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Spanish Translator & Author Jeff Diteman

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

Spanish Translator & Author Jeff Diteman will read from his work. Jeff Diteman will read from his translation of the novel The Anarchist Who Shared My Name by Oulipo Member Pablo Martín Sánchez. Diteman will discuss the history of constraint-based literature and its complex relationship with politics and philosophy, referencing works by Oulipians Raymond Queneau, Georges Perec, Anne Garréta, and Michèle Audin. Jeff is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, specializing in Latin American and francophone literature. His work has been published by Drunken Boat, Nailed Magazine, Inventory, Jacobin, McSweeney’s, and Deep Vellum. Lena Walker will present her translations of Russian poetry, including poems written in a Soviet prison by Yuli Daniel, a song by the dissident Vladimir Vissotsky,…

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Mystery/Thrillers Book Club

Books Around the Corner 40 NW 2nd Street, Gresham, OR, United States

We will discuss The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager. A young woman returns to her childhood summer camp to uncover the truth about a tragedy that happened there fifteen years ago. Available at a 15% discount to order if you plan on attending the book club. Email us to order it or come in!

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Reading: Judith Teitelman: Guesthouse for Ganesha

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes Los Angeles author Judith Teitelman to read from her debut novel, Guesthouse for Ganesha. In 1923, seventeen-year-old Esther Grünspan arrives in Köln "with a hardened heart as her sole luggage." Thus begins a twenty-two-year journey, woven against the backdrops of the European Holocaust and the Hindu Kali Yuga (the "Age of Darkness" when human civilization degenerates spiritually), in search of a place of sanctuary. Throughout her travails, using cunning and shrewdness, Esther relies on her masterful tailoring skills to help mask her Jewish heritage, navigate war-torn Europe, and emigrate to India. Esther's traveling companion and the novel's narrator is Ganesha, the elephant-headed Hindu God worshipped by millions for his abilities to destroy obstacles, bestow wishes, and avenge evils. Impressed by Esther's fortitude…

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Book Launch Party for Itty Bitty Writing Space

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Celebrate flash fiction with readings and a Q&A with authors from the latest Flash in a Flash Anthology!

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Songs and Readings from The Alehouse at the End of the World

Books Around the Corner 40 NW 2nd Street, Gresham, OR, United States

The Alehouse at the End of the World is Stevan Allred’s bawdy romp through the afterlife, written with the gusto of a great drinking song, and there are actual songs in it. When it came time to do the audiobook, Allred had his recording engineer, Dan Rhiger, do the singing. Join Stevan Allred and Dan Rhiger’s band, Sky in the Road, for an evening of Americana and Celtic music, and songs and readings from The Alehouse at the End of the World. Books are available for purchase at Books Around the Corner now and will also be available at the reading and signing. Email info@booksaroundthecorner.com to order a copy today!

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Young Adult Book Club (Burnside)

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

The Young Adult Book Club is a safe place for teens to talk about books. You pick the books and Powell’s brings the snacks! We meet monthly to discuss strong stories with diverse characters. This month we meet to discuss All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater. Join us!

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Kristen Arnett in Conversation With Karen Russell

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

One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide, right there on one of the metal tables. Shocked and grieving, Jessa steps up to manage the failing business, while the rest of the Morton family crumbles. Her mother starts sneaking into the shop to make aggressively lewd art with the taxidermied animals. Her brother Milo withdraws, struggling to function. And Brynn, Milo’s wife — and the only person Jessa’s ever been in love with — walks out without a word. As Jessa seeks out less-than-legal ways of generating income, her mother’s art escalates — picture a figure of her dead husband and a stuffed buffalo in an uncomfortably sexual pose — and the Mortons reach a…

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Fonda Lee

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

In Fonda Lee’s Jade War (Orbit), the second book in her Green Bone Saga and the sequel to her World Fantasy Award-winning novel Jade City, the Kaul siblings battle rival clans for honor and control over an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis. On the island of Kekon, the Kaul family is locked in a violent feud for control of the capital city and the supply of magical jade that endows trained Green Bone warriors with supernatural powers. Beyond Kekon's borders, war is brewing. Powerful foreign governments and mercenary criminal kingpins alike turn their eyes on the island nation. Jade, Kekon's most prized resource, could make them rich — or give them the edge they'd need to topple their rivals. Faced with threats on all sides, the Kaul…

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Daniel Nieh

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

Victor Li is devastated by his father’s murder, and shocked by a confessional letter he finds among his father’s things. In it, his father admits that he was never just a restaurateur – in fact he was part of a vast international crime syndicate that formed during China’s leanest communist years. Victor travels to Beijing, where he navigates his father’s secret criminal life, confronting decades-old grudges, violent spats, and a shocking new enterprise that the organization wants to undertake. Standing up against it is likely what got his father killed, but Victor remains undeterred. He enlists his growing network of allies and friends to finish what his father started, no matter the costs. Daniel Nieh’s Beijing Payback (Ecco) is a fast-paced revenge thriller, bursting with…

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Horror Book Club

Books Around the Corner 40 NW 2nd Street, Gresham, OR, United States

We will discuss Summer of Night by Dan Simmons. It's the summer of 1960 and in the town of Elm Haven, Illinois, five 12-year-old boys are forging the powerful bonds that a lifetime of change will not break. But amid the sun-drenched cornfields their loyalty will be tested when horrifying events begin spreading terror. Available at a 15% discount to order if you plan on attending the book club.

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