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 [...]
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Portland Book Events: June 26-July 2
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 June 26, 2010 through July 2, 2010 are: Saturday June 26th- Voices in Verse (Cedar Mill Community Library, @10:00am): Bring along a cup [...]
Tonight 6-22: Rob Schlegel at Broadway Books
Today’s Featured Book Event: Rob Schlegel (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): Poet Rob Schlegel is an adjunct professor at the University of Montana. His collection of poetry, The Lesser Fields, is the winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry, and he’ll be with us tonight to read from it. Published in 2009 by the University Press of [...]
Portland Book Events: June 19-25
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 June 19, 2010 through June 25, 2010 are: Saturday June 19- Friends of Milwaukie Library Book Sale (Waldorf School Gymnasium, 9am-4pm): Thousands of [...]
Tonight 6-8: Mini Sledgehammer Writing Contest at Blackbird Wineshop
Today’s Featured Book Event: Mini Sledgehammer Writing Contest (Blackbird Wineshop, @7:00pm, 21+): Join Indigo Editing for their monthly Mini Sledgehammer Writing Contest, graciously hosted by Blackbird Wine Shop, every second Tuesday at 7 p.m. The contest is free to enter. Each event includes 36 minutes of writing guided by four writing prompts. Stories will be [...]
Tonight 6-2: Matt Love, Cheryl Strayed, and Bryan Free at Blackbird Wineshop
Today’s Featured Book Event: Oregon Literary Review presents First Wednesdays (Blackbird Wineshop, @7:00pm): Oregon Literary Review co-hosts First Wednesdays, a series of readings, performances and wine-tasting. This show is 21 and over. The readers for June 2 are Matt Love, Cheryl Strayed, and Bryan Free of Bryan Free and the Doxyhaunt. Other Book Events Today: [...]
Tonight 6-1: Deborah Reed at Broadway Books
Today’s Featured Book Event: Deborah Reed (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): Portland writer Deborah Reed will be here to read from her novel A Small Fortune, which she wrote under the pen name of Audrey Braun. This new book is a steamy thriller that begins in tropical Mexico, where Celia Donnelly goes for a restorative vacation to [...]
Portland Book Events: May 31-June 4
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 May 31, 2010 through June 4, 2010 are: Monday May 31- Memorial Day-Thank you to all who have served! Tuesday June 1- Deborah [...]
Portland Book Blog – Roundup
Happy Monday Everyone! While I can’t say I am the biggest fan of this day in the week, I certainly enjoy reviewing articles from the previous week to see what I might have missed. Unfortunately, it is always more than I might wish. But that’s the beauty of the internet, besides LOLcat speak of course. [...]
Tonight 5-18: Gina Ochsner at Broadway Books
Today’s Featured Book Event: Gina Ochsner (Broadway Books, @7:00pm): Award-winning short story writer Gina Ochsner will be here to read from her first novel, The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight. This story, set in a crumbling apartment building in post-Soviet Russia, is about a ghost who won’t keep quiet. This is a crazy, magical, [...]
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