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Rick Wilson

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

In his full-throttle playbook for 2020, Running Against the Devil (Crown Forum), Rick Wilson – longtime Republican strategist and author of Everything Trump Touches Dies – warns Democrats not to make the mistakes that could reelect the worst president in history. A 30-year veteran of national political campaigns and one of the most famous ad makers in politics, Wilson brings his experience, insight, knowledge, and signature humor to the 2020 race, just in time to save the Democrats from their worst instincts.

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Westside Writing Group

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

A group for anyone writing nonfiction or memoir who would like company, support, and, most of all, accountability. Whether you’ve never written a word or you’re a published author, join us!

Free

Anna Wiener in Conversation With Meaghan O’Connell

Powell's Books on Hawthorne 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland

In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener – stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial – left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance, dubious success, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination, glory, and, of course, progress. Part coming-of-age-story, part portrait of an already bygone era, Anna Wiener’s memoir, Uncanny Valley (MCD), is a rare first-person glimpse into high-flying, reckless startup culture at a time of unchecked ambition, unregulated surveillance, wild fortune, and accelerating political power. Wiener will be joined…

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Powell’s First Word Reading Series – featuring Grief Rites

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

As of January, Powells has launched a new initiative called the FIrst Word Reading Series. The purpose is to "highlight emerging voices from every corner of the Portland literary community. Each month, a different writer, publisher, or literary organization will curate a one-of-a-kind night of readings and performances." We'll follow our typical format. Each reader will have time at the mic to share their grief inspired story. We're so excited for you to experience the dynamic of this group....everything from personal essay to poetry to slam to music. As always, Trigger Warning, because GRIEF. Please remember that Grief Rites does not vett our readers, so the first time you hear their particular piece of work will be our first time, as well. Trigger warnings and…

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Powell’s Books Presents NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF & SHERYL WUDUNN

Newmark Theatre 1111 SW Broadway Ave., Portland

Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, bestselling authors of Half the Sky, return with a deeply personal new book, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope. Looking with clear eyes at our nation’s governmental failures over the past half-century, Kristof and WuDunn examine the contemporary crisis in working-class America through the lens of the families Kristof grew up with in the rural, working-class town of Yamhill, Oregon. Yamhill prospered for much of the 20th century, but, like many working class towns, has been devastated as blue-collar jobs disappeared. About one-quarter of the kids Kristof grew up with have died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents. “We wanted to understand more deeply what had happened to Nick’s friends on the school bus,” they write, and “how our…

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