book tour celebrating the release of Ten Thousand Things To Do with a multimedia diary comic extravaganza featuring Melinda Tracy Boyce, Clutch, Virginia Paine and of course, Jesse Reklaw! This event is free and so is the [...]
Tonight 7-8: "Der Struwwelpeter" Book Release Party at Container Corps
Today’s Featured Book Event: Der Struwwelpeter Book Release Party (Container Corps, @6:00pm): Container Corps is proud to announce the release of a new edition of Der Struwwelpeter, illustrated by Alisha Wessler. Der Struwwelpeter is a gothic book of children’s morality verses written by eccentric German psychiatrist Heinrich Hoffman in 1845. The book is notable for [...]
Tonight 7-7: Poetry Jam & Open Mic at Star e Rose Cafe
Today’s Featured Book Event: Poetry Reading & Open Mic (Star e Rose Cafe, @6:00pm): Come on down to the star e rose and bring those words you have hidden in the back of your closet, your journal you write in while sipping Chamomile. bring your heartfelt love poetry, searing social commentary, uproarious comic routines, and [...]
Tonight 7-6: Tom Bissell at Powells City of Books
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 [...]
Tonight 7-2: Emily Kendal Frey, Bryan Coffelt, Evelyn Hampton, and Kevin Sampsell at Ampersand
Today’s Featured Book Event: Emily Kendal Frey, Bryan Coffelt, Evelyn Hampton, and Kevin Sampsell (Ampersand, @7:30pm): Kevin Sampsell plays host to this evening of poetry. Seattle poet Evelyn Hampton will read from her book of poems We Were Eternal and Gigantic, along with Emily Kendal Frey, whose latest collection, The New Planet, has been described [...]
Tonight 7-1: Literary Extravaganza & Moore-Walt Curtis Benefit at Berbati’s Pan
Today’s Featured Book Event: Literary Extravaganza & Moore-Walt Curtis Benefit (Berbati’s Pan, @8:00pm, $10, All Ages): A proclamation released by Portland Mayor Sam Adams states, “civic-minded friends are uniting to stage benefit performances, film screenings, and an auction of fine-art and literature to launch the Curtis Legacy Initiative to reestablish his personal studio and residence, [...]
Tonight 6-30: Justin Cronin at Powells City of Books
Today’s Featured Book Event: Justin Cronin (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): With The Passage (Ballantine), award-winning author Justin Cronin has written both a relentlessly suspenseful adventure and an epic chronicle of human endurance in the face of unprecedented catastrophe. Its inventive storytelling, masterful prose, and depth of human insight mark it as a crucial and [...]
Tonight 6-29: Loretta Stinson at Broadway Books
Today’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 [...]
Tonight 6-28: Show and Tell Open Mic at Three Friends Coffee House
Today’s Featured Book Event: Show and Tell Open Mic (Three Friends Coffee House, @7:00pm): Before we go on Summer Vacation in July and August, this very special edition of Three Friends Monday: Caffeinated Art will be an extended version of the very popular Show and Tell Open Mic – it’s our way of saying “thank [...]
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