LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.
For details regarding specific events please contact the organizers or venues. If you are an organizer or venue and would like to reach out to us please feel free to contact us or submit an event using our submission form. We’d love to hear from you!
- This event has passed.
True Crime Book Club (Remote)
January 20, 2021 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
$15 – $25TO ATTEND:
1) Purchase the book club book to support our shop. If you already own the book you may purchase a gift certificate or sponsor a stack for $15 or $25 dollars depending on if the book club book is paperback or hardcover.
2) Email us after your purchase that you plan on attending and we’ll provide the password.
The True Crime Book Club is led by the true crime aficionado Rachel Newton Cumley. We would like to extend an invitation to all of our true crime enthusiasts. Our book discussions aim to bring people together to talk about books in a safe and inviting atmosphere.
Join us on Wednesday January 20th at 6:30pm for True Crime Book Club. This month’s pick is The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial by Maggie Nelson.
Late in 2004, Maggie Nelson was looking forward to the publication of her book Jane: A Murder, a narrative in verse about the life and death of her aunt, who had been murdered thirty-five years before. The case remained unsolved, but Jane was assumed to have been the victim of an infamous serial killer in Michigan in 1969.
Then, one November afternoon, Nelson received a call from her mother, who announced that the case had been reopened; a new suspect would be arrested and tried on the basis of a DNA match. Over the months that followed, Nelson found herself attending the trial with her mother and reflecting anew on the aura of dread and fear that hung over her family and childhood–an aura that derived not only from the terrible facts of her aunt’s murder but also from her own complicated journey through sisterhood, daughterhood, and girlhood.
The Red Parts is a memoir, an account of a trial, and a provocative essay that interrogates the American obsession with violence and missing white women, and that scrupulously explores the nature of grief, justice, and empathy.
REMOTE INSTRUCTIONS
Join online!
https://zoom.us/j/306490858
Meeting ID: 306 490 858
OR
Join by phone
(301) 715-8592
PAST BOOK CLUB PICKS
If You Tell by Gregg Olsen
Devil in a White City by Erik Larson
The Five by Hallie Rubenhold
American Predator by Maureen Callahan
Devil’s Knot by Mara Leveritt
Columbine by Dave Cullen
American Kingpin by Nick Bilton
The Killer Across the Table by John Douglas
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
Furious Hours by Casey Cep