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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How Portland Book Clubs Will Benefit From the New Reading Local
Previously this week we have taken a look at how the new Reading Local: Portland will benefit Portland authors, publishers, and bookstores. Today’s post will cover how book clubs can utilize features available on the new site. Specifically we will talk about how they can use the site to recruit new members, organize upcoming meetings, [...]
How Portland Bookstores Will Benefit From the New Reading Local
In previous posts we have discussed how Portland authors and publishers will benefit from the new Reading Local: Portland, and in today’s post we’ll take a look at how Portland bookstores can utilize the new site. Specifically we will look at how bookstores can use the site to reach new customers, interact with loyal customers, [...]
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 [...]
Portland Book Events: July 3-July 9
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 July 3, 2010 through July 9, 2010 are: Saturday July 3- Happy 4th of July Weekend! Sunday July 4- Happy 4th of July [...]
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 [...]
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