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Learn Make Share: Bindfast Training

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland

In this Learn Make Share, folks will be guided through the steps to bind a book using our Bindfast machine. Everyone will have a chance to practice using the paper stack cutter to prepare pages and bind 2-3 books. ** This LMS is part of a monthly series of trainings for the Bindfast. Once trained, members are certified to bind their own books during listed Bindfast open hours with volunteer support. *Free for IPRC members taking the workshop as one of 3 annual Learn Make Shares *$5-15 sliding scale for nonmembers, or for members who have already taken their 3 annual workshop. Payment taken at front desk. Register Here 

$5 – $15

WITS Student Reading: Madison High School

Old School Coffee 8101 SE Division St. Suite 107, Portland

Listen to Madison High School students read the original creative pieces they wrote in the WITS residencies that took place in their classrooms. Free and open to all.

Free

Kate Milford

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton

Marzana and her best friend are bored. Even though they live in a notorious city where normal rules do not apply, nothing interesting ever happens to them. Nothing, that is, until Marzana’s parents are recruited to help solve an odd crime, and she realizes that this could be the excitement she’s been waiting for. She assembles a group of kid detectives with special skills and together, they explore hidden passageways, navigate architecture that changes overnight, and try to unravel the puzzle of who the kidnappers are. But will they beat the deadline for a ransom that’s impossible to pay? The Thief Knot (Clarion) is the new standalone middle reader mystery set in the world of the Greenglass House, from National Book Award nominee and Edgar…

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Poetry Reading: Emmett Wheatfall & John Sibley Williams

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland

Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland poets Emmett Wheatfall & John Sibley Williams. Emmett Wheatfall presents his latest poetry collection, Our Scarlet Blue Wounds. Wheatfall shows us how the roots of love grow deep in the soil of sacrifice. He illustrates the intensely complex relationship between idealism and realism. His poems hurt in just the right way. And it's no small feat opening one's own racial and cultural wounds for the world to see. It takes courage. It takes trust that a country will recognize itself, and its complicity, in those wounds. And Wheatfall trusts us to witness along with him. He proves himself ready and willing, even eager, to, as the titular poem in this collection demands, "build a new world" together. John Sibley Williams's latest…

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John Bruning

Powell's Books on Hawthorne 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland

In 1942, America's deadliest fighter pilot, or "ace of aces" – the legendary Eddie Rickenbacker – offered a bottle of bourbon to the first U.S. fighter pilot to break his record of 26 enemy planes shot down. Seizing on the challenge to motivate his men, General George Kenney promoted what they would come to call the "race of aces" as a way of boosting the spirits of his war-weary command. What developed was a wild three-year sprint for fame and glory, and the chance to be called America's greatest fighter pilot. Based on new research, John R. Bruning's Race of Aces (Hachette) tells the story of how five American pilots contended for personal glory in the Pacific while leading Kenney's resurgent air force against the…

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Carmen Maria Machado in Conversation With Lidia Yuknavitch

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland

In the Dream House (Graywolf) is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. And it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope, through which Machado examines the past from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. Machado…

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Readings: Unpublished Manuscripts

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland

In preparation and anticipation of National Unpublished Manuscripts Day, we’re hosting readings from authors who are either entirely unpublished through traditional channels or who have manuscripts that have been submitted to and rejected by traditional channels. At Rose City Book Pub, we are gate openers, not gate keepers. Please also join us at the Clark County Historical Museum and the Brautigan Library of Unpublished Manuscripts on Saturday, January 25th between 11 am and 4 pm for the main event. The Book Pub has partnered with the museum and the library to provide a series of speakers on different ways of being published in the modern world, writing workshops, and other readerly and writerly activiites.

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