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Pageturners Author Visit: Leni Zumas

Multnomah County Library - Midland Library 805 SE 122nd Ave, 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 Red Clocks by Leni Zumas. Abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers alongside age-old questions surrounding motherhood, identity and freedom. Pageturners is sponsored by Friends of the Library.

Free

Powell’s Books Presents: Richard Powers

Revolution Hall 1300 SE Stark St, Portland, OR, United States

Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Richard Powers’s The Overstory is a prescient work of fiction arriving at a time of fierce political debate over the environment and a surge in grassroots activism. From one of America’s most “prodigiously talented” writers (New York Times Book Review) comes a magisterial novel about the world of trees and a band of people determined to change the way it is perceived. In The Overstory, the National Book Award-winning author carves a spellbinding tale of lives interlinked across vast stretches of time and space by nature’s powerful, unseen hand. A year spent under the redwoods of California’s Central Peninsula revealed to Powers the immensity and miracle of trees. In reflecting on his previous novels, he realized he had never fully…

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$28.95

IPRC Print Spree: 2nd Annual Print Show & Sale

Tillamook Station 665 N. Tillamook St., Portland, OR, United States

The IPRC is hosting our 2nd annual print show & sale at Tillamook Station (665 N. Tillamook Street). The IPRC Print Spree features 20 artists' risograph and screen prints, curated by Kate Bingaman-Burt, Niko Courtelis, Fruit Salad Club (Jillian Barthold & Libby Landauer), Last Heavy, and us! Each print has a limited run of 25, and you can grab yours for $30. Proceeds support the artists, curators, and the IPRC community print shop. Join us for an artist/curator panel and preview of the prints at 6:30pm (for $10, which also includes 2 drink tokens). The show opens at 7:30pm for free entry - hope to see you there! Pre-sale panel tickets available at the https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4382580. Poster design by John Akira Harrold

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Pageturners Author Visit: Kenneth R. Coleman

Multnomah County Library - Rockwood Library 17917 SE Stark Street, 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 Dangerous Subjects: James D. Saules and the Rise of Black Exclusion in Oregon by Kenneth R. Coleman. James D. Saules, a black sailor, was shipwrecked off the coast of Oregon and settled there in 1841. Just two years later, Oregon Trail emigrants began arriving in large numbers and Saules had to adapt to a new reality in which Anglo-American settlers persistently sought to marginalize and exclude black residents from the region. In Dangerous Subjects, Coleman sheds light on a neglected chapter in Oregon's history. Pageturners is sponsored by Friends of the Library.

Powell’s Books Presents Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton & Chelsea Clinton

Revolution Hall 1300 SE Stark St, Portland, OR, United States

Powell’s Books presents Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton & Chelsea Clinton - In conversation with Cheryl Strayed Price includes a copy of the Clintons’ The Book of Gutsy Women. Books distributed at event. Attendance is mandatory to receive a copy of the book. “If history shows one thing, it’s that the world needs more gutsy women.” — The Book of Gutsy Women Join Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton as they celebrate the women who have inspired them throughout their lives. The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience is the first book that Secretary Clinton and Chelsea have written together, and they are excited to welcome readers into a conversation they began having when Chelsea was a little girl. Join them…

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$45

Ta-Nehisi Coates in Conversation with Renée Watson

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

Literary Arts is proud to present an evening with acclaimed author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates in celebration of his first novel, The Water Dancer (coming September 24). Coates will be in conversation with bestselling author Renée Watson. Tickets will go on sale July 16 at 1:00 p.m. Tickets start at $15. Each $85/65-level tickets includes a pre-signed copy of The Water Dancer, Coates' latest book (coming September 24). In this boldly imagined work of magic and adventure, Coates offers a bracingly original vision of the world of slavery. Driven by the author’s bold imagination and striking ability to bring readers deep into the interior lives of his brilliantly rendered characters, The Water Dancer is the story of America’s oldest struggle—the struggle to tell the truth—from one…

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$15 – $85

Discover Jazz: The Music and the Movement

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for the latest installment of Discover Jazz, our free lecture series in partnership with Literary Arts! The Music and the Movement will dive in to the inherent relationship between gospel, jazz, and rhythm and blues and the Civil Rights Movement, including an in-depth look at the Free Jazz movement. PDX Jazz Education and Outreach Manager Shelby Walton-Clark (she/her), a California native, has spent the last 6 years living in the Pacific Northwest. After graduating from Gonzaga University with a B.A. in Music and an Elementary Teaching Certificate, Shelby spent 2 years teaching elementary music in Washington, singing in the St. John's Cathedral Choir, and sitting on the board for the Spokane Jazz Orchestra.

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2019/2020 Portland Arts & Lectures: George Packer (Sold Out)

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

George Packer is a journalist, novelist, playwright, and staff writer for The New Yorker. His latest book is Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, which the members of the Whiting Award grant jury—from whom Packer was awarded a grant to complete the work—say is “irreverent, fast-paced, and unfailingly rigorous. . . an enthralling nonfiction picaresque that offers incisive clues to the complexities this country faces today.” Packer’s other works include the nonfiction titles The Unwinding, recipient of the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2013; The Assassins’ Gate, which was named one of the ten best books of 2005 by the New York Times Book Review and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and Blood of the Liberals, which…

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Liz Prato

Mt. Hood Community College Theatre 26000 SE Stark Street, Gresham, OR, United States

The Mouths of Others presents author Liz Prato. Prato is the author of Volcanoes, Palm Trees & Privilege: Essays on Hawaii. Her essays combine lyricism, research and humor to explore the colonization of Hawaii and her role as a white tourist in a land that has been formed and destroyed by white outsiders. She discusses Hawaiian history, pop culture and contemporary affairs. Her work has been listed as a Notable selection in Best American Essays and Best American Sports Writing, and has been widely published in dozens of literary journals and magazines. WHEN: Thursday, Nov. 7 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. WHERE: Visual Arts Theatre, MHCC Gresham campus For more information, please email: Michele.Hampton@mhcc.edu or Andy.Gurevich@mhcc.edu

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Bagley Wright Lecture Series presents Dorothea Laskey

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United States

Dorothea Lasky will read selections from ANIMAL, her new book of poetry lectures (Wave Books, 2019). Constellating four central topics—ghosts, colors, animals, and bees—Lasky serves as an encouraging guide through the startling, sometimes dangerous, always exhilarating landscapes of feral poetic imagination. Dorothea Lasky is the author, most recently, of Animal, published in 2019 in the Bagley Wright Lecture Series. She is also the author of five full-length collections of poetry Milk (Wave Books, 2018), Rome (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2014), Thunderbird (Wave Books, 2012), Black Life (Wave Books, 2010), and AWE (Wave Books, 2007). She is the co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry (McSweeney's, 2013), co-author of Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac (with Alex Dimitrov, Flatiron Books, 2019) and is…

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