31st March 2010 by
gabe under Uncategorized
Today’s Featured Book Event: Kevin Sampsell (Portland State, Smith Memorial SU, #238, @6:00pm): Kevin Sampsell reads from “A Common Pornography,” a memoir, told in vignettes, that captures the history of one dysfunctional American family. An extension of a 2003 “memory experiment” of the same name, “A Common Pornography” weaves recollections of small-town youth with darker [...]
tagged in book, Events, Kevin Sampsell, Lewis and Clark College, Patricia Briggs, Pete Rock, Peter Nathaniel Malae, Pico Iyer, Portland, Powells Books, University of Portland
Leave Comments →
29th March 2010 by
gabe under Uncategorized
Today’s Featured Book Event: Matthew Dickman and Carl Adamshick (Lewis & Clark College, Smith Hall, @7:00pm): Matthew Dickman’s first collection of poetry, All American Poem (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), received the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Award. In addition, Dickman has received fellowships for his work from the Michener Center for Writers, the Vermont Studio [...]
19th February 2010 by
gabe under Uncategorized
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 20, 2010 through February 26, 2010 are: Saturday February 20- Bringing History to Life (Lewis & Clark College, Miller Center for the [...]
tagged in a childrens place bookstore, April Henry, Ariel Gore, Arthur Bradford, Babymouse, Bag of Books Sale, Biby Gaston, Bill Berkson, Book Clubs, Book Groups, Books, Brenda Peterson, Brian Doyle, broadway books, Carl Wilson, Cedar Mill Community Library, Cindy Hudson, Citizens Read, Doa Strom, Entertainment for the People, Events, Frank Black, Gina Ochsner, Green Bean Books, Heidi Durrow, Hillsboro Main Library, hollywood library, IFCC, In Other Words Women's Books and Resources, Jake Adelstein, Jennifer Richter, Jim Wallis, Joanne Fluke, Joanne Greenberg, Keith Scribner, Kim Stafford, Kristan Kennedy, Lewis and Clark College, Literary, Logernaut Reading Series, looking glass bookstore, Marisa Meltzer, Meg Mullins, Milwaukie Ledding Library, Mother-Daughter Book Club, Northwest Author Series, Open Mic, Oregon Writers Colony, Penelope Scambly Schott, Peter Sears, Portland, portland state, Powells Books, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Reed College, Roger Wendlick, Rosanne Parry, Scot Siegel, spare room reading series, St. John's Booksellers, Stephanie Saldana, Tigard Public Library, Title Wave Used Bookstore, Tokyo Vice, Tom Hayden, Toni Partington, University of Portland, Verse In Person, Victoria Jamieson, Wilsonville Public Library
Leave Comments →
17th February 2010 by
gabe under Uncategorized
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
Leave Comments →
3rd February 2010 by
admin under Uncategorized
Would America’s founding fathers have anything to say about modern fights over intellectual property? According to Lewis Hyde – poet, essayist, cultural critic—they would say plenty. Hyde is in Portland this week to discuss his upcoming book, Common as Air: Revolution, Art and Ownership. Wednesday night he addressed a bursting-at-the-seams crowd of more than three [...]
29th January 2010 by
gabe under Uncategorized
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 30, 2010 through February 5, 2010 are: Saturday January 30- Ink Splash (Writers’ Dojo, @10:00am, $15 suggested donation): Ink Splash is an [...]
tagged in Ariel Gore, blogs, Book Clubs, Central Library, floating world comics, Graham Salisbury, Green Bean Books, Hillsboro Library, Hillsdale Library, In Other Words Women's Books and Resources, Indigo Editing, Ink Splash, Jacob Needleman, Johanna Wright, Kevin Sampsell, Lewis and Clark College, Lewis Hyde, looking glass bookstore, Margaret Erhart, Molly Best Tinsley, Molly Gloss, Moonstruck Chocolate, murder by the book, North Plains Library, oregon literary review, PNCA, portland fiction project, Powells Books, reading frenzy, Robert Goolrick, Sellwood-Moreland Library, Steven Weissman, The Maiden, Tigard Library, West Linn Library, Wilamette Writers, william stafford, Write Around Portland, Writer's Dojo
Leave Comments →
Today’s Featured Book Event: Peter Rock (Tualatin Public Library, @7:00pm): Not too long ago a man and his daughter were found living in Forest Park. Authorities recognized the care the father gave to his daughter and located a safe place for them to live. After just a few days, they disappeared, and no one knows [...]
Portland is full of amazing readers, writers, publishers, and other literary folk. One of our goals at Reading Local Portland is to track down and interview every single one of them…well, okay, not every single one. But we are shooting to publish more interviews with local literati here on RLP. Sara Guest, who kindly gave [...]
1st December 2009 by
gabe under
Authors,
Books,
Events,
Portland
Today’s Featured Book Event: Willamette Writers hosts the Writer’s Faire (The Old Church, @6:30pm): The Writer’s Faire is an opportunity for local authors to promote their work, sell books and “sound off” on upcoming releases and/or events in the writing community. The event will feature table space where authors may sign/sell their books as well [...]
17th November 2009 by
gabe under
Books
Today’s Featured Book Event: Floating World Animation Fest 2009 V.3 (Valentine’s, @9:00pm): Local and lo-fi, international and extrasensory, hand drawn, stop motion, cgi and puppetry, electricity and torches. This will be a brand new mix featuring the best of the past 3 shows, plus… you guessed it: some new shit you haven’t seen before! I’m [...]
tagged in al gore, Authors, book, Book Clubs, Central Library, Events, floating world comics, In Other Words Women's Books and Resources, Lewis and Clark College, marylhurst university, Midland Library, pacific university, Portland, Powells Books, Wilsonville Library
Leave Comments →
Promote your events, new releases, and more. Check out our 
Share links that spotlight Portland's lit community. Check out our 
Connect with other local literary lovers. Check out our