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ANI DIFRANCO in Conversation With Cari Luna – SOLD OUT

Revolution Hall 1300 SE Stark St, Portland

Despite her rebellion against the music industry, Ani DiFranco became one of the most prolific indie artists — selling over 5.5 million albums and winning numerous awards, including a Grammy. In her new memoir, DiFranco shares the unconventional path that led her to become a music industry and activist trailblazer while maintaining an artistic integrity that has inspired and challenged many. In No Walls and the Recurring Dream, DiFranco’s prose is as incisive and poetic as her songs, combining hard-won wisdom and personal expression to convey the power of music, feminism, political activism, storytelling, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, and much more. Passionate and candid, DiFranco shares her inspiring and radical story — from being an emancipated minor sleeping in a Buffalo bus station, to releasing her first…

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Paulann Petersen

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland

We welcome Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita Paulann Petersen to read from her new collection of poetry, One Small Sun, published by Salmon Poetry. The poems take readers from a fur shop in Oregon to a Hyderabadi shrine in India's subcontinent. Tapping deeply into memory, relying on poetry's ability to bring alive again what is coded into the blood, these poems ultimately form an arc of an aging woman's life. This collection tells the tales of what she has always realized, is ever learning, but -- only through poetry's vehicle -- can truly know. Petersen was born in Portland and graduated from Franklin High School. She attended college at Pomona College in California and Southern Oregon State College in Ashland, earning a master's degree in Humanities, Fine…

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A Dog Named Beautiful: A Marine, a Dog, and a Long Road Trip Home

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

When U.S. Marine Rob Kugler returned from war, he had not only given up years of his life in service to his country, but he had also lost a brother in the fighting. Lost in grief, Kugler found solace and relief in the one thing that never failed to put a smile on his face: his chocolate lab, Bella. But then Bella started to get sick. It was cancer, and the prognosis wasn’t good. Instead of waiting at home for the cancer to spread, Kugler and Bella packed their bags and hit the road. A Dog Named Beautiful (Flatiron) is the uplifting story of a Marine, his extraordinary dog, and the road trip of a lifetime.

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Julie Orringer in Conversation With Karen Thompson Walker

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

The Flight Portfolio (Knopf), the long-awaited new work from Julie Orringer, author of The Invisible Bridge, takes us back to occupied Europe. The Flight Portfolio, a gripping historical novel of the very first order, is based on the true story of Varian Fry’s extraordinary attempt to save the work, and the lives, of Jewish artists fleeing the Holocaust. Orringer will be joined in conversation by Karen Thompson Walker, author of The Age of Miracles.

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