Julia Holmes’s first novel, Meeks, is just out from Small Beer Press and has been getting plenty of attention. Publishers Weekly calls it “a highly imaginative debut,” and The L.A. Times says, “with humor and heartbreak, Holmes’ novel unfolds like a game in which the deck is irredeemably stacked.” Holmes’s eligible bachelors are mayflies: they [...]
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Event Preview: “Rock Out to Walk Out” with Powell’s Union
While on the picket line during ILWU Local 5’s first contract campaign, a tired Powell’s Books employee started a chant to lift the spirits of his fellow workers: “We like to party, but the fight comes first.” Now, after ten years, ILWU Local 5 (whose membership is comprised of workers at Powell’s Books and Aramark) [...]
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 [...]
Tonight 6-30: Justin Cronin at Powells City of Books
Today’s Featured Book Event: Justin Cronin (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): With The Passage (Ballantine), award-winning author Justin Cronin has written both a relentlessly suspenseful adventure and an epic chronicle of human endurance in the face of unprecedented catastrophe. Its inventive storytelling, masterful prose, and depth of human insight mark it as a crucial and [...]
Tonight 6-28: Show and Tell Open Mic at Three Friends Coffee House
Today’s Featured Book Event: Show and Tell Open Mic (Three Friends Coffee House, @7:00pm): Before we go on Summer Vacation in July and August, this very special edition of Three Friends Monday: Caffeinated Art will be an extended version of the very popular Show and Tell Open Mic – it’s our way of saying “thank [...]
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 [...]
Today 6-20: Kari Chapin presents "The Handmade Marketplace" at Powell's City of Books
Today’s Featured Book Event: The Handmade Marketplace (Powells City of Books, @2:00pm): For crafters who have more confidence running a sewing machine than setting up a website, Kari Chapin’s The Handmade Marketplace (Storey) breaks down and makes sense of the global possibilities for marketing and selling crafts. Other Book Events Today: Friends of Milwaukie Library [...]
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 [...]
Today 6-11: Day One of the Rose City Used Book Fair at the Friendship Masonic Center
Today’s Featured Book Event: Rose City Used Book Fair (Friendship Masonic Center, @2:00pm-8:00pm, $2 or $1 + 1 can of food): An unpretentious book fair featuring 1000’s of books from over 26 different Independent Booksellers. Used books, bargain books, collectible books, prints, ephemera, appraisals, seminars, and door prizes will all be available. Check out the [...]
Tonight 6-9: Steve Wilson presents "The Boys from Little Mexico" at Powell's City of Books
Today’s Featured Book Event: The Boys from Little Mexico (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): In the tradition of Friday Night Lights, Steve Wilson’s The Boys from Little Mexico (Beacon Press) follows the all-Hispanic boys’ soccer team from Woodburn High, who are determined that this will be the season they beat the wealthy suburban schools around [...]
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