Every Saturday we will bring you links to articles from around the web featuring members of Portland’s lit community. Please feel free to pass along any you come across as well, by emailing us at portland@readinglocal.com, and we will include them in next week’s edition of Short Stories.
Underland Press is profiled as part of the B&N Review Small Press Spotlight series:
Since its inception in 2008, Underland Press has illustrated—by the small run of superior books it has so far published—the value of having a strong and individual creative vision guiding an enterprise, in place of a diffuse and lowest-common-denominator corporate consensus.
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From what we could find (please contact us if you have an event you would like us to add to this or future schedules), the local book events for the week of January 23, 2010 through January 29, 2010 are:
Saturday January 23-
Voices In Verse (Cedar Mill Community Library, @10:00am-11:00am): Bring along a cup of coffee and share your own poetry or listen to others read their favorites. The group meets on the fourth Saturday morning of each month in the library’s upstairs meeting room.
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Mountain Writers presents Jim Kopp (The Press Club, @7:30pm): Jim Kopp is Director of the Aubrey R. Watzek Library at Lewis & Clark College in Portland. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from George Washington University and other graduate degrees in history and library science. His undergraduate degree in history and English is from the University of Oregon. His book, Eden Within Eden: Oregon’s Utopian Heritage (OSU Press, 2009) surveys nearly three hundred communal groups attempted or planned in Oregon over the past 150 years. He has written and presented on several aspects of utopian studies in both its literary and communal manifestations. His extensive private collection on the works by and about Edward Bellamy and of American utopian literature is described in a book published last fall by Berberis Press at Lewis & Clark. He lives with his wife, Sue, appropriately in Aurora, Oregon, which was the earliest communal settlement in the Pacific Northwest. In addition to his varied scholarly pursuits, Jim is completing a children’s book on Aurora Keil the daughter of the founder of the Aurora Colony and for whom the colony was named who died of smallpox in 1862 at the age of thirteen.
Other Book Events Today:
Free Puppet Show (Green Bean Books, @4:00pm): Come see a free puppet show based on the book The Mitten and performed by the talented Yvonne De Maat of Heart in Hand Preschool. The show is appropriate for kids ages 3-7 years old and will be limited to the first 15 who arrive.
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
John Perkins (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): In Hoodwinked (Broadway Books), former economic hitman John Perkins pulls back the curtains on the double-cross of the American people by the CEOs running the “corporatocracy” and the politicians they manipulate.
Other Book Events Today:
Cheeky Pages Romance Book Group (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): This month’s romance group meets to discuss Ravenous: The Dark Forgotten by Sharon Ashwood. Join us!
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From what we could find (please contact us if you have an event you would like us to add to this or future schedules), the local book events for the week of January 16, 2010 through January 22, 2010 are:
Saturday January 16-
Mother Daughter Book Club (Hillsboro Main Library, @10:00am): A book discussion group for girls in grades 3-5 and their mothers or other significant women in their lives to read and discuss great books together. The group meets the third Saturday each month at 10 a.m. at the Main Library. New members are always welcome and no registration is required!
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Elizabeth Eslami (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): Bone Worship (Pegasus) is Elizabeth Eslami’s rich and soul-searching debut novel about an Iranian-American girl whose enigmatic father has decided to arrange her marriage. “The novel is full of wonderfully drawn characters,” praises Library Journal.
Other Book Events Today:
3rd Anniversary Open Mic Potluck and Book Launch (Cover to Cover Books, @6:30pm): Join us as we celebrate three years of open mic poetry at Cover to Cover Books with a special reading and potluck, as well as music by violinist Alisha Judge. Please bring a dish and some poems to share. With our featured reader, Toni Partington: Toni Partington is a poet, editor, collage artist, life/career coach, and grant writer. Her new book, Wind Wing, a collection of poems dedicated to the women who transformed her life, will be available for $10. The author of a poetry chapbook, Jesus Is A Gas (2009). Toni serves as an associate editor for VoiceCatcher, an annual Pacific Northwest anthology of women writers. Toni is a regular columnist for Writing The Life Poetic, an online Zine that complements the print version of the book by Sage Cohen.
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Joe Sacco (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): From acclaimed cartoonist-reporter Joe Sacco comes a sweeping, original investigation of a forgotten crime in the most tormented of places. Spanning 50 years and moving fluidly between one war and the next, Footnotes in Gaza (Metropolitan Books) captures the essence of a tragedy.
Other Book Events Today:
Science Fiction Book Group (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): This month we meet to discuss The Court of the Air by Stephen Hunt.
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From what I could find (please contact me if you have an event you would like me to add to this or future schedules), the local book events for the week of January 9, 2010 through January 15, 2010 are:
Saturday January 9-
William Stafford Celebratory Reading (Tigard Public Library, @2:00pm): Join us for an afternoon of stories about William Stafford and readings of his poems, as well as the works of four local poets. Bring your own favorite Stafford poem to read, your memories of Stafford or ways he influenced you and your work, as well as a poem of your own to read. The featured readers are: Co-hosts Bill Siverly and Michael McDowell, Robert Davies, Melanie Green, Donna Henderson, and David Oates.
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As the Multnomah County Library system continues it’s switch over to an RFID tracking system, the Title Wave Used Bookstore continues to receive truckloads of books the library has decided to move out of its system. To help clear out some of this new inventory Title Wave has been running a different sale each day in January.
For instance today (1-7) is “50% off all items in the Dewey categories 000-299,” which consist of Computer Science, information, general works, philosophy, psychology, religion and spirituality. Tomorrow’s (1-8) sale is “buy any two used items, get one of equal or lesser value for free.” Each day brings something new, except for Sunday’s when the bookstore is closed and January 18th when they are closed in remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr.s birthday.
I was just in the store yesterday and it is packed to the hilt, with several employees in the back going through the crates of books that continue to come in. So if you are in the market for great books at a cheap price, and really who isn’t, than now would be a good time to head on over to Title Wave.
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After all of the points were tallied and then re-tallied, Cara Holman came out on top and is the winner of the December edition of Reading Local’s Monthly Contest! Thanks to her activity on Reading Local’s Facebook page, a new wrinkle that started with December’s contest, as well as her comments left on the blog Cara was able to pull ahead of the pack. Cara has decided to take the $25 gift certificate provided by Annie Bloom’s, and the $10 gift certificate provided by Second Glance Books, as the just reward for her victory. Cara also has decided to become Reading Local’s newest contributor, a development we are very excited about! We will have a full announcement on that shortly.
The other randomly drawn winners of the remaining gift certificates are:
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Tomorrow’s Featured Book Event:
Classics Book Group (Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): This month we meet to discuss Rabbit at Rest by John Updike. Join us! -Update- Due to #snowpocalypse09 Powell’s stores “may be open irregular hours.” Please check the Powell’s events calendar, or call ahead to see if tomorrows Classic Book Group meetup has been canceled.
Other Book Events Tomorrow:
Indy Comic Book Week: The week long celebration of indy comic book creators begins! See Reading Local’s preview for participating Portland area comic book shops.
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-UPDATE- This event has been postponed due to the snow. Will keep you posted when rescheduled time is announced.
Tomorrow’s Featured Book Event:
OWC Calendar Day (Broadway Books, Looking Glass Bookstore, Murder by the Book): With the help of Portland independent book stores Broadway Books, Looking Glass Bookstore and Murder-By-The Book, Oregon Writers Colony is declaring December 29th Calendar Day. You are invited to visit one of the three stores, enjoy some refreshments, get included in a raffle for special signed collector’s copies of the 2010 Colonyhouse Calendar and browse for books, in case you didn’t get the volume you were hoping for at Christmas.
OWC hostess and host at Broadway Books will be Rae Richen and Bob Zimmer. Broadway Books is located at 1714 Northeast Broadway, Portland, OR 97232 (503) 284-1726. Hours of the Calendar Celebration are 5:00-7:00pm.
OWC hostesses at Looking Glass Book Store are Jan Paeth and Marlene Howard. Looking Glass Bookstore is located in the Sellwood district of SE Portland at 7983 SE 13th Avenue (between SE Nehalem & SE Miller St., next to Grand Central Bakery.) Hours of the Calendar Celebration are 4:00-6:00pm.
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