Metro Area Literary Events Fall 2006
October 2006
Sunday, 1st
Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney Sunday the 1st, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside.
Edited by Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney, Home Ground gathers together and defines hundreds of landscape terms by such writers as Barbara Kingsolver, Charles Frazier, and Jon Krakauer. Publishers Weekly raves, "This marvelous book enlivens readers to the rich diversity of Americans' complex relationship to the land." Lopez is an award-winning author known for his essays, short stories and fiction, often addressing issues of human culture and identity. Gwartney, an essayist and reviewer, teaches writing at Portland State University. Together they've edited "Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape," a geographical dictionary in which poets and writers from across the nation create more than 850 original definitions for terms such as cutbank, birdfoot delta, detroit riprap and swale.
Monday, 2nd
Cindy Sheehan Monday the 2nd, 7:00PM Bagdad Theater
In Cindy Sheehan's Peace Mom: A Mother's Journey through Heartache to Activism, the woman who turned grief into action and took her anti-war message to the President's doorstep tells her story in her own words — a wrenching tale of heroism that will inspire a new generation of activists. Please note: This free event takes place at the Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Seating is limited to first come, first served.
Isaiah Wilner, Monday the 2nd, 7:30 PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Isaiah Wilner presents The Man Time Forgot, the story of the genius behind Time magazine. In 1923, young Briton Hadden started Time magazine with his friend Henry R. Luce. At age 31, millionaire Hadden died and Luce began to take credit for his friend's innovations, effectively erasing Hadden's legacy. The true story of their tortured friendship has never before been told.
Tuesday, 3rd
A Writer's Coach, Tuesday the 3rd, 7:00 PM Powell's Books in Beaverton
Written by one of the most acclaimed writing coaches in America — and the managing editor of the Oregonian — Jack Hart's A Writer's Coach is an innovative, step-by-step approach to the writing process that is ideal for both journalism and creative nonfiction.
The United States of Arugula ,Tuesday the 3rd, 7:30 PM, Powell's City of Books on Burnside
David Kamp's The United States of Arugula is the rollicking, "engrossing" (Publishers Weekly) chronicle of how gourmet eating in America went from obscure to pervasive, thanks to the contributions of some outsized, opinionated iconoclasts who couldn't abide the status quo.
In Other Words, Oct. 3. Willa Schneberg will be reading from Storytelling in Cambodia, Calyx Books - a moving and image-rich cycle of linked poems that journeys from Cambodia’s mythic times to the killing fields to the U.N. presence during the first free elections. It bears witness to the plight of the Cambodian people and to all who have endured holocausts. It is truly a beautiful and heart-wrenching collection. Also reading: Anita Feng
Wednesday, 4th
Write Time Wednesday the 4th, 7:00PM Powell's Books in Beaverton
This writing critique group meets every other Wednesday to exchange and discuss their work. New members to the group are always welcome.
Philippa Gregory Wednesday the 4th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
The Constant Princess, the enthralling new novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Virgin's Lover, answers one of history's most intriguing questions: What lay behind Katherine of Aragon's enormous history-changing lie?
Oct. 4-8 Association of Personal Historians Conference. The program for the 12th annual Association of Personal Historians conference, scheduled Oct. 4-8 in Portland, Oregon, is available online at: http://www.personalhistorians.org/coninfo.html. The regular registration deadline ends Sept. 2, so you can save money by signing up now. You can register online as well. The program features more than 32 workshops on topics such as oral history interviewing, preserving and restoring old photos, digitizing audio cassettes, marketing, creating video biographies, public speaking, partnering with nonprofits, ethical wills and spiritual legacies, narrative journaling and many other topics. Dr. Laurie Mercier, associate professor at Washington State University--Vancouver and former Oral History Association president, will teach a two-part Introduction to Oral History workshop. Speakers are: *Newspaper columnist Bob Welch, an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Oregon. *Lauren Kessler, director of Literary Nonfiction at the University of Oregon, who will talk about "Your Truth, The Truth, Whose Truth? The Personal Historian's Guide to Insight, Honesty and Storytelling—Where fact ends and fiction begins." Ursula Bacon: Leaving footsteps in the sand--Author of The Nervous Hostess Cookbook: A Comforting Guide to Worry-Free Entertaining, Shanghai Diary and the upcoming prequel Eternal Strangers, Ursula Bacon has helped bring 350 book titles to life in the past twenty years as co-owner of Bacon Bestsellers with her husband, Thorn.
Julie McDonald ZanderChapters of Lifehttp://www.chaptersoflife.com/Association of Personal HistoriansAPH 2006 Conference Program Chair
Thursday, 5th
First Thursday: Brandland Thursday the 5th, 7:00PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
What is the Wieden+Kennedy12's "Brandland"? Mint flavored crystal forests. Smooth, silky, chocolate, milky rivers. Squirrels in the park feast on nut and nugget wafers. This is "Brandland." A place built of seductive, delicious, neon light plastic, rich, creamy cement and solid, chiseled glass titanium edging.
Thom Hartmann presents Screwed. Location: Annie Bloom's Books October 5, 2006 7:30 PMDescription: In Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class, Thom Hartmann argues that the middle class is not the natural consequence of a free market based economy, but rather, the intended result of policies put into place to maximize the public good. Unfortunately, the American middle class is on its deathbed. People who put in a solid day's work can no longer afford to buy a house, send their kids to college, or even get sick. This is because a covert war, waged by conservative and corporate forces, is dismantling policies like Social Security, Medicare, the minimum wage, and fair labor laws. The result is the unnatural extinction of the middle class and the economy that Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower envisioned. Under the guise of "freeing" the market, conservatives have enriched themselves and their fat-cat cronies and screwed everyone else. By exposing the machinations of those whose greed and irresponsibility is destroying the middle class, Screwed empowers readers to stand up, speak out, and return America to the principles envisioned by its founders.
JAN BARROWS. Location: Twenty-Third Avenue Books October 5, 2006 7:00 PMDescription: Magical realism that seduces the reader from beginning to end! When Ooligan's acquisitions committee discussed this marvelous first novel by Portland photographer/painter/dramatist Baross, the superlatives and exclamations wouldn't stop. Word spread, and soon Ooligan's other student publishers were waiting in line to read this novel set in a fictional Mexican coastal village. "Jose" is the story of Tortugina, the narrator, whose happiness and hardship are tied to the sea and to the men in her life, from her demanding father and dead lover to her cruel, abusive husband and beautiful, sensitive son.
The Littlest Hitler Thursday the 5th, 7:30PM Powell's Books on Hawthorne
In each of the fearless, hilarious, and tightly crafted stories that comprise The Littlest Hitler, Ryan Boudinot's voice rings with a clarity rarely seen in a debut collection: "[A] twisted, formidable storyteller...[a] dark and surefooted debut" (Publishers Weekly).
Friday, 6th
Marc Vassallo Friday the 6th, 7:00PM Powell's Books for Home & Garden
Relaxed, open, filled with light, and intimately connected to the outdoors, the houses featured in Marc Vassallo's The Barefoot Home make living at home feel like being on vacation 365 days a year. Vassallo is co-author with Sarah Susanka of Inside the Not So Big House.
Jane Hamilton Friday the 6th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Jane Hamilton, award-winning author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World, is back in top form with When Madeline Was Young, a richly textured novel about a tragic accident and its effects on two generations of a family.
Saturday, 7th
George Noory Saturday the 7th, 1:00PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
In Worker in the Light, the host of America's top late-night radio talk show, Coast to Coast AM, George Noory has woven his life's work into both an amazing memoir and a miraculous key that readers can use to unlock the secret to their own sensual transcendence and liberate their limitless potential.
Sunday, 8th
The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot Sunday the 8th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
The recent National Geographic special on the Gospel of Judas introduced to millions of viewers one of the most important biblical discoveries of modern times. Now, in The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot, Bart Ehrman, a leading historian of the early church, offers the first comprehensive account of the newly discovered Gospel.
Oct. 8 7:30
New American Art Union, 922 SE Ankeny Street, Portland
The Spare Room presents readings with Mary Burger & Nico Vassilakis $5.00 donation suggested. For more info please see www.flim.com/spareroom or contact spareroom@flim.com
Monday, 9th
Janet Fitch Monday the 9th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
From Janet Fitch, the bestselling author of White Oleander, comes Paint It Black, a powerful novel of passion, first love, and a young woman's search for a true world in the aftermath of loss. "A page-turning psychodrama," declares Publishers Weekly.
I Love Monday! Poetry Night: Dan Raphael introduces Jodi Varon and David Axelrod, Curtis Whitecarroll and Keith Rothschild, 7 p.m., Borders Portland, 708 SW Third Ave.
City of Readers: Portland author Gabriel Bodhmer discusses his book, 7:30 Powell's Books on Hawthorne, 3723 SW Hawthorne Blvd.
The Book Lover's Guide to Portland Monday the 9th, 7:30PM Powell's Books on Hawthorne. In City of Readers: The Book Lover's Guide to Portland, Gabriel Boehmer helps readers navigate the rising tide of literary choices along the banks of the Willamette, including the 25 best reading spots around town.
Tuesday, 10th
Sci-Fi Book Group Tuesday the 10th, 7:00PM Powell's Books in Beaverton
This month we meet to discuss At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft. New members to the group are always welcome.
City of Readers: Portland author Gabriel Boehmer discusses his book, 7 pm, Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway.
Ken Jennings: The author discusses his book, Brainiac, 7 pm, Barnes & Noble, Clackamas Town Center, 12000 SE 82nd Ave.
Edward Perkins discusses his book, Mr. Ambassador, 7 pm, Borders Portland, 708 SW Third Ave.
Jim Lynch presents his book The Highest Tide, 6:30 pm, Sellwood-Moreland Library, 7860 SE 13th Ave.
Cheryl Strayed and Randy Sue Coburn: Strayed reads from her book, Torch, and Coburn discusses her book, Owl Island, 7 pm, In Other Words, 8 NE Killingsworth St.
Colin Cotterill Tuesday the 10th, 7:00PM Powell's Books in Beaverton
Colin Cotterill's Disco for the Departed, the third book in his Dr. Siri Paiboun series, finds the spry, wry national coroner of Laos picking up a few new dance moves courtesy of a Cuban relief worker whose spirit takes up residence in the old doctor's body.
John Hodgman, Tuesday the 10th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
The Areas of My Expertise is the brilliant and uproarious #15 bestseller that is a lavish compendium of handy reference tables, fascinating trivia, and sage wisdom — all of it completely fabricated by the illuminating, prodigious imagination of The Daily Show's John Hodgman, certifiable genius.
Oct. 10 7:30 Calvin Trillin
Calvin Trillin to Open Literary Arts’ 2006-2007 Portland Arts & Lectures Series Due to an unforeseen change in events, Joan Didion has cancelled her fall travel and will not appear in Portland Arts & Lectures on October 5, 2006. Literary Arts is pleased to announce that Ms. Didion’s friend and colleague Calvin Trillin will commence the 2006-2007 Portland Arts & Lectures series. Calvin Trillin is a longtime contributor to The New Yorker and the “deadline poet” for The Nation, where he writes a column of comic verse about contemporary politics. He is perhaps best known for his writing about food and American regional cuisine, collected in The Tummy Trilogy (1994). His forthcoming memoir, About Alice, follows his recent New Yorker article, “Alice, Off the Page.” In 1984, Trillin kicked off the inaugural Portland Arts & Lectures season. Visiting in 1989, he praised the Northwest as “everybody’s favorite region.”
Portland Arts & Lectures is a program of Literary Arts, a statewide, nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the importance of language as a means to express, explore and experience the world in which we live. The programs of Literary Arts are: Oregon Book Awards, Oregon Literary Fellowships, Portland Arts & Lectures, Poetry Downtown, Poetry in Motion®, Writers in the Schools and Delve: Readers' Seminars. For more information, please call Literary Arts at 503.227.2583 or visit www.literary-arts.org.
Oct. 10 7:30, Looking Glass Bookstore, 318 SW Taylor St. Portland
Willa Schneberg will be reading from Storytelling in Cambodia, Calyx Books - a moving and image-rich cycle of linked poems that journeys from Cambodia’s mythic times to the killing fields to the U.N. presence during the first free elections. It bears witness to the plight of the Cambodian people and to all who have endured holocausts. It is truly a beautiful and heart-wrenching collection. Also reading: Angie Chuang
Wednesday, 11th
Michael Lewis in conversation with Rob Neyer Wednesday the 11th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside. In The Blind Side Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball, delivers a multidimensional story that traces the upbringing of a young boy who will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League, all through the lens of sports and his community of support. ESPN's Rob Neyer joins Lewis for this event.
Anna Deavere Smith: The author, playwright, and professor speaks on the book Snapshots: Glimpses of America in Change, 7:30 pm, Voices Lecture Series, First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park Ave, $55 tickets, 243-3440.
Jefferson Davis discusses the book Weird Hauntings, 7 pm, Barnes & Noble, Clackamas Town Center, 12000 SE 82nd Ave.
Carleen Cross presents her book Fleeing Fundamentalism at 7 pm, Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway.
Jude Siegel presents A Pacific Northwest Nature Sketchbook. Location: Annie Bloom's October 11, 2006 7:30 PMDescription: Keeping an illustrated nature sketchbook can be eye opening, and anyone can do it, at home or while traveling. This step-by-step guide to painting scenes of nature offers dozens of practical tips for combining watercolor and ink to create pages rich in personal meaning. Exercises include warming up, making thumbnail sketches, choosing a manageable subject, changing perspective, seeing patterns, creating depth and distance, and using color. Lavishly illustrated with more than 140 of the author's original watercolors of Oregon and Washington.
Thursday, 12th
Spider Robinson, Thursday the 12th, 7:00PM Powell's Books in Beaverton
A never-before-published masterpiece from science fiction grandmaster Robert A. Heinlein, completed by Hugo- and Nebula-winning author Spider Robinson, Variable Star depicts a cosmic cataclysm so devastating it would take all of humanity's strength and ingenuity just to survive.
Thursday, October 12, 2006 7:30 PM
Emily Wu and Larry Engelmann present Feather in the Storm. Location: Annie Bloom'sDescription: Feather in the Storm: A Childhood Lost in Chaos is the powerful story of a child (Emily Wu) caught up in an historical upheaval whose forces are beyond her control has a universal appeal as it sweeps you up with its profound and passionate emotions.
Susan E. Frost signs copies of her book, Portland, Oregon, 4 pm, Advance Camera, 8124 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway.
Michael Meade: The noted author and storyteller discusses his book A Poetics of Peace, 7 pm, The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave.
Deadly Diversions Mystery Book Group Thursday the 12th, 7:00PM Powell's Books in Beaverton This month our group meets to discuss The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill. New members to the group are always welcome.
Jane Poynter Thursday the 12th, 7:30PM Powell's Books on Hawthorne
In The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes inside Biosphere 2, Jane Poynter gives us the dirt on what really happened from an insider's perspective: food became scarce, oxygen levels dropped, people were hungry all the time, factions were formed, and she lost part of a finger in a threshing accident.
Spider Robinson: The author discusses his book Variable Star, a work he completed from Robert A. Heinlein's outline, 7 pm, Powell's Books Cascade Plaza, 8725 SW Cascade Plaza, Beaverton.
Oct. 12 5:30, Pacific NW Booksellers Association, Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Portland. Willa Schneberg will be reading from Storytelling in Cambodia, Calyx Books - a moving and image-rich cycle of linked poems that journeys from Cambodia’s mythic times to the killing fields to the U.N. presence during the first free elections. It bears witness to the plight of the Cambodian people and to all who have endured holocausts. It is truly a beautiful and heart-wrenching collection
Friday, 13th
A Very Unfortunate Event: Lemony Snicket Release Party Friday the 13th, 2:00PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside. All good things must come to an end — and fortunately, so must all terrible things. Hence, Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events comes to a long-awaited close with the thirteenth volume, titled The End. To celebrate our freedom from these oppressive little books, we encourage kids to dress up in their least favorite costumes, play wretched games, and attempt to win prizes that probably ought not to be discussed in civilized company. We promise you a disastrous time. Don't come — you'll be sorry if you do.
Lt. Col. Jay Kopelman, with his dog, discusses his book From Baghdad, With Love, 7 pm, Borders Gresham, 687 NW 12th St., Gresham.
Maureen McQueery reads from her book Wolfproof, 7 pm, Borders Vancouver, 811 SE 160th Ave., Vancouver.
Graham Salisbury: The Portland-area author reads from his book House of the Red Fish, 7 pm borders Bridgeport Village, 7227 SW Bridgeport Rd., Tigard.
Obert Skye: The author reads from his book Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret, 7 pm, Borders Beaverton, 2605 SW Cedar Hills Blvd.; 1 pm Saturday at Borders Portland, 708 SW Third Ave, and 4 pm, Saturday, Borders Gresham, 687 NW 12th, Gresham.
Melanie Rawn & Kate Elliott Friday the 13th, 7:00PM Powell's Books in Beaverton
Melanie Rawn's Spellbinder brings to vivid life a New York City that has a small, discrete population of witches and wizards who live and love and go dancing just like everyone else. Kate Elliott's Spirit Gate is a haunting fantasy adventure of people swept up by the chaos of war, from the bestselling author of The Crown of Stars.
Laila Lalami Friday the 13th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
In this "unexpected and enthralling read from a promising new voice,” Lalami evokes the grit and enduring grace that is modern Morocco. Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits begins as four Moroccans illegally cross the Strait of Gibraltar in an inflatable boat headed for Spain. What has driven them to risk their lives?
Oct. 13-15 Retreat, Caldera Arts Retreat, Central Oregon near Sisters
CREATIVE NONFICTION With Judith BarringtonThis workshop will focus on the ways you transform life experiences into literature, addressing the memoir and the personal essay in particular. We will divide our time between discussion of some major issues of craft and ethics that come up when writing personal stories, and writing exercises that may lead to longer pieces you can continue after the workshop. We will focus on generating new writing (which may fit into a larger project if you are already working on a story).There will be a visit from guest editor, Ruth Gundle, with a session on editing narrative prose.Judith will give a reading from her work on the Saturday at 5 pm at Caldera, open to workshop participants and to the public.Friday night dinner is provided; shared accommodation is in the residency's A-frame cabins. Judith Barrington is the author of three volumes of poetry, most recently Horses and the Human Soul (Story Line Press, 2004). Lifesaving: A Memoir, was the 2000 winner of the Lambda Book Award and finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award. Recently featured on NPR in Garrison Keillor's "Writer's Almanac", she has won many prizes for both poetry and creative nonfiction, and teaches at workshops across the U.S. and in Britain.For more information, cost, and registration: Linda Johnson: 503.937.7877 or linda.johnson@wk.com http://www.calderaarts.org/
Saturday, 14th
Tess Gallagher: The poet reads from her new collection Dear Ghosts, 2 pm, Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway.
Heather C. Flores discusses her book Food Not Lawns, 7 pm, St. Johns Booksellers, 8622 N. Lombard St.
Lawson Fusao Inada, Oregon's Poet Laureate, reads poetry with jazz accompaniment by Larry Nobori, Rick Homer, Andre St. James, and Gordon Lee, 8 pm, the Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., $20.
Kirby Larson reads from her book, Hattie Big Sky, 2 pm, Borders Beaverton, 2605 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beverton.
Jim LaMarche reads from his book, Up, 2 pm, Barnes & Noble Clackamas Town Center, 12000 SE 82nd Ave.
The Plays of Pulitzer Prize Winner Wendy Wasserstein at Profile Theatre. Get Your Tickets Now (Go to www.profiletheatre.org). The complete works of American playwright Wendy Wasserstein, who died earlier this year at the age of 56, will be produced at Profile Theatre in SE Portland this season, starting with "An American Daughter" opening on October 14 and running through November 12. Four plays will be fully staged and the other three will be offered as staged readings. Wasserstein deals with such issues as striking a balance between work and family with wit and honesty. In its tenth anniversary season, Profile Theatre, under the artistic direction of Jane Unger, provides first-class acting in a very intimate setting.The first play, "An American Daughter," deals with media scrutiny of a female candidate for Surgeon General. Given the Hillary Factor, this play could not be more timely. The next, "The Heidi Chronicles," won the Pulitzer and follows art historian Heidi Holland through two decades of personal change and growth as women question their roles in society and negotiate new identities.These plays are perfect to generate discussion about women's roles in society, women and politics, Jewish women in a WASP world, strengths and weaknesses of all-women educational institutions, as well as other topics, including social class (one play is entitled "Old Money"). The Profile Theatre is the only theatre in Portland to offer the works of a single playwright each theatre season. For more information and to buy tickets, go to: www.profiletheatre.org
Sunday, 15th
Two Glimpses of Iran Sunday the 15th, 1:00PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Meghan Nuttall Sayres and Susan Fletcher present from their new young adult novels, both inspired by Persian history, culture, and landscape. In Alphabet of Dreams, Fletcher returns to ancient Persia with a spellbinding tale that re-imagines the wonder and spirit of a lost age. In Anahita's Woven Riddle, Sayres weaves a richly detailed and enchanting debut novel, set in 20th-century Persia, that explores the art of weaving, the rhythms of nomadic life, and the beauty of the Muslim faith. Sayers and Fletcher traveled to Iran to research their novels; they'll show slides, talk about their visits to Iran, and answer questions.
Conservatize Me. Sunday the 15th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
In the tradition of Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me, Conservatize Me: How I Tried to Become a Righty with the Help of Richard Nixon, Sean Hannity, Toby Keith, and Beef Jerky recounts how liberal John Moe submerged himself in the conservative culture, in an eye-opening look at the perilous state of American politics.
Monday, 16th
Life, Death and Bialys. Monday the 16th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
The true story of a dying father and his estranged son bonding over a baking class, Dylan Schaffer's Life, Death and Bialys is a wonderful, irreverent account of letting go of the past, learning how to forgive, and how making a decent baguette is harder than it looks.
No Plot? No Problem! Monday the 16th, 7:30PM Powell's Books on Hawthorne
In Chris Baty's No Plot? No Problem! novel-writing kit, the founder of National Novel Writing Month (which is conducted each November) reveals the secrets to writing a complete novel in only 30 days. This handbook is the ultimate guide for would-be writers — or those with writer's block — to cultivate their creative selves.
Monday, Broadway Books, October 16 * 7 pm - We welcome to the store Kit Bakke, author of the new "bio-memoir" Miss Alcott's E-mail: Yours for Reforms of All Kinds. Shortly after 9/11, in an attempt to find answers to some of life's large questions, Bakke sent an e-mail to Louisa May Alcott, one of her childhood heroines. What she learns from her "correspondence" is to be persistent in the face of difficulties, and that ideas really do matter: "if you let your brain be filled with trash, you're wasting the best part of yourself Respect your own brain and use it for important things And that leads to being courageous with our ideas and being willing to think independently." Come learn more about Louisa May Alcott and her relevance in today's world.
Tuesday, 17th
Andy Stern, Tuesday the 17th, 12:00PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
In A Country That Works Andy Stern, the maverick leader of the fastest-growing union in the United States, proposes a revolutionary paradigm for America and labor, in which workers and management and all Americans can thrive in the global economy.
Andy Summers. Tuesday the 17th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Andy Summers is best known as the guitar player for the Police, one of the best-loved and most enduring bands of the 1980s. But he was also part of the British rock scene of the '60s and '70s — friends, in fact, with icons like Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Burdon of the Animals. In his new memoir One Train Later, Summers details growing up in 1950s England; discovering the guitar, jazz, and Zen Buddhism; rambling around the London and Hollywood drug scenes of the '70s; and playing with the Police.
The Story of American Beer, Tuesday the 17th, 7:30PM Powell's Books on Hawthorne
In the first-ever history of American beer, Ambitious Brew, Maureen Ogle tells its epic story, from the immigrants who invented it to the upstart microbrewers who revived it.
Wednesday, 18th
Write Time, Wednesday the 18th, 7:00PM Powell's Books in Beaverton
This writing critique group meets every other Wednesday to exchange and discuss their work. New members to the group are always welcome.
David Callahan, Wednesday the 18th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
In The Moral Center, his forceful follow-up to The Cheating Culture, David Callahan argues that the problems for most Americans are issues that neither party is addressing: the selfishness that is careening out of control, the effect of a violent and consumerist culture on children, and the lack of a greater purpose.
Thursday, 19th
Michael Cox Thursday the 19th, 7:30PM Powell's Books on Hawthorne
Michael Cox's The Meaning of Night combines the atmosphere of Bleak House, the sensuous thrill of Perfume, and the mystery of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell in a story of murder, deceit, love, and revenge in Victorian England.
Thursday, October 19, 2006 7:30 PM, Jon Katz presents A Good Dog. Location: Annie Bloom'sDescription: In this gripping and deeply touching book, bestselling author Jon Katz tells the story of Orson: a beautiful border collie–intense, smart, crazy, and unforgettable. A Good Dog is a book to savor. Just as Orson was the author’s lifetime dog, his story is a lifetime treasure – poignant, timeless, and powerful.
Hampton Sides, Thursday the 19th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
In Blood and Thunder, Hampton Sides presents the magnificent history of how the West was really won — a sweeping tale of shame and glory that brings the history of the American conquest of the West to ringing life.
Friday 20th
Elizabeth George, Friday the 20th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
In her compelling new mystery, What Came before He Shot Her, Elizabeth George explores the unforgettable events leading up to a murder.
Saturday, 21st
Oct. 21 1-2:30, Central Branch, Multnomah Co. Library 801 SW 10th, Portland OR, 97205
Multnomah County Library present Writers Talking, a monthly program of readings from northwest authors. Where imagination meets the world: writers and their research How does research fit into our narratives, enriching them with texture and authenticity? How, when and where do we begin? Which questions — architectural styles? train schedules? exchange rates? weather? — need answers and which can we safely invent? In this panel, Portland writers Robin Cody, Martha Gies and Robin Schauffler talk about the role of research in their past and current work. (http://www.multcolib.org/events/writers.html)
Sunday, 22nd
The Big Book of Girl Stuff, Sunday the 22nd, 1:00PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Bart King's The Big Book of Girl Stuff is packed with amazing facts, activities, and everything you need to know about how cool it is to be a girl, including: how to make a friendship bracelet; why boys smell so bad; how to shop; and much more!
Monday, 23rd
Oregon Writers Colony Presents Dianna Rodgers Monday the 23rd, 7:00PM Powell's Books in Beaverton Life coach and counselor Dianna Rodgers joins Oregon Writers Colony this month for a presentation for writers to help them both define and achieve their goals. She has presented at state, national, and international conferences. Rodgers fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies, and she's editing a soon-to-be released anthology titled Ghosts at the Coast.
Jacob Hacker, Monday the 23rd, 7:30PM Powell's Books on Hawthorne
America's leaders say the economy is strong and getting stronger. But ordinary Americans aren't buying it. In The Great Risk Shift, Jacob S. Hacker lays bare this unsettling new economic climate, showing how it has come about, what it is doing to our families, and how we can fight back.
William Kittredge, Monday the 23rd, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Following his heralded memoir A Hole in the Sky, The Willow Field — an epic first novel that stretches over the twentieth century, from the settlers, cowboys, and gamblers who opened up this country to the landholders and politicians who ran it — ratifies William Kittredge's standing as a leading writer of the American West.
Tuesday, 24th
Richard Ford, Tuesday the 24th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
The Lay of the Land, Richard Ford's first novel in over a decade, continues the story cycle begun in his award-winning The Sportswriter. In the fall of 2000, with the presidential election still hanging in the balance, Thanksgiving looms before Frank Bascombe with all the perils of a post-nuclear family get-together.
Tuesday, Broadway Books, October 24 * 7 pm - Local author Lee Montgomery is the editorial director of Tin House Books and the executive editor of Tin House magazine. Her family, the Montgomerys of Framingham, Massachusetts, are the last of a dying breed - New England WASPs who effortlessly combine repression, flamboyant eccentricity, and alcoholism. Fragmented by drink and dysfunction, the family has avoided assembling under one roof for more than a decade. But when Big Dad, the patriarch, is diagnosed with stomach cancer, the siblings all return to their childhood home. The Things Between Us is Montgomery's alternately wrenching and riotous story of her family reuniting as one of their own is dying, evoking the often unspoken bonds between family members - bonds made of memory, love, and disappointment.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006 5:00 PM, join Rob Neyer for Game 3 of the World Series! Location: O'Connor's AnnexDescription: Join Rob Neyer, espn.com analyst and author of The Big Book of Baseball Bloopers, for Game 3 of the 2006 Major League Baseball World Series. Come cheer like a kid and second guess with an expert. What better way to enjoy America’s pastime than with a room full of baseball fanatics? The event will begin just before the start of the game, so check back for the exact time. Also, thanks to O'Connors Restaurant for the use of their Annex ... and their big screen TV!
Wednesday 25th
Classics Book Group, Wednesday the 25th, 7:00PM Powell's Books in Beaverton
This month our group meets to discuss Edgar Allen Poe's short stories. New members to the group are always welcome.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:00 PM, GEORGE WRIGHT. Location: Twenty-Third Avenue Books. Description: Tillamook 1952 -On August 24, 1933, Verlin Victory Lundigun, 32, catches a piece of pitch-fired fl... Tillamook 1952 -On August 24, 1933, Verlin Victory Lundigun, 32, catches a piece of pitch-fired flaming tree trunk with his face. He is one warrior among thousands fighting the fiercest forest fire in U.S. history—the infamous Tillamook Burn. Verlin lives that day, but nine months later he is dead from a gunshot. Eighteen years later a nephew is driven to find out why and how his uncle died.
Ed Viesturs, Wednesday the 25th, 7:00PM Bagdad Theater
As riveting as Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, Ed Viesturs's No Shortcuts to the Top is a gripping and triumphant memoir that follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time. Please note: This free event takes place at the Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Seating is limited to first come, first served.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:30 PM, Heather Sharfeddin presents Mineral Spirits. Location: Annie Bloom's. Description: Mineral Spirits is a contemporary western, a murder mystery set in Montana's Mineral County, which stretches narrow and remote along the Idaho border. Kip Edelson is the county's new sheriff. Pine trees outnumber people one-million to one there, but, beneath the idyllic-seeming surface of this scenic paradise, Edelson encounters drug-dealing, incest, and grinding poverty, as well as murder.
Thursday, 26th
The “Last Gasp” Open Mic Reading at Noon, CCC, Literary Arts Center (RR 220).
Melissa Fay Greene, Thursday the 26th, 7:30PM Powell's Books on Hawthorne
There Is No Me without You is the story of Haregewoin Tefarra, a middle-aged Ethiopian woman of modest means whose home has become a refuge for hundreds of children orphaned by AIDS. Melissa Fay Greene, author of Praying for Sheetrock, gives us an astonishing portrait of a woman fighting a continent-wide epidemic.
Thursday, October 26, 2006 7:30 PM, Amy Scheibe presents What Do You Do All Day? Location: Annie Bloom's. Description: Bright, witty, and covered in homemade playdough, Jennifer Bradley has traded her fabulous job at a New York auction house for the life of a stay at home mom. For Jennifer, sanity itself is a treasure among the playground set, given the pitfalls: If it's not the nasty mother-in-law, who insists that her precious grandchildren be exposed to the dubious advantages of the Upper East Side, it's her husband, Thom, who announces he'll be on the road to Singapore for the next who-knows-how-long. What Do You Do All Day? is a sparkling story of love, lust, and the joys of modern motherhood.
Kate Atkinson, Thursday the 26th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
One Good Turn is a brilliant new thriller from Kate Atkinson, author of 2005's breakout favorite Case Histories, again featuring the irresistibly reluctant detective Jackson Brodie.
Thursday, October 26, 2006 7:00 PM, GERARD DONOVAN. Location: Twenty-Third Avenue Books. Description: Julius Winsome... From the author of "Schopenhauer's Telescope" comes a beautiful and haunting novel of vengeance, literature, love, isolation, and man's tenuous grasp on reason.
MAILE MELOY, Thursday, October 26, 8 p.m.Reed College Psychology Auditorium.
Maile Meloy was born in Helena, Montana. Her most recent novel is A Family Daughter. Her short stories have been published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review, and her first story collection, Half in Love, received the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the John C. Zacharis Award from Ploughshares, and the PEN/Malamud Award. Her first novel, Liars and Saints, was shortlisted for England’s 2005 Orange Prize. She has also received The Paris Review’s Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in California.
Friday, 27th
Richard Dawkins, Friday the 27th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
In The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins (recently called "Darwin's Rottweiler" by Discover magazine for his fierce defense of evolution) turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes.
Saturday, 28th
R. A. Salvatore, Saturday the 28th, 7:00PM Powell's Books in Beaverton
Road of the Patriarch, the final title in the Sellswords series from New York Times bestselling author R.A. Salvatore, continues the escapades of Entreri and Jarlaxle, as they encounter the wrath of an angry paladin king in the dangerous Bloodstone Lands.
Sunday, 29th
Sunday, October 29 at Marylhurst University, 3 p.m. - 4 p.m. Voices in the Wind: Poet, Composers and Performers in Collaboration. Dr. John Paul, department chair of Music, Judith Barrington, poet. Voices in the Wind features the poetry of Judith Barrington set to music by Marylhurst composers and will be performed by Marylhurst voice faculty in a unique recital/presentation. Poets, composers, and performers will be on hand to discuss the intimate collaboration between the literary and musical arts that is the essence of song.
The Nature of Words, Central Oregon's Premier Literary Event, November 2-5, 2006. A long weekend of readings, workshops, dinner and panel discussion and an open mike session. Guest Authors: David Guterson, James Galvin, Alexandra Fuller, Craig Lesley, Robert Michael Pyle, Linda Hussa, Lawson Inada, Robert Wrigley. All events are held in Bend, Oregon. Reading, Workshop and Dinner/Panel Discussion tickets can be purchased from The Ticket Mill, Shops at The Old Mill, Phone: 541.318.5457. Reading tickets only can be purchased from the Tower Theatre, www.towertheatre.org , Phone 541.317.0700.
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Tuesday, 7th
Reading from the anthology Long Journey: Contemporary Northwest Poets. Powell's Downtown, NW 10th & Burnside, Tuesday, November 7, 7:30pm.Portland readers: Judith Barrington, James Grabill, Paulann Petersen, Vern Rutsala, Carlos Reyes, Lisa M. Steinman, & Sandra Stone.
Wednesday, 8th
November 8 Readings by Oregon Book Awards Finalists 6:30 p.m., Japanese Garden (611 SW Kingston Avenue, Portland) Hosted by Portland Monthly and author Chelsea Cain Tickets: $10 at 503.222.5144 x133
Thursday, 9th
Alison Heimowitz, CCC Environmental Learning Center, on the Environment and Water, 11:00, LAC (RR 220).
Thursday, November 9, 2006 7:00 PM, JOYCE MAYNARD. Location: Twenty-Third Avenue Books. Description: Internal Combustion: The Story of a Marriage and a Murder in the Motor City... On Mother's Day night, 2004, award-winning fourth grade teacher Nancy Seaman left the Tudor home she shared with her husband of thirty two years in the gated community of Farmington Hills, near Detroit, Michigan, and drove in a driving rain storm to Home Depot, to purchase a hatchet. Three days later, police discovered the mutilated body of Bob Seaman - a successful auto industry engineer, softball coach and passionate collector of vintage Mustangs - in the back of the family's Ford Explorer. As in Joyce Maynard's previous books - including "To Die For," based on a true crime, and her best selling memoir, "At Home in the World" - Joyce Maynard's themes here involve family secrets, the deep fissures that lie below the surface of the glittering exteriors, and the deep, potentially fatal, fissures in the American Dream.
ILYA KAMINSKY, Thursday, November 9, 8 p.m.Reed College Psychology Auditorium.
Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa, former Soviet Union in 1977, and arrived to the United States in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the American government. Ilya is the author of Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004) which won the Whiting Writer's Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Metcalf Award, the Dorset Prize, the Ruth Lilly Fellowship given annually by Poetry magazine. Dancing In Odessa was also named Best Poetry Book of the Year 2004 by ForeWord Magazine.
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Sunday, 12th
Nov. 12 7:30, New American Art Union, 922 SE Ankeny Street, Portland
The Spare Room presents readings with Elizabeth Arnold & Patrick Hartigan $5.00 donation suggested. For more info please see www.flim.com/spareroom or contact spareroom@flim.com
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Wednesday, 15th
November 15 Readings by Oregon Book Awards Finalists 6:30 p.m., Japanese Garden (611 SW Kingston Avenue, Portland) Hosted by Portland Monthly and author Marc Acito Tickets: $10 at 503.222.5144 x133
Sunday, 1st
Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney Sunday the 1st, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside.
Edited by Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney, Home Ground gathers together and defines hundreds of landscape terms by such writers as Barbara Kingsolver, Charles Frazier, and Jon Krakauer. Publishers Weekly raves, "This marvelous book enlivens readers to the rich diversity of Americans' complex relationship to the land." Lopez is an award-winning author known for his essays, short stories and fiction, often addressing issues of human culture and identity. Gwartney, an essayist and reviewer, teaches writing at Portland State University. Together they've edited "Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape," a geographical dictionary in which poets and writers from across the nation create more than 850 original definitions for terms such as cutbank, birdfoot delta, detroit riprap and swale.
Monday, 2nd
Cindy Sheehan Monday the 2nd, 7:00PM Bagdad Theater
In Cindy Sheehan's Peace Mom: A Mother's Journey through Heartache to Activism, the woman who turned grief into action and took her anti-war message to the President's doorstep tells her story in her own words — a wrenching tale of heroism that will inspire a new generation of activists. Please note: This free event takes place at the Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Seating is limited to first come, first served.
Isaiah Wilner, Monday the 2nd, 7:30 PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Isaiah Wilner presents The Man Time Forgot, the story of the genius behind Time magazine. In 1923, young Briton Hadden started Time magazine with his friend Henry R. Luce. At age 31, millionaire Hadden died and Luce began to take credit for his friend's innovations, effectively erasing Hadden's legacy. The true story of their tortured friendship has never before been told.
Tuesday, 3rd
A Writer's Coach, Tuesday the 3rd, 7:00 PM Powell's Books in Beaverton
Written by one of the most acclaimed writing coaches in America — and the managing editor of the Oregonian — Jack Hart's A Writer's Coach is an innovative, step-by-step approach to the writing process that is ideal for both journalism and creative nonfiction.
The United States of Arugula ,Tuesday the 3rd, 7:30 PM, Powell's City of Books on Burnside
David Kamp's The United States of Arugula is the rollicking, "engrossing" (Publishers Weekly) chronicle of how gourmet eating in America went from obscure to pervasive, thanks to the contributions of some outsized, opinionated iconoclasts who couldn't abide the status quo.
In Other Words, Oct. 3. Willa Schneberg will be reading from Storytelling in Cambodia, Calyx Books - a moving and image-rich cycle of linked poems that journeys from Cambodia’s mythic times to the killing fields to the U.N. presence during the first free elections. It bears witness to the plight of the Cambodian people and to all who have endured holocausts. It is truly a beautiful and heart-wrenching collection. Also reading: Anita Feng
Wednesday, 4th
Write Time Wednesday the 4th, 7:00PM Powell's Books in Beaverton
This writing critique group meets every other Wednesday to exchange and discuss their work. New members to the group are always welcome.
Philippa Gregory Wednesday the 4th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
The Constant Princess, the enthralling new novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Virgin's Lover, answers one of history's most intriguing questions: What lay behind Katherine of Aragon's enormous history-changing lie?
Oct. 4-8 Association of Personal Historians Conference. The program for the 12th annual Association of Personal Historians conference, scheduled Oct. 4-8 in Portland, Oregon, is available online at: http://www.personalhistorians.org/coninfo.html. The regular registration deadline ends Sept. 2, so you can save money by signing up now. You can register online as well. The program features more than 32 workshops on topics such as oral history interviewing, preserving and restoring old photos, digitizing audio cassettes, marketing, creating video biographies, public speaking, partnering with nonprofits, ethical wills and spiritual legacies, narrative journaling and many other topics. Dr. Laurie Mercier, associate professor at Washington State University--Vancouver and former Oral History Association president, will teach a two-part Introduction to Oral History workshop. Speakers are: *Newspaper columnist Bob Welch, an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Oregon. *Lauren Kessler, director of Literary Nonfiction at the University of Oregon, who will talk about "Your Truth, The Truth, Whose Truth? The Personal Historian's Guide to Insight, Honesty and Storytelling—Where fact ends and fiction begins." Ursula Bacon: Leaving footsteps in the sand--Author of The Nervous Hostess Cookbook: A Comforting Guide to Worry-Free Entertaining, Shanghai Diary and the upcoming prequel Eternal Strangers, Ursula Bacon has helped bring 350 book titles to life in the past twenty years as co-owner of Bacon Bestsellers with her husband, Thorn.
Julie McDonald ZanderChapters of Lifehttp://www.chaptersoflife.com/Association of Personal HistoriansAPH 2006 Conference Program Chair
Thursday, 5th
First Thursday: Brandland Thursday the 5th, 7:00PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
What is the Wieden+Kennedy12's "Brandland"? Mint flavored crystal forests. Smooth, silky, chocolate, milky rivers. Squirrels in the park feast on nut and nugget wafers. This is "Brandland." A place built of seductive, delicious, neon light plastic, rich, creamy cement and solid, chiseled glass titanium edging.
Thom Hartmann presents Screwed. Location: Annie Bloom's Books October 5, 2006 7:30 PMDescription: In Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class, Thom Hartmann argues that the middle class is not the natural consequence of a free market based economy, but rather, the intended result of policies put into place to maximize the public good. Unfortunately, the American middle class is on its deathbed. People who put in a solid day's work can no longer afford to buy a house, send their kids to college, or even get sick. This is because a covert war, waged by conservative and corporate forces, is dismantling policies like Social Security, Medicare, the minimum wage, and fair labor laws. The result is the unnatural extinction of the middle class and the economy that Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower envisioned. Under the guise of "freeing" the market, conservatives have enriched themselves and their fat-cat cronies and screwed everyone else. By exposing the machinations of those whose greed and irresponsibility is destroying the middle class, Screwed empowers readers to stand up, speak out, and return America to the principles envisioned by its founders.
JAN BARROWS. Location: Twenty-Third Avenue Books October 5, 2006 7:00 PMDescription: Magical realism that seduces the reader from beginning to end! When Ooligan's acquisitions committee discussed this marvelous first novel by Portland photographer/painter/dramatist Baross, the superlatives and exclamations wouldn't stop. Word spread, and soon Ooligan's other student publishers were waiting in line to read this novel set in a fictional Mexican coastal village. "Jose" is the story of Tortugina, the narrator, whose happiness and hardship are tied to the sea and to the men in her life, from her demanding father and dead lover to her cruel, abusive husband and beautiful, sensitive son.
The Littlest Hitler Thursday the 5th, 7:30PM Powell's Books on Hawthorne
In each of the fearless, hilarious, and tightly crafted stories that comprise The Littlest Hitler, Ryan Boudinot's voice rings with a clarity rarely seen in a debut collection: "[A] twisted, formidable storyteller...[a] dark and surefooted debut" (Publishers Weekly).
Friday, 6th
Marc Vassallo Friday the 6th, 7:00PM Powell's Books for Home & Garden
Relaxed, open, filled with light, and intimately connected to the outdoors, the houses featured in Marc Vassallo's The Barefoot Home make living at home feel like being on vacation 365 days a year. Vassallo is co-author with Sarah Susanka of Inside the Not So Big House.
Jane Hamilton Friday the 6th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Jane Hamilton, award-winning author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World, is back in top form with When Madeline Was Young, a richly textured novel about a tragic accident and its effects on two generations of a family.
Saturday, 7th
George Noory Saturday the 7th, 1:00PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
In Worker in the Light, the host of America's top late-night radio talk show, Coast to Coast AM, George Noory has woven his life's work into both an amazing memoir and a miraculous key that readers can use to unlock the secret to their own sensual transcendence and liberate their limitless potential.
Sunday, 8th
The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot Sunday the 8th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
The recent National Geographic special on the Gospel of Judas introduced to millions of viewers one of the most important biblical discoveries of modern times. Now, in The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot, Bart Ehrman, a leading historian of the early church, offers the first comprehensive account of the newly discovered Gospel.
Oct. 8 7:30
New American Art Union, 922 SE Ankeny Street, Portland
The Spare Room presents readings with Mary Burger & Nico Vassilakis $5.00 donation suggested. For more info please see www.flim.com/spareroom or contact spareroom@flim.com
Monday, 9th
Janet Fitch Monday the 9th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
From Janet Fitch, the bestselling author of White Oleander, comes Paint It Black, a powerful novel of passion, first love, and a young woman's search for a true world in the aftermath of loss. "A page-turning psychodrama," declares Publishers Weekly.
I Love Monday! Poetry Night: Dan Raphael introduces Jodi Varon and David Axelrod, Curtis Whitecarroll and Keith Rothschild, 7 p.m., Borders Portland, 708 SW Third Ave.
City of Readers: Portland author Gabriel Bodhmer discusses his book, 7:30 Powell's Books on Hawthorne, 3723 SW Hawthorne Blvd.
The Book Lover's Guide to Portland Monday the 9th, 7:30PM Powell's Books on Hawthorne. In City of Readers: The Book Lover's Guide to Portland, Gabriel Boehmer helps readers navigate the rising tide of literary choices along the banks of the Willamette, including the 25 best reading spots around town.
Tuesday, 10th
Sci-Fi Book Group Tuesday the 10th, 7:00PM Powell's Books in Beaverton
This month we meet to discuss At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft. New members to the group are always welcome.
City of Readers: Portland author Gabriel Boehmer discusses his book, 7 pm, Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway.
Ken Jennings: The author discusses his book, Brainiac, 7 pm, Barnes & Noble, Clackamas Town Center, 12000 SE 82nd Ave.
Edward Perkins discusses his book, Mr. Ambassador, 7 pm, Borders Portland, 708 SW Third Ave.
Jim Lynch presents his book The Highest Tide, 6:30 pm, Sellwood-Moreland Library, 7860 SE 13th Ave.
Cheryl Strayed and Randy Sue Coburn: Strayed reads from her book, Torch, and Coburn discusses her book, Owl Island, 7 pm, In Other Words, 8 NE Killingsworth St.
Colin Cotterill Tuesday the 10th, 7:00PM Powell's Books in Beaverton
Colin Cotterill's Disco for the Departed, the third book in his Dr. Siri Paiboun series, finds the spry, wry national coroner of Laos picking up a few new dance moves courtesy of a Cuban relief worker whose spirit takes up residence in the old doctor's body.
John Hodgman, Tuesday the 10th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
The Areas of My Expertise is the brilliant and uproarious #15 bestseller that is a lavish compendium of handy reference tables, fascinating trivia, and sage wisdom — all of it completely fabricated by the illuminating, prodigious imagination of The Daily Show's John Hodgman, certifiable genius.
Oct. 10 7:30 Calvin Trillin
Calvin Trillin to Open Literary Arts’ 2006-2007 Portland Arts & Lectures Series Due to an unforeseen change in events, Joan Didion has cancelled her fall travel and will not appear in Portland Arts & Lectures on October 5, 2006. Literary Arts is pleased to announce that Ms. Didion’s friend and colleague Calvin Trillin will commence the 2006-2007 Portland Arts & Lectures series. Calvin Trillin is a longtime contributor to The New Yorker and the “deadline poet” for The Nation, where he writes a column of comic verse about contemporary politics. He is perhaps best known for his writing about food and American regional cuisine, collected in The Tummy Trilogy (1994). His forthcoming memoir, About Alice, follows his recent New Yorker article, “Alice, Off the Page.” In 1984, Trillin kicked off the inaugural Portland Arts & Lectures season. Visiting in 1989, he praised the Northwest as “everybody’s favorite region.”
Portland Arts & Lectures is a program of Literary Arts, a statewide, nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the importance of language as a means to express, explore and experience the world in which we live. The programs of Literary Arts are: Oregon Book Awards, Oregon Literary Fellowships, Portland Arts & Lectures, Poetry Downtown, Poetry in Motion®, Writers in the Schools and Delve: Readers' Seminars. For more information, please call Literary Arts at 503.227.2583 or visit www.literary-arts.org.
Oct. 10 7:30, Looking Glass Bookstore, 318 SW Taylor St. Portland
Willa Schneberg will be reading from Storytelling in Cambodia, Calyx Books - a moving and image-rich cycle of linked poems that journeys from Cambodia’s mythic times to the killing fields to the U.N. presence during the first free elections. It bears witness to the plight of the Cambodian people and to all who have endured holocausts. It is truly a beautiful and heart-wrenching collection. Also reading: Angie Chuang
Wednesday, 11th
Michael Lewis in conversation with Rob Neyer Wednesday the 11th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside. In The Blind Side Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball, delivers a multidimensional story that traces the upbringing of a young boy who will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League, all through the lens of sports and his community of support. ESPN's Rob Neyer joins Lewis for this event.
Anna Deavere Smith: The author, playwright, and professor speaks on the book Snapshots: Glimpses of America in Change, 7:30 pm, Voices Lecture Series, First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park Ave, $55 tickets, 243-3440.
Jefferson Davis discusses the book Weird Hauntings, 7 pm, Barnes & Noble, Clackamas Town Center, 12000 SE 82nd Ave.
Carleen Cross presents her book Fleeing Fundamentalism at 7 pm, Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway.
Jude Siegel presents A Pacific Northwest Nature Sketchbook. Location: Annie Bloom's October 11, 2006 7:30 PMDescription: Keeping an illustrated nature sketchbook can be eye opening, and anyone can do it, at home or while traveling. This step-by-step guide to painting scenes of nature offers dozens of practical tips for combining watercolor and ink to create pages rich in personal meaning. Exercises include warming up, making thumbnail sketches, choosing a manageable subject, changing perspective, seeing patterns, creating depth and distance, and using color. Lavishly illustrated with more than 140 of the author's original watercolors of Oregon and Washington.
Thursday, 12th
Spider Robinson, Thursday the 12th, 7:00PM Powell's Books in Beaverton
A never-before-published masterpiece from science fiction grandmaster Robert A. Heinlein, completed by Hugo- and Nebula-winning author Spider Robinson, Variable Star depicts a cosmic cataclysm so devastating it would take all of humanity's strength and ingenuity just to survive.
Thursday, October 12, 2006 7:30 PM
Emily Wu and Larry Engelmann present Feather in the Storm. Location: Annie Bloom'sDescription: Feather in the Storm: A Childhood Lost in Chaos is the powerful story of a child (Emily Wu) caught up in an historical upheaval whose forces are beyond her control has a universal appeal as it sweeps you up with its profound and passionate emotions.
Susan E. Frost signs copies of her book, Portland, Oregon, 4 pm, Advance Camera, 8124 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway.
Michael Meade: The noted author and storyteller discusses his book A Poetics of Peace, 7 pm, The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave.
Deadly Diversions Mystery Book Group Thursday the 12th, 7:00PM Powell's Books in Beaverton This month our group meets to discuss The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill. New members to the group are always welcome.
Jane Poynter Thursday the 12th, 7:30PM Powell's Books on Hawthorne
In The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes inside Biosphere 2, Jane Poynter gives us the dirt on what really happened from an insider's perspective: food became scarce, oxygen levels dropped, people were hungry all the time, factions were formed, and she lost part of a finger in a threshing accident.
Spider Robinson: The author discusses his book Variable Star, a work he completed from Robert A. Heinlein's outline, 7 pm, Powell's Books Cascade Plaza, 8725 SW Cascade Plaza, Beaverton.
Oct. 12 5:30, Pacific NW Booksellers Association, Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Portland. Willa Schneberg will be reading from Storytelling in Cambodia, Calyx Books - a moving and image-rich cycle of linked poems that journeys from Cambodia’s mythic times to the killing fields to the U.N. presence during the first free elections. It bears witness to the plight of the Cambodian people and to all who have endured holocausts. It is truly a beautiful and heart-wrenching collection
Friday, 13th
A Very Unfortunate Event: Lemony Snicket Release Party Friday the 13th, 2:00PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside. All good things must come to an end — and fortunately, so must all terrible things. Hence, Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events comes to a long-awaited close with the thirteenth volume, titled The End. To celebrate our freedom from these oppressive little books, we encourage kids to dress up in their least favorite costumes, play wretched games, and attempt to win prizes that probably ought not to be discussed in civilized company. We promise you a disastrous time. Don't come — you'll be sorry if you do.
Lt. Col. Jay Kopelman, with his dog, discusses his book From Baghdad, With Love, 7 pm, Borders Gresham, 687 NW 12th St., Gresham.
Maureen McQueery reads from her book Wolfproof, 7 pm, Borders Vancouver, 811 SE 160th Ave., Vancouver.
Graham Salisbury: The Portland-area author reads from his book House of the Red Fish, 7 pm borders Bridgeport Village, 7227 SW Bridgeport Rd., Tigard.
Obert Skye: The author reads from his book Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret, 7 pm, Borders Beaverton, 2605 SW Cedar Hills Blvd.; 1 pm Saturday at Borders Portland, 708 SW Third Ave, and 4 pm, Saturday, Borders Gresham, 687 NW 12th, Gresham.
Melanie Rawn & Kate Elliott Friday the 13th, 7:00PM Powell's Books in Beaverton
Melanie Rawn's Spellbinder brings to vivid life a New York City that has a small, discrete population of witches and wizards who live and love and go dancing just like everyone else. Kate Elliott's Spirit Gate is a haunting fantasy adventure of people swept up by the chaos of war, from the bestselling author of The Crown of Stars.
Laila Lalami Friday the 13th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
In this "unexpected and enthralling read from a promising new voice,” Lalami evokes the grit and enduring grace that is modern Morocco. Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits begins as four Moroccans illegally cross the Strait of Gibraltar in an inflatable boat headed for Spain. What has driven them to risk their lives?
Oct. 13-15 Retreat, Caldera Arts Retreat, Central Oregon near Sisters
CREATIVE NONFICTION With Judith BarringtonThis workshop will focus on the ways you transform life experiences into literature, addressing the memoir and the personal essay in particular. We will divide our time between discussion of some major issues of craft and ethics that come up when writing personal stories, and writing exercises that may lead to longer pieces you can continue after the workshop. We will focus on generating new writing (which may fit into a larger project if you are already working on a story).There will be a visit from guest editor, Ruth Gundle, with a session on editing narrative prose.Judith will give a reading from her work on the Saturday at 5 pm at Caldera, open to workshop participants and to the public.Friday night dinner is provided; shared accommodation is in the residency's A-frame cabins. Judith Barrington is the author of three volumes of poetry, most recently Horses and the Human Soul (Story Line Press, 2004). Lifesaving: A Memoir, was the 2000 winner of the Lambda Book Award and finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award. Recently featured on NPR in Garrison Keillor's "Writer's Almanac", she has won many prizes for both poetry and creative nonfiction, and teaches at workshops across the U.S. and in Britain.For more information, cost, and registration: Linda Johnson: 503.937.7877 or linda.johnson@wk.com http://www.calderaarts.org/
Saturday, 14th
Tess Gallagher: The poet reads from her new collection Dear Ghosts, 2 pm, Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway.
Heather C. Flores discusses her book Food Not Lawns, 7 pm, St. Johns Booksellers, 8622 N. Lombard St.
Lawson Fusao Inada, Oregon's Poet Laureate, reads poetry with jazz accompaniment by Larry Nobori, Rick Homer, Andre St. James, and Gordon Lee, 8 pm, the Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., $20.
Kirby Larson reads from her book, Hattie Big Sky, 2 pm, Borders Beaverton, 2605 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beverton.
Jim LaMarche reads from his book, Up, 2 pm, Barnes & Noble Clackamas Town Center, 12000 SE 82nd Ave.
The Plays of Pulitzer Prize Winner Wendy Wasserstein at Profile Theatre. Get Your Tickets Now (Go to www.profiletheatre.org). The complete works of American playwright Wendy Wasserstein, who died earlier this year at the age of 56, will be produced at Profile Theatre in SE Portland this season, starting with "An American Daughter" opening on October 14 and running through November 12. Four plays will be fully staged and the other three will be offered as staged readings. Wasserstein deals with such issues as striking a balance between work and family with wit and honesty. In its tenth anniversary season, Profile Theatre, under the artistic direction of Jane Unger, provides first-class acting in a very intimate setting.The first play, "An American Daughter," deals with media scrutiny of a female candidate for Surgeon General. Given the Hillary Factor, this play could not be more timely. The next, "The Heidi Chronicles," won the Pulitzer and follows art historian Heidi Holland through two decades of personal change and growth as women question their roles in society and negotiate new identities.These plays are perfect to generate discussion about women's roles in society, women and politics, Jewish women in a WASP world, strengths and weaknesses of all-women educational institutions, as well as other topics, including social class (one play is entitled "Old Money"). The Profile Theatre is the only theatre in Portland to offer the works of a single playwright each theatre season. For more information and to buy tickets, go to: www.profiletheatre.org
Sunday, 15th
Two Glimpses of Iran Sunday the 15th, 1:00PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Meghan Nuttall Sayres and Susan Fletcher present from their new young adult novels, both inspired by Persian history, culture, and landscape. In Alphabet of Dreams, Fletcher returns to ancient Persia with a spellbinding tale that re-imagines the wonder and spirit of a lost age. In Anahita's Woven Riddle, Sayres weaves a richly detailed and enchanting debut novel, set in 20th-century Persia, that explores the art of weaving, the rhythms of nomadic life, and the beauty of the Muslim faith. Sayers and Fletcher traveled to Iran to research their novels; they'll show slides, talk about their visits to Iran, and answer questions.
Conservatize Me. Sunday the 15th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
In the tradition of Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me, Conservatize Me: How I Tried to Become a Righty with the Help of Richard Nixon, Sean Hannity, Toby Keith, and Beef Jerky recounts how liberal John Moe submerged himself in the conservative culture, in an eye-opening look at the perilous state of American politics.
Monday, 16th
Life, Death and Bialys. Monday the 16th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
The true story of a dying father and his estranged son bonding over a baking class, Dylan Schaffer's Life, Death and Bialys is a wonderful, irreverent account of letting go of the past, learning how to forgive, and how making a decent baguette is harder than it looks.
No Plot? No Problem! Monday the 16th, 7:30PM Powell's Books on Hawthorne
In Chris Baty's No Plot? No Problem! novel-writing kit, the founder of National Novel Writing Month (which is conducted each November) reveals the secrets to writing a complete novel in only 30 days. This handbook is the ultimate guide for would-be writers — or those with writer's block — to cultivate their creative selves.
Monday, Broadway Books, October 16 * 7 pm - We welcome to the store Kit Bakke, author of the new "bio-memoir" Miss Alcott's E-mail: Yours for Reforms of All Kinds. Shortly after 9/11, in an attempt to find answers to some of life's large questions, Bakke sent an e-mail to Louisa May Alcott, one of her childhood heroines. What she learns from her "correspondence" is to be persistent in the face of difficulties, and that ideas really do matter: "if you let your brain be filled with trash, you're wasting the best part of yourself Respect your own brain and use it for important things And that leads to being courageous with our ideas and being willing to think independently." Come learn more about Louisa May Alcott and her relevance in today's world.
Tuesday, 17th
Andy Stern, Tuesday the 17th, 12:00PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
In A Country That Works Andy Stern, the maverick leader of the fastest-growing union in the United States, proposes a revolutionary paradigm for America and labor, in which workers and management and all Americans can thrive in the global economy.
Andy Summers. Tuesday the 17th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Andy Summers is best known as the guitar player for the Police, one of the best-loved and most enduring bands of the 1980s. But he was also part of the British rock scene of the '60s and '70s — friends, in fact, with icons like Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Burdon of the Animals. In his new memoir One Train Later, Summers details growing up in 1950s England; discovering the guitar, jazz, and Zen Buddhism; rambling around the London and Hollywood drug scenes of the '70s; and playing with the Police.
The Story of American Beer, Tuesday the 17th, 7:30PM Powell's Books on Hawthorne
In the first-ever history of American beer, Ambitious Brew, Maureen Ogle tells its epic story, from the immigrants who invented it to the upstart microbrewers who revived it.
Wednesday, 18th
Write Time, Wednesday the 18th, 7:00PM Powell's Books in Beaverton
This writing critique group meets every other Wednesday to exchange and discuss their work. New members to the group are always welcome.
David Callahan, Wednesday the 18th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
In The Moral Center, his forceful follow-up to The Cheating Culture, David Callahan argues that the problems for most Americans are issues that neither party is addressing: the selfishness that is careening out of control, the effect of a violent and consumerist culture on children, and the lack of a greater purpose.
Thursday, 19th
Michael Cox Thursday the 19th, 7:30PM Powell's Books on Hawthorne
Michael Cox's The Meaning of Night combines the atmosphere of Bleak House, the sensuous thrill of Perfume, and the mystery of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell in a story of murder, deceit, love, and revenge in Victorian England.
Thursday, October 19, 2006 7:30 PM, Jon Katz presents A Good Dog. Location: Annie Bloom'sDescription: In this gripping and deeply touching book, bestselling author Jon Katz tells the story of Orson: a beautiful border collie–intense, smart, crazy, and unforgettable. A Good Dog is a book to savor. Just as Orson was the author’s lifetime dog, his story is a lifetime treasure – poignant, timeless, and powerful.
Hampton Sides, Thursday the 19th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
In Blood and Thunder, Hampton Sides presents the magnificent history of how the West was really won — a sweeping tale of shame and glory that brings the history of the American conquest of the West to ringing life.
Friday 20th
Elizabeth George, Friday the 20th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
In her compelling new mystery, What Came before He Shot Her, Elizabeth George explores the unforgettable events leading up to a murder.
Saturday, 21st
Oct. 21 1-2:30, Central Branch, Multnomah Co. Library 801 SW 10th, Portland OR, 97205
Multnomah County Library present Writers Talking, a monthly program of readings from northwest authors. Where imagination meets the world: writers and their research How does research fit into our narratives, enriching them with texture and authenticity? How, when and where do we begin? Which questions — architectural styles? train schedules? exchange rates? weather? — need answers and which can we safely invent? In this panel, Portland writers Robin Cody, Martha Gies and Robin Schauffler talk about the role of research in their past and current work. (http://www.multcolib.org/events/writers.html)
Sunday, 22nd
The Big Book of Girl Stuff, Sunday the 22nd, 1:00PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Bart King's The Big Book of Girl Stuff is packed with amazing facts, activities, and everything you need to know about how cool it is to be a girl, including: how to make a friendship bracelet; why boys smell so bad; how to shop; and much more!
Monday, 23rd
Oregon Writers Colony Presents Dianna Rodgers Monday the 23rd, 7:00PM Powell's Books in Beaverton Life coach and counselor Dianna Rodgers joins Oregon Writers Colony this month for a presentation for writers to help them both define and achieve their goals. She has presented at state, national, and international conferences. Rodgers fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies, and she's editing a soon-to-be released anthology titled Ghosts at the Coast.
Jacob Hacker, Monday the 23rd, 7:30PM Powell's Books on Hawthorne
America's leaders say the economy is strong and getting stronger. But ordinary Americans aren't buying it. In The Great Risk Shift, Jacob S. Hacker lays bare this unsettling new economic climate, showing how it has come about, what it is doing to our families, and how we can fight back.
William Kittredge, Monday the 23rd, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Following his heralded memoir A Hole in the Sky, The Willow Field — an epic first novel that stretches over the twentieth century, from the settlers, cowboys, and gamblers who opened up this country to the landholders and politicians who ran it — ratifies William Kittredge's standing as a leading writer of the American West.
Tuesday, 24th
Richard Ford, Tuesday the 24th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
The Lay of the Land, Richard Ford's first novel in over a decade, continues the story cycle begun in his award-winning The Sportswriter. In the fall of 2000, with the presidential election still hanging in the balance, Thanksgiving looms before Frank Bascombe with all the perils of a post-nuclear family get-together.
Tuesday, Broadway Books, October 24 * 7 pm - Local author Lee Montgomery is the editorial director of Tin House Books and the executive editor of Tin House magazine. Her family, the Montgomerys of Framingham, Massachusetts, are the last of a dying breed - New England WASPs who effortlessly combine repression, flamboyant eccentricity, and alcoholism. Fragmented by drink and dysfunction, the family has avoided assembling under one roof for more than a decade. But when Big Dad, the patriarch, is diagnosed with stomach cancer, the siblings all return to their childhood home. The Things Between Us is Montgomery's alternately wrenching and riotous story of her family reuniting as one of their own is dying, evoking the often unspoken bonds between family members - bonds made of memory, love, and disappointment.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006 5:00 PM, join Rob Neyer for Game 3 of the World Series! Location: O'Connor's AnnexDescription: Join Rob Neyer, espn.com analyst and author of The Big Book of Baseball Bloopers, for Game 3 of the 2006 Major League Baseball World Series. Come cheer like a kid and second guess with an expert. What better way to enjoy America’s pastime than with a room full of baseball fanatics? The event will begin just before the start of the game, so check back for the exact time. Also, thanks to O'Connors Restaurant for the use of their Annex ... and their big screen TV!
Wednesday 25th
Classics Book Group, Wednesday the 25th, 7:00PM Powell's Books in Beaverton
This month our group meets to discuss Edgar Allen Poe's short stories. New members to the group are always welcome.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:00 PM, GEORGE WRIGHT. Location: Twenty-Third Avenue Books. Description: Tillamook 1952 -On August 24, 1933, Verlin Victory Lundigun, 32, catches a piece of pitch-fired fl... Tillamook 1952 -On August 24, 1933, Verlin Victory Lundigun, 32, catches a piece of pitch-fired flaming tree trunk with his face. He is one warrior among thousands fighting the fiercest forest fire in U.S. history—the infamous Tillamook Burn. Verlin lives that day, but nine months later he is dead from a gunshot. Eighteen years later a nephew is driven to find out why and how his uncle died.
Ed Viesturs, Wednesday the 25th, 7:00PM Bagdad Theater
As riveting as Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, Ed Viesturs's No Shortcuts to the Top is a gripping and triumphant memoir that follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time. Please note: This free event takes place at the Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Seating is limited to first come, first served.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:30 PM, Heather Sharfeddin presents Mineral Spirits. Location: Annie Bloom's. Description: Mineral Spirits is a contemporary western, a murder mystery set in Montana's Mineral County, which stretches narrow and remote along the Idaho border. Kip Edelson is the county's new sheriff. Pine trees outnumber people one-million to one there, but, beneath the idyllic-seeming surface of this scenic paradise, Edelson encounters drug-dealing, incest, and grinding poverty, as well as murder.
Thursday, 26th
The “Last Gasp” Open Mic Reading at Noon, CCC, Literary Arts Center (RR 220).
Melissa Fay Greene, Thursday the 26th, 7:30PM Powell's Books on Hawthorne
There Is No Me without You is the story of Haregewoin Tefarra, a middle-aged Ethiopian woman of modest means whose home has become a refuge for hundreds of children orphaned by AIDS. Melissa Fay Greene, author of Praying for Sheetrock, gives us an astonishing portrait of a woman fighting a continent-wide epidemic.
Thursday, October 26, 2006 7:30 PM, Amy Scheibe presents What Do You Do All Day? Location: Annie Bloom's. Description: Bright, witty, and covered in homemade playdough, Jennifer Bradley has traded her fabulous job at a New York auction house for the life of a stay at home mom. For Jennifer, sanity itself is a treasure among the playground set, given the pitfalls: If it's not the nasty mother-in-law, who insists that her precious grandchildren be exposed to the dubious advantages of the Upper East Side, it's her husband, Thom, who announces he'll be on the road to Singapore for the next who-knows-how-long. What Do You Do All Day? is a sparkling story of love, lust, and the joys of modern motherhood.
Kate Atkinson, Thursday the 26th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
One Good Turn is a brilliant new thriller from Kate Atkinson, author of 2005's breakout favorite Case Histories, again featuring the irresistibly reluctant detective Jackson Brodie.
Thursday, October 26, 2006 7:00 PM, GERARD DONOVAN. Location: Twenty-Third Avenue Books. Description: Julius Winsome... From the author of "Schopenhauer's Telescope" comes a beautiful and haunting novel of vengeance, literature, love, isolation, and man's tenuous grasp on reason.
MAILE MELOY, Thursday, October 26, 8 p.m.Reed College Psychology Auditorium.
Maile Meloy was born in Helena, Montana. Her most recent novel is A Family Daughter. Her short stories have been published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review, and her first story collection, Half in Love, received the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the John C. Zacharis Award from Ploughshares, and the PEN/Malamud Award. Her first novel, Liars and Saints, was shortlisted for England’s 2005 Orange Prize. She has also received The Paris Review’s Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in California.
Friday, 27th
Richard Dawkins, Friday the 27th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
In The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins (recently called "Darwin's Rottweiler" by Discover magazine for his fierce defense of evolution) turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes.
Saturday, 28th
R. A. Salvatore, Saturday the 28th, 7:00PM Powell's Books in Beaverton
Road of the Patriarch, the final title in the Sellswords series from New York Times bestselling author R.A. Salvatore, continues the escapades of Entreri and Jarlaxle, as they encounter the wrath of an angry paladin king in the dangerous Bloodstone Lands.
Sunday, 29th
Sunday, October 29 at Marylhurst University, 3 p.m. - 4 p.m. Voices in the Wind: Poet, Composers and Performers in Collaboration. Dr. John Paul, department chair of Music, Judith Barrington, poet. Voices in the Wind features the poetry of Judith Barrington set to music by Marylhurst composers and will be performed by Marylhurst voice faculty in a unique recital/presentation. Poets, composers, and performers will be on hand to discuss the intimate collaboration between the literary and musical arts that is the essence of song.
Monday, 30th
Deepak Chopra, Monday the 30th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Deepak Chopra has touched millions of readers by demystifying our deepest spiritual concerns while retaining their poetry and wonder. Now he turns to the most profound mystery: What happens after we die? In Life after Death: The Burden of Proof, Deepak Chopra marries science and wisdom to provide a map of the afterlife.
Monday, Broadway Books, October 30 * 7 pm - We love dogs. We also love books about dogs. On this evening, we will welcome two authors of books for young adults who have written books about young girls and dogs. Karen Karbo, whose new novel is called Minerva Clark Goes to the Dogs (Minerva Clark rocks. Seriously.), will be joined by Christine Fletcher, a veterinarian whose novel, Tallulah Falls, is about a young girl in trouble and the dying dog who helps her. Please join us this evening - and bring your well-behaved, on-a-leash dog. We promise edible treats for all humans and canines in attendance!
Tuesday, 31st
Halloween with Amy Sedaris, Tuesday the 31st, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
I Like You: Hospitality under the Influence is Amy Sedaris's blisteringly funny take on entertaining. Color photos and enlightening sidebars on everything it takes to pull off a party with extraordinary flair make this volume an entertaining book from one of the country's most delightfully unconventional hostesses.
November 2006
Wednesday, 1st
Thursday, 2nd
DAVID OATES, DAVID BRAGDON (President of Metro regional council), & ANA MARIA SPAGNA. Location: Twenty-Third Avenue Books November 2, 2006 7:00 PMDescription: City Limits: Walking Portland's Boundary, Now Go Home: Wilderness, Belonging, and the Crosscut Saw... Oates: Reflections on the politics and culture of place, inspired by the author's walk along the entirety of Portland, Oregon's 260+ mile Urban Growth Boundary, through neighborhoods, forests, mountain trails, vineyards, and wide-open wheat fields. Spagna: How did a quintessential California girl end up earning her living in the Pacific Northwest with a crosscut saw? In "Now Go Home, Spagna reflects on the journey that took her from a childhood in the suburbs of LA to a trail crew in Washington's North Cascades, where she falls in love with a place and, unexpectedly, with a woman.
Dr. Robert Bass of OIT on Renewable Energy, Thursday Nov. 2, CCC, 11:00, LAC (RR 220).
The Nature of Words, Central Oregon's Premier Literary Event, November 2-5, 2006. A long weekend of readings, workshops, dinner and panel discussion and an open mike session. Guest Authors: David Guterson, James Galvin, Alexandra Fuller, Craig Lesley, Robert Michael Pyle, Linda Hussa, Lawson Inada, Robert Wrigley. All events are held in Bend, Oregon. Reading, Workshop and Dinner/Panel Discussion tickets can be purchased from The Ticket Mill, Shops at The Old Mill, Phone: 541.318.5457. Reading tickets only can be purchased from the Tower Theatre, www.towertheatre.org , Phone 541.317.0700.
Friday, 3rd
Saturday, 4th
Sunday, 5th
Monday, 6th
Tuesday, 7th
Reading from the anthology Long Journey: Contemporary Northwest Poets. Powell's Downtown, NW 10th & Burnside, Tuesday, November 7, 7:30pm.Portland readers: Judith Barrington, James Grabill, Paulann Petersen, Vern Rutsala, Carlos Reyes, Lisa M. Steinman, & Sandra Stone.
Wednesday, 8th
November 8 Readings by Oregon Book Awards Finalists 6:30 p.m., Japanese Garden (611 SW Kingston Avenue, Portland) Hosted by Portland Monthly and author Chelsea Cain Tickets: $10 at 503.222.5144 x133
Thursday, 9th
Alison Heimowitz, CCC Environmental Learning Center, on the Environment and Water, 11:00, LAC (RR 220).
Thursday, November 9, 2006 7:00 PM, JOYCE MAYNARD. Location: Twenty-Third Avenue Books. Description: Internal Combustion: The Story of a Marriage and a Murder in the Motor City... On Mother's Day night, 2004, award-winning fourth grade teacher Nancy Seaman left the Tudor home she shared with her husband of thirty two years in the gated community of Farmington Hills, near Detroit, Michigan, and drove in a driving rain storm to Home Depot, to purchase a hatchet. Three days later, police discovered the mutilated body of Bob Seaman - a successful auto industry engineer, softball coach and passionate collector of vintage Mustangs - in the back of the family's Ford Explorer. As in Joyce Maynard's previous books - including "To Die For," based on a true crime, and her best selling memoir, "At Home in the World" - Joyce Maynard's themes here involve family secrets, the deep fissures that lie below the surface of the glittering exteriors, and the deep, potentially fatal, fissures in the American Dream.
ILYA KAMINSKY, Thursday, November 9, 8 p.m.Reed College Psychology Auditorium.
Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa, former Soviet Union in 1977, and arrived to the United States in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the American government. Ilya is the author of Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004) which won the Whiting Writer's Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Metcalf Award, the Dorset Prize, the Ruth Lilly Fellowship given annually by Poetry magazine. Dancing In Odessa was also named Best Poetry Book of the Year 2004 by ForeWord Magazine.
Friday, 10th
Saturday, 11th
Sunday, 12th
Nov. 12 7:30, New American Art Union, 922 SE Ankeny Street, Portland
The Spare Room presents readings with Elizabeth Arnold & Patrick Hartigan $5.00 donation suggested. For more info please see www.flim.com/spareroom or contact spareroom@flim.com
Monday, 13th
Tuesday, 14th
Wednesday, 15th
November 15 Readings by Oregon Book Awards Finalists 6:30 p.m., Japanese Garden (611 SW Kingston Avenue, Portland) Hosted by Portland Monthly and author Marc Acito Tickets: $10 at 503.222.5144 x133
Thursday, 16th
Thursday, November 16, 2006 7:00 PM, KELLY BRAFFET. Location: Twenty-Third Avenue Books. Description: Last Seen Leaving... Twenty-something drifter Miranda crashes her car late at night on a lonely highway and is picked up by a passing stranger who soon reveals himself to be more sinister than at first glance--he's rumored to be a serial killer stalking young women. This novel explores the often ambiguous nature of danger and the dark secrets kept to protect loved ones.
TAYARI JONES, Thursday, November 16, 8 p.m.Reed College Psychology Auditorium
Tayari Jones is the author of the novels Leaving Atlanta and The Untelling, which were awarded the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the Lillian C. Smith Award (respectively). Jones was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia where she spent most of her childhood with the exception of the one year she and her family spent in Nigeria, West Africa. A graduate of Spelman College, The University of Iowa, and Arizona State University, she has recently served as the Jenny McKean Moore Writer in Residence at George Washington University. In the fall of 2007, Jones began teaching as an Assistant Professor in the MFA program at Rutgers University, Newark campus.
Reading from the anthology Long Journey: Contemporary Northwest Poets. Broadway Books, NE 17th & Broadway, Tuesday, November 16, 7pm. Portland readers: Jan Lee Ande, Michele Glazer, Kathleen Halme III, Jerry Harp, Floyd Skloot, Mary Szybist, Ursula K. Le Guin
Friday, 17th
Saturday, 18th
Nov. 18 1-2:30, Central Branch, Multnomah Co. Library 801 SW 10th, Portland OR, 97205
Multnomah Co. Library presents Writers Talking, a monthly program of readings from northwest authors. Laila Lalami is a writer, blogger and political activist. She provides commentary, book reviews and information about the literary scene on her blog Moorishgirl.com. She will read from her acclaimed novel, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits (http://www.multcolib.org/events/writers.html)
Bart King presents The Big Book of Girl Stuff. Location: Annie Bloom's Saturday, November 18, 2006 3:00 PM. Description: The Big Book of Girl Stuff shares everything a girl needs to know - from sleepovers to diaries to makeup to boys to shopping, and everything in between! It's the ultimate guide to unlocking the delightful mysteries of being a girl. Dozens of girls, young women, teachers, and mothers collaborated on this book to make it the most comprehensive guide to being a girl that has ever existed! Perfect for pre-teen, 'tween, and teenage girls, The Big Book of Girl Stuff shares inspiration, empowerment, and some seriously silly laughs just when girls need it the most! It's filled with information, activities, quotes, and games, as well as lists for favorite books, movies, and music.
Sunday, 19th
Monday, 20th
Monday, November 20, 2006 7:30 PM, David Suzuki presents The Autobiography. Location: Multnomah Arts Center. Description: Annie Bloom's Books and the Northwest Earth Institute present an evening with David Suzuki. Tickets are $5 and are available at Annie Bloom's Books. Your ticket is redeemable towards the purchase of David Suzuki: The Autobiography. The event will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Multnomah Arts Center at 7688 SW Capitol Hwy (Mapquest). The first volume of David Suzuki’s autobiography, Metamorphosis, looked back at his life from 1986, when he was 50. In this eagerly awaited second installment, Suzuki, now 70, reflects on his entire life — and on his hopes for the future.
Tuesday, 21st
Wednesday, 22nd
Thursday, 23rd
Friday, 24th
Saturday, 25th
Sunday, 26th
Monday, 27th
Tuesday, 28th
Wednesday, 29th
Wednesday, November 29, 2006 7:30 PM, Susan Sokol Blosser presents At Home in the Vineyard. Location: Annie Bloom's. Description: This moving, evocative memoir, woven with lyrical descriptions of the sights and smells of vineyard life, tells the inspirational story of one woman's journey to success in an industry run mostly by men. At Home in the Vineyard, filled with colorful characters and unexpected experiences, brings a local rural community vividly alive as Oregon wine pioneer and industry icon Susan Sokol Blosser recounts how she fell in love with a vineyard, learned how to run it, and ultimately achieved her vision of producing Pinot Noirs to rival those of Burgundy.
Thursday, 30th
CCC’s “Last Gasp” Open Mic Reading, LAC (RR 220), noon Thursday the 30th.
December 1st
20th Annual Oregon Book Awards 7:30 p.m., Portland Art Museum (1119 SW Park Avenue, Portland) Tickets: $15 at www.literary-arts.org
Dec. 16 1-2:30
Central Branch, Multnomah Co. Library 801 SW 10th, Portland OR, 97205
Multnomah Co. Library presents Writers Talking, a monthly program of readings from northwest authors. Phillip Margolin A master of the thriller genre, Margolin has 11 books to his credit and every one of them has made The New York Times bestseller list. His new book, Proof Positive, promises to be equally popular with his large fan base.
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