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Julia Alvarez in Conversation With Samantha Mabry

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Afterlife (Algonquin Books) is the first adult novel in almost 15 years by Julia Alvarez, the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents. "A stunning work of art that reminds readers Alvarez is, and always has been, in a class of her own." — Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Poet X Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then more jolts: her bighearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find…

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Free

Summer 2020 Online: Starting the Novel

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Dive in to the first draft of your novel with confidence, excitement, and curiosity, armed with tools to deal with doubt and writers block. This three week online class will include writing exercises, feedback and a discussion of the variety of ways to begin a novel. July 9 - 23, 2020 Thursdays, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. (3 sessions) online via Zoom Cari Luna Cari Luna is the author of The Revolution of Every Day, which won the Oregon Book Award for Fiction. A fellow of Yaddo and Ragdale, her writing has appeared in Guernica, Salon, Jacobin, Electric Literature, Catapult, The Rumpus, PANK, and elsewhere.

$140

Delve Readers Seminar Online: Milan Kundera

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” Explore Czech writer Kundera alongside some of his inspirations. We will begin with his most famous work, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, reading both the original text and exploring major influences on this work, through excerpts from Kafka and Nietzsche. We will also read his novel Immortality and short story collection Laughable Loves. We will discuss what is distinctive about Kundera’s style, such as his lyrical writing and preoccupation with philosophical themes. Of course, no discussion on Kundera would be complete without a discussion surrounding the thematic elements of totalitarianism and revolution. Reading List: The Unbearable Lightness of Being Immortality Laughable Loves Excerpts from Nietzsche and Kafka (guide will provide PDFs to…

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$230

Kids’ Storytime With Stephanie Campisi

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Today, author Stephanie Campisi joins us to read from her new picture book, Five Sisters (Familius), illustrated by Madalina Andronic. When a great white oak gifts an old man a branch imbued with magic, he carves five wooden dolls “each smaller than the last.” The wooden dolls take on a life of their own as they frolic from one season to the next bringing the old man and his wife a joy they had always longed for. Beautiful verse and stunning, traditional illustrations full of woodland creatures and playfully painted matryoshka dolls explore a tale of heartache, hope, and love. Register for the Zoom event  /  Buy the Book

Free

Fantasy Book Club (Remote)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

July 14th will be a Fantasy Pick. Join us on Tuesday July 14th at 6pm for our Books Around the Corner Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club. We will discuss Circe by Madeline Miller. About the book: In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Due to the time and effort we put into organizing our book clubs if you choose to purchase the book elsewhere, already own it,…

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Free

Reading is Resistance: July Book Club: Middle Reader

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join us to discuss How to Make Friends with the Sea (our July focus book for middle readers). We will be diving into the discussion questions provided and explore the book themes. Sign up to join our conversation!

Free

Carlos Fonseca in Conversation With Megan McDowell

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

From Carlos Fonseca, author of Colonel Lágrimas, comes Natural History (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a dazzling, kaleidoscopic epic of art, politics, and hidden realities. Just before the dawn of the new millennium, a curator at a New Jersey museum of natural history receives an unusual invitation from a celebrated fashion designer. She shares the curator's fascination with the hidden forms of the animal kingdom — with camouflage and subterfuge — and she proposes that they collaborate on an exhibition, the form of which itself remains largely obscure, even as they enter into a strange relationship marked by evasion and elision. Seven years later, after the death of the designer, the curator recovers the archive of their never-completed project. During a long night of insomnia, he…

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Free

Delve Readers Seminar Online: The Ethics of Ambiguity and The Metamorphosis

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

In her book The Ethics of Ambiguity, the philosopher Simone de Beauvoir asks us to consider what it means to exercise individual freedom and to live in community with others. Where does our individual freedom begin and end? Simone de Beauvoir claims that our personal freedom can be manifest only when we “will others free.” How do we create a life where we protect our individual freedom and work toward the freedom of our neighbor? Can both forms of freedom truly exist? de Beauvoir wrote The Ethics of Ambiguity in 1947, and she questions and seeks to define personal ethics and freedom in the wake of Nazi atrocities and totalitarianism. We will read The Ethics of Ambiguity in its entirety. At first glance, Franz Kafka…

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$150

Reading is Resistance: July Book Club: YA

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join us to discuss our YA book pick for July: We Are Not From Here, by Jenny Torres Sanchez. We will be diving into the discussion questions provided and explore the book themes. Sign up to join our conversation!

Free
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