27th June 2010 by
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Today’s Featured Book Event: Opening Reception: John Adams Unbound (Central Library, @1:00pm): Besides being our nation’s second president, John Adams was known as an independent thinker and a brilliant mind. This traveling exhibit provides the remarkable opportunity to explore the book collection that fed his intellect. Adam’s amassed one of the greatest private libraries in [...]
4th May 2010 by
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Today’s Featured Book Event: Writers Talking: Leslie What and Craig Lesley (Central Library, @6:30pm): Leslie What is a Nebula-Award winning writer, graduate of Pacific University’s MFA in Writing, and author of the story collection Crazy Love. Recent work has appeared in Utne Reader and Serving House. Craig Lesley is the author of four novels, numerous [...]
17th April 2010 by
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Today’s Featured Book Event: Louis Sachar (Central Library, @1:00pm): The sequel to Holes, Louis Sachar’s National Book Award and Newbery Medal winning novel, is coming to the Oregon Children’s Theatre! Small Steps is the continuing story of life after Camp Green Lake. Upon his release from the camp, Armpit decides to improve his life — [...]
1st April 2010 by
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Today’s Featured Book Event: Jay Lake (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): Rejoin the adventure in bestselling author Jay Lake’s Clockwork Earth with Pinion (Tor), “a fine tale of humans in search of liberation from the clockwork and customs that ensnare them and us as well” (Sci-Fi Weekly). Other Book Events Today: Perspectives on [...]
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26th March 2010 by
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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 March 27, 2010 through April 2, 2010 are: Saturday March 27- Voices in Verse (Cedar Mill Community Library, @10:00am): Bring along a cup [...]
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28th February 2010 by
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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 [...]
26th February 2010 by
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Over 30 organizations offering “support and opportunities for writers,” will be present this Sunday (2-28) at the Writers Resource Fair held downtown at the Central Library. The fair is a wonderful opportunity to network with literary minded individuals, and celebrate the regions “lively literary scene.” The incredible lineup of particpating organizations includes: All Publications* The [...]
17th February 2010 by
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Today’s Featured Book Event: Ralph Ellison Book Release and Reading (Lewis & Clark College, Agnes Flanagan Chapel, @7:30pm): At his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind roughly two thousand pages of his unfinished second novel, which he had spent nearly four decades writing. Long awaited, it was to have been the work Ellison intended [...]
tagged in 100th Monkey Studio, Anne Jennings Paris, Barbara Drake, Bill Siverly, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Books, Central Library, Daniel Skatch-Mills, Death Magazine, Events, Lewis and Clark College, Literary, Mountain Writers, Portland, Ralph Ellison, reading frenzy, The Press Club
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12th February 2010 by
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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 February 13, 2010 through February 19, 2010 are: Saturday February 13- Sweethearts Bazaar (Cosmic Monkey Comics, @12:00pm): Come down and check out creative [...]
tagged in 100th Monkey Studio, a childrens place bookstore, Allison Cobb, And&Review, Anne Jennings Paris, Annie Blooms Books, Barbara Drake, Barry Sanders, Bill Siverly, Binford Reading Series, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Book Clubs, Book Groups, Bradley Rosen, Central Library, cheryl strayed, Cosmic Monkey Comics, Dana Stabenow, Daniel Skatch-Mills, Darlene Pagan, Death Magazine, Debra Spark, Diane Jacobs, Edith M. Hemingway, Emily Chenoweth, floating world comics, Fran Cannon Slayton, Heidi Durrow, Hillary Manton Lodge, In Other Words Women's Books and Resources, Joel Kotkin, jon raymond, Kaia Sand, Karen Finneyrock, Kim Stafford, Lewis & Clark College, Live Wire Radio, looking glass bookstore, margaret malone, marylhurst university, Milagro Theatre, Monica Drake, Mountain Writers, pacific university, Paper Tiger Coffee House, Paul Collins, Paul Flores, Portland Poetry Slam, portland state, Powells Books, Ralph Ellison, reading frenzy, Rosanne Parry, Stumptown Underground, Suzanne Young, Sweethearts Bazaar, the blue monk, The Naughty List, The Press Club, Tiga Bar, Tom Spanbauer, VoiceCatcher, Writer's Dojo, Yvette Nahmia-Messinas
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2nd February 2010 by
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Today’s Featured Book Event: Kevin Sampsell (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): From writer and Future Tense publisher Kevin Sampsell comes A Common Pornography (Harper Perennial), a searing memoir, told in vignettes, that captures the history of an American family. Intertwining recollections of small-town youth with darker threads of family history, Sampsell reveals how incest, madness, [...]
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