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Lauren Acampora in Conversation With Cari Luna

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

In small-town Michigan, Abby Graven leads a solitary life. Once a bright student on the cusp of a promising art career, she now languishes in her childhood home, trudging to and from her job as a supermarket cashier. Each day she is taunted from the magazine racks by the success of her former best friend, Elise, a rising Hollywood starlet whose life in pictures Abby obsessively scrapbooks. At night Abby escapes through the films of her favorite director, Auguste Perren, a cult figure known for his creative institute, the Rhizome. Inspired by Perren, Abby draws fantastical storyboards based on her often premonitory dreams, a visionary gift she keeps hidden. When Abby encounters Elise again at their high school reunion, she is surprised and warmed that…

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Classics Book Group

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

This month our group meets to discuss Death in Venice by Thomas Mann. Join us!

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Susan Steinberg in Conversation With Leni Zumas

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

Susan Steinberg’s first novel, Machine (Graywolf), is a dazzling and innovative leap forward for a writer whose most recent book, Spectacle, gained her a rapturous following. Machine revolves around a group of teenagers – both locals and wealthy out-of-towners – during a single summer at the shore. Steinberg captures the pressures and demands of this world in a voice that effortlessly slides from collective to singular, as one girl recounts a night on which another girl drowned. Hoping to assuage her guilt and evade a similar fate, she pieces together the details of this tragedy, as well as the breakdown of her own family, and learns that no one, not even she, is blameless. A daring stylist, Steinberg contrasts semicolon-studded sentences with short lines that…

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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 The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh. Join us!

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Submission Deadline: The Masters Review Short Story Award for New Writers

The Internet 001 SE Cyberspace Lane, Portland, OR, United States

Judged by Tope Folarin (A Particular Kind of Black Man) this contest gives winners and honorable mentions agency review, publication, and cash awards. Winning stories are given $3,000, second place $300, and third $200. Emerging writers only. $20 entry fee. Stories should be under 6,000 words. Simultaneous submissions allowed, but no previously published work. International submissions and translations welcomed (see details for caveats). Additional information can be found here as well.

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The Trauma Cleaner

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

Hello all of you lovely True Crime junkies! Pick up your copy of The Trauma Cleaner and start reading! Then come join us from 3-5, to discuss the book, snack on yummy treats, drink some wine, and talk True Crime shop! If you want to support the gracious host of our little book club that could, please purchase your copy of The Trauma Cleaner from Books Around the Corner. You can even have it shipped to you for just $5.

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Pageturners Author Visit: Stevan Allred

Multnomah County Library - Capitol Hill Meeting Room 10723 SW Capitol Highway, Portland, OR, United States

Engage in stimulating conversation about books, exchange perspectives about characters and plot, and get to know your neighbors. Meet the author! Read The Alehouse at the End of the World by Stevan Allred. In this epic comedy set in the 16th century, bawdy Shakespearean love triangles play out with shapeshifting avian demigods and a fertility goddess, drunken revelry, bio-dynamic gardening, and a narcissistic, bullying crow, who may have colluded with a foreign power. Pageturners is sponsored by Friends of the Library.

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PROCYON II book release with Karissa Sakumoto

Floating World Comics 1223 Lloyd Center, Portland, OR, United States

Join Karissa Sakumoto on Thursday Sept. 5 to celebrate the release of her new book, PROCYON II, published by Floating World Comics. Oneill Island / 3 Type Colony / Alpha Quadrant ::: Set on a distant space colony, Procyon II follows a nameless protagonist through the city labyrinth in what is either an escape from a simulation, the recollection of a dream, or a betrayal of the self. WHO: Karissa Sakumoto WHAT: PROCYON II book release and art exhibit WHEN: Thursday Sept. 5, 6-8pm WHERE: Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St.

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BwP Book Club: Pretty Deadly: The Rat #1

Books with Pictures 1401 SE Division Street, Portland, OR, United States

After two years off the shelves, PRETTY DEADLY is coming back this September, launching the first issue of arc three (of five), PRETTY DEADLY VOL. 3: THE RAT, on September 4th, 2019. Middle chapter! Quirky literary comic, beloved by academics! In a market that seems, for the moment anyway, to be down for indies! SALES DYNAMITE, AM I RIGHT?!! Lucky for Kelly Sue and Emma, we at Books with Pictures have a huge amount of confidence in this book. The old Hollywood silent film aesthetic looks extraordinary, and DeConnick and Rios are both storytellers at the top of their game. And lucky for US, they are supporting the book's launch with materials for a monthly BOOK CLUB. There will be DISCUSSION GUIDES for each issue…

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Lydia Kiesling in Conversation With Meaghan O’Connell

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

In Lydia Kiesling’s razor-sharp debut novel, The Golden State (Picador), we accompany Daphne, a young mother on the edge of a breakdown, as she flees her sensible but strained life in San Francisco for the high desert of Altavista with her toddler, Honey. Buckling under the weight of being a single parent, Daphne takes refuge in a mobile home left to her by her grandparents in the hope that the quiet will bring clarity. Boy, was she wrong. Ultimately, Daphne must reconcile her inner narrative with the reality of a deeply divided world. The National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honoree will be joined in conversation by Meaghan O’Connell, author of And Now We Have Everything.

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