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Delve Readers Seminars Online: Free 90 minute Discussion on Normal People by Sally Rooney

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

A free 90-minute Delve discussion on Normal People by Sally Rooney, led by Delve guide Sara Guest. The discussion is limited to 16 people and pre-registration is required. Registered participants will receive information on how to sign on to the Zoom meeting. “Sally Rooney’s sentences are droll, nimble and matter-of-fact. There’s nothing particularly special about them, except for the way she throws them. She’s like one of those elite magicians who can make a playing card pierce the rind of a watermelon.” – Dwight Garner, The New York Times Bursting onto the scene at the age of 26 with the 2017 publication of her first novel Conversations with Friends, Irish novelist Sally Rooney has quickly assumed a coveted spot not only as a voice of…

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Online: Writing a Novel in 8 Weeks

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

For dedicated writers with some experience. Limited to 10 students Through mini-lectures, in-class writing, and lots of workshopping, you will explore matters of storytelling (such as plotting and character development), craft (what makes a good sentence? a good scene?), and motivation (how in the world am I supposed to write a novel in only eight weeks?) to get the work done. This is a boot-camp-style class designed for aspiring novelists who have a clear fictional project in mind and who can commit to a rigorous eight-week schedule of reading and writing. You do not need permission to register, but you should have some prior experience in writing. And if you’ve got an outline for your planned novel, even better. Each participant will present work to…

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$365

Delve Readers Seminars Online: Clarice Lispector: The Passion and Água Viva

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

This Delve takes place online with Zoom teleconferencing. Participants will receive instructions for how to log on to the Zoom meeting. In The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector offers us a story where very little happens, but where the transformation of the protagonist—alongside the reader—is a path with no return. A trivial, almost insignificant event leads to a deep philosophical reflection of the character’s life and her mysterious inner self. “It’s with such profound happiness.” Those are the first words of Água Viva, an in-depth narrative about time, life, death, dreams and creation, where a stream of consciousness gives meaning to the protagonist’s surroundings. Both novels are placed in the threshold of the author’s existential thoughts, where silence is also a powerful means of…

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$110

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club (Remote)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

We will discuss A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Bridget Kemmerer. About the book: Fall in love, break the curse. It once seemed so easy to Prince Rhen, the heir to Emberfall. Cursed by a powerful enchantress to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year over and over, he knew he could be saved if a girl fell for him. But that was before he learned that at the end of each autumn, he would turn into a vicious beast hell-bent on destruction. That was before he destroyed his castle, his family, and every last shred of hope. Nothing has ever been easy for Harper. With her father long gone, her mother dying, and her brother barely holding their family together while constantly underestimating…

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Free

Delve Readers Seminars Online: To the Wedding by John Berger

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

This Delve takes place online with Zoom teleconferencing. Participants will receive instructions for how to log on to the Zoom meeting. “I like quoting ancient verses when the occasion is apt.  I remember most of what I hear, and I listen all day but sometimes I do not know how to fit everything together.  When this happens I cling to words or phrases which seem to ring true.” So begins John Berger’s To the Wedding (1995), a modern fable, at once lyrical and realistic, of life affirmed amidst death, of significance fashioned where meaning may not be found.  Writing in the wake of the AIDs epidemic and amidst the moral fatigue of post-Cold War Europe, Berger’s story of the lovers Ninon and Gino invokes the…

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$75

Discussing “The Cassandra” with Author Sharma Shields

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Click here to join at Salon Time This salon is free and open to the public. Please join us! Click here to confirm event start in your timezone Join Satya Doyle Byock for an evening Salon conversation with author Sharma Shields about her masterful book, The Cassandra. In many ways paralleling Carl Jung’s pre-cognition about WWI as documented in The Red Book, The Cassandra is a novel exploring salomehttps://www.portlandjung.com/seminars/discussing-the-cassandra-with-author-sharma-shieldsthe inner and outer story of a woman who goes to work in a top secret research facility during WWII, only to be tormented by visions of what the mission will mean for humankind. Mildred Groves is an unusual young woman. Gifted and cursed with the ability to see the future, Mildred runs away from home to…

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Free

Vanport Mosaic Festival: Becoming American. A conversation

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

As part of The ~virtual~ Vanport Mosaic Festival 2020 - May 8-30 Vanport Mosaic presents: BECOMING AMERICAN. A Conversation ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Sunday, May 17th 5:00 PM PST/ 8:00 PM EST Streaming on Vanport Mosaic Facebook page and at www.vanportmosaic.org ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• This is a FREE event. If you can, please support our memory activism collective by a tax-deductible donation to >> vanportmosaic.org/donate •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Who gets to be “American?” How many generations does it take for one to become an American? These questions of American identity have long surrounded the immigrant experience and its answers are tangled in our country’s webbed history with immigration, racism and xenophobia. Join author Ramiza Koya and founder of The Immigrant Story, Sankar Raman as they bring their unique perspectives and explore ideas…

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HYPNOZINE Release Party

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

A release party for us all to slip into the HYPNO-verse. HYPNOZINE: THE BIRTH OF HYPNO is an illustrated psychedelic science fiction novel that ebbs and flows between narrative and poetry written by Jason Squamata, with illustrations and design by Andrew Mc Kenzie. It’s a mythology from a weird future that shifts and shimmers on the other side of our chaos. A book-shaped game that kisses the eye and says “play.”

Free

Virtual Story Time with Nikki McClure

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Throwing it back to better days when Nikki McClure read her latest picture book What Will These Hands Make? And thinking ahead to brighter days when she'll read to us- virtually!- her book, Mama, Is It Summer Yet? Join us Tuesday, May 19th at 11am right here on our Facebook page!

Free

Page to Screen Book Club (Remote)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The Books Around the Corner Page to Screen Book Club is led by the owner/librarian, Stephanie Rose, and meets monthly on the third Tuesday of every month at 6PM beginning in May. We would like to extend an invitation to all of our customers that love books that have or will become adapted into shows or films. (RSVP is not required). Our book discussions aim to bring people together to talk about books in a safe and inviting atmosphere. Our meetings are lovely and inclusive; we invite you to attend. Come and enjoy a lively discussion about the chosen book with other readers. Join us on May 19th for our first Page to Screen Book Club. We will discuss Normal People by Sally Rooney. Connell…

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