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Powell’s Books presents Senator Jeff Merkley

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Rick Moody

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Books Around the Corner Book Club

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Reading: Bryan Denson: The Unabomber

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Pok Pok Noodles: Recipes From Thailand and Beyond

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Southern Oregon Beer: A Pioneering History

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Longreads Club: LGBTI Asylum Seekers in Africa

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Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents

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Lisa Congdon

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Chronicles of a Blessed Man – Paul Haber

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Westside Writing Group

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Ganesh Sitaraman

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Fall 2019: Memoir Accountability

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Submission Deadline: Creative Nonfiction (CNF) Studio | Sep 26 – Dec 19

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Portland — Weird. Wonderful. Bizarre.

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Randall Munroe

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Mallory Smith: A Reading from her Memoir by Diane Smith

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Emily Nagoski

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An Evening with Madeleine Albright

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From Chaos to Creativity Tour

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Dan Schilling

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Pageturners Author Visit: Rudy Owens

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Caroline Kurtz

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Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

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Liz Prato in Conversation with Jacqueline Keeler

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THIS IS NOT A RUSSIAN PLOT: A “Readings for Now” Seminar

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Echo of Distant Water – JB Fisher

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Hangdog Days: Conflict, Change, and the Race for 5.14

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Raymond Caballero in Conversation With Barbara Dudley

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Fall 2019: Grief and the Lyric Essay

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Wendy Ortiz – The Nonfictional Body: Sept. 14

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Fall 2019: Writing the Memoir 9 month Intensive

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Longreads: How Saudi Arabia Makes Dissidents Disappear

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Fall 2019: Memoir Boot Camp

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Grace Paley’s Life Stories with Judith Arcana

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Ian Brennan in Conversation With Larry Crane

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An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People

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What It Means to Be Moral

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Intro to Flash Nonfiction w Brian Benson

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Fall Cookbook Club

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Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust

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The Immigrant Story Live

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Susan Banyas

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Author Event: Don Merrill

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Westside Writing Group

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An Evening with Dan Rather

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Inconspicuous Consumption

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Paul Lisicky – On Urgency: A Memoir and Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Sept. 21-22

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Kami McBride Book Signing

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Paul Lisicky Reading

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Bulletproof Your Year: Bullet Journaling Workshop

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Drive-Thru Dreams

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Avan Jogia

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Christopher Leonard

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Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power

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Naomi Klein in Conversation With Thom Hartmann

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Marilyn Stablein

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Wilding: Returning Nature to Our Farm

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Kitchen Table Launch Party

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Reading: Tom Alkire: Western Waters

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Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next

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Lawrence Shainberg

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An Evening with Anderson Cooper

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Hazel Newlevant

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Marilynne Eichinger

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Jenny Brown in Conversation with Leni Zumas

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Amy Long with Sophia Shalmiyev

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Seane Corn

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A Frayed Knot / AFRAID NOT – JACQUELINE KEELER: READING + PRESENTATION

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Kristen J. Sollée in Conversation With Ev’Yan Whitney

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Westside Writing Group

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Jackie Shannon Hollis

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The Mystery Box Show – True Stories All About Sex

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“How do we become . . . us?”

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Fatima Bhutto

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