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Featured Events: 7-14 Attic Atheneum Reading & Loretta Stinson at Powell's

(Springbox Gallery, 7:30pm) This evening the brand new Master Writing Program, the Attic Atheneum, will host its first ever Reading & Reception. I thought this program was a great idea for Portland’s writing scene as soon as I saw it and to see it come to such a climactic beginning is really a joy to [...]

Tonight 5-11: Isabel Allende at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Featured Event:  Isabel Allende (Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, @7:30pm, $25-$45):Literary Arts and Powell’s Books are pleased to welcome Isabel Allende to the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall to speak about her most recent novel,Island beneath the Sea (Harper), which chronicles the life of an unforgettable woman — a slave and concubine — from the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue [...]

Portland Book Blog – Roundup

Gack! It’s been two weeks since I put one of these up. Guess all this sun is melting my brain. But I’m okay with that. Anyroad, I’m back with another set of links that I found interesting over the last week. Grrlbibliophile’s Blog The Life of a Reading Coward – A confession from a reader [...]

Portland Book Blogs – Roundup

Howdy Book Folk! I know, I know. This post is a little late and I missed a week, but I am sure you all managed to find the best posts across the Portland Book blog verse just fine, but I’m back to make it easy for you to find a few of the fun pieces [...]

Portland Book Blog Roundup

Welcome to another short roundup of a few of the links I found intriguing from the last week. I need to spend a little more time reading this week to give you a more comprehensive list, but I hope you enjoy the links here.  Tin House Books Blog Barry Hannah, 1942-2010 -A wonderful interview between [...]

Portland Book Blog – Roundup

Hi Book Folk! So unfortunately, this is going to be a Short Edition of the weekly roundup. I won’t make excuses, but I will say I will need a month of detox and some good calm reading to recover from a ridiculous weekend. Just too much. I look forward to the tasty words of Cormac [...]

And The Golden Galoshes go to…

Powell’s has released the winners of their Puddly Awards contest. Readers from all over got a chance to vote on the best book of the last decade. The list is long and in many cases overlaps with the Powell’s employee’s list. The top ten in each list have been given special discounts for new copies, [...]

Portland Book Blogs – Roundup

Well Good Day Portland Book Folk! Here we are again on Monday with another round of Links that I and others of the RL crew find interesting. Portland Fiction Project Sin Sanai: Part Two -Tonight the Portland Fiction Project performs at the Maiden. 7pm. Are you checking our their site every day for the new [...]

Portland Book Events: December 14-20

From what I could find (please contact me if you have an event you would like me to add to this or future schedules), the local book events for the week of December 14, 2009 through December 20, 2009 are: Monday December 14- Greg Mortenson – Stones Into Schools (Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, @7:00pm, SOLD [...]

Tonight 11-10: To Pay My Way With Stories: A Documentary about Write Around Portland Premiers at NW Film Center

Today’s Featured Book Event: To Pay My Way With Stories: A Documentary about Write Around Portland (NW Film Center, Whitsell Auditorium, @7:30pm, $8): Write Around Portland is a Portland-based non-profit that reaches out to under-served populations and provides them with the opportunity to enroll in a free, rigorous, identity-specific, ten-week creative writing workshop culminating in [...]

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