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Visiting Writers Series: Hilary Plum

Reed College - Eliot Hall Chapel 3203 SE Woodstock, Portland

Hilary Plum is the author of the novel Strawberry Fields, winner of the Fence Modern Prize in Prose (2018); the work of nonfiction Watchfires (2016), winner of the 2018 GLCA New Writers Award; and the novel They Dragged Them Through the Streets (2013). She has worked for a number of years as an editor of international literature, history, and politics. She teaches at Cleveland State University and in the NEOMFA program and is associate director of the CSU Poetry Center. With Zach Savich she edits the Open Prose Series at Rescue Press.

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Windfall: Poetry of Place

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland

Broadway Books celebrates the Fall 2019 issue of Windfall magazine with a reading on Thursday, November 7th, at 7 pm by four northwest writers represented in the current issue. Poets Melody Leming-Wilson, Melissa Madenski, Lex Runciman and Mark Thalman will read, along with Windfall’s co-editors Michael McDowell and Bill Siverly. Windfall: A Journal of Poetry of Place features poetry that captures the spirit of place as part of the essence of the poem. The journal particularly emphasizes poetry written in the Pacific Northwest that is attentive to the relationships between people and the landscapes in which we live. It has been published since 2002.

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Reading: A. B. Paulson: BigFoot Moon: formerly The American Quarterly Review: a Portland Novel

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland

Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland author A. B. Paulson to read from his novel, BigFoot Moon: formerly The American Quarterly Review: a Portland Novel. When beatnik sailor Bill Caxton waded ashore near Manzanita in 1958, he encountered an extraordinary local woman. 40 years later, he's searching for the son they conceived. But the eccentric detective he's hired must also solve a murder. Given these distractions, Caxton hands over the operation of his literary magazine--The American Quarterly Review--to two newcomers, and they argue about how to revamp the magazine. Their next issue becomes this novel. Readers fond of puzzles will find that piecing together the plot--veiled in a web of short stories, articles, and serial fiction--presents an intriguing challenge. Look for treatments of Sylvia Plath's mother, William…

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P. C. Cast & Kristin Cast

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

The Nerd Herd returns in Forgotten (Blackstone), the next thrilling adventure in the House of Night Other World series by authors P. C. and Kristin Cast. What happens when worlds clash and powers that should be left alone are awakened? Can Other Kevin and his world heal from the wounds Neferet continues to inflict? Can Old Magick ever truly be harnessed and used for good? Or will Darkness extinguish Light and leave our heroes broken, hopeless, and as forgotten as Kalona of the Silver Wings? Don't miss this second to last volume in the House of Night Other World saga!

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Johanna Stoberock & Elizabeth Earley in Conversation With Monica Drake

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

In the tradition of Lord of the Flies, Johanna Stoberock’s Pigs (Red Hen) is an exquisitely wrought fable about the excesses of the contemporary world – asking questions about community, environmental responsibility, and the possibility of innocence. Both a philosophical novel and a coming-of-age story, Elizabeth Earley’s Like Wings, Your Hands (Red Hen) explores a mother-son relationship in the context of disability and interdependence, while also raising questions about the nature of time and space and the limitless capacities of the human mind. Stoberock and Earley will be joined in conversation by Monica Drake, author of The Folly of Loving Life.

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