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LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.
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Please join us for readings of original works of fiction by senior students from Pauls Toutonghi’s Fiction Writing 3 course. Refreshments will be provided. We look forward to seeing you there!
Niche Book Club Rebecca By Daphne du Maurier Join us on Tuesday, April 30 at 6:30 pm for our latest installment of Niche Book Club: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. Book Description from the British Library: Rebecca is the most famous of Daphne du Maurier’s novels. Published in 1938, it has never gone out of print and is one of the great international bestsellers. Having destroyed her first attempt at the novel, du Maurier returned to writing it whilst in Egypt, where she and her soldier husband were stationed in Alexandria. Despite being composed in this alien situation, Rebecca is widely regarded as the Cornish novel, and is evidently the product of du Maurier’s acute homesickness and discomfort in her role as dutiful army wife.…
In actor Henry Thomas’s debut fantasy novel, The Window and the Mirror (Rare Bird), a captured soldier must escort a mysterious girl to a distant city to broker peace between two peoples poised on the brink of war. Left to die in a deep chasm, his commander stumbles upon a dark and powerful secret: how to harness the energy of men’s souls and bend them to his will. Is this the secret that Goblinkind has been hiding from the race of men? For Mage Imperator Rhael Lord Uhlmet, the lure of such power is irresistible, even if he must start a war to attain it.
Based on real events, Miriam Toews’s Women Talking (Bloomsbury) is the story of eight women in a remote Mennonite colony who face an agonizing decision in the aftermath of a series of unspeakable sexual crimes. Toews’s masterful new novel, told through the “minutes” of the women’s all-female symposium, uses wry, politically engaged humor to relate this tale of women claiming their own power to decide. Toews will be joined in conversation by Leni Zumas, author of Red Clocks.