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William Aime (’15) David Kroman (’11) return to campus reading from the work they’ve done since graduation. Both Aime and Kroman have had some success – in different ways – in the writing world. They will talk about paying the bills, being newly graduated, and keeping the writing flame going, long after the spark of undergraduate classes has dimmed away. Location: Miller Hall, Room 102
Derek Sandhaus will launch his new book about Chinese alcohol and drinking culture, and discuss what it will take for the world to finally clink glasses with the Middle Kingdom.
The definitive biography of the beloved – often controversial – cocreator of many legendary superheroes, Danny Fingeroth’s A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee (St. Martin’s) presents the origin of "Stan the Man," who spun a storytelling web of comic book heroic adventures into a pop culture phenomenon: the Marvel Universe. Fingeroth, himself a longtime writer and editor at Marvel Comics, and now a lauded pop culture critic and historian, knew and worked with Lee for over four decades. Fingeroth will be joined in conversation by Eisner Award-winning comic book writer and artist Brian Michael Bendis.
Please join Certificate Program students, faculty and IPRC Community for an evening of readings from our 2019 Visiting Writers. In conjunction with this reading, printmakers Ryan Brewer, Heather Lane and Timme Lu are designing commemorative broadsides, which will be available by donation at the event. The 2019 Visiting Writers Series was made possible by support from the Multnomah County Cultural Coalition and the Jackson Foundation.
John Larison spent much of his childhood in remote regions of Australia, the Caribbean, Canada, the South Pacific, Alaska, and the American West before graduating from high school in Ithaca, New York. He studied philosophy and literature at the University of Oregon, and became a renowned fly-fishing guide ahead of earning an MFA from Oregon State University, where he stayed to teach while writing Whiskey When We’re Dry. He lives with his family in rural Oregon. From a blazing new voice in fiction, a gritty and lyrical American epic about a young woman who disguises herself as a boy and heads west Synopsis: In the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and alone on her family’s homestead. Desperate to fend off starvation…
Join us for a very special FUR with guest curator Stevan Allred, author of The Alehouse at The End of The World, as we explore a story about abuse, retribution and healing through the Grimm tale The Juniper Tree. Stevan is joined by writers Missy Ladygo, Susan DeFreitas, and Nicole Rosevear at Indivisible, 2544 SE 26th Ave between Clinton and Division.
Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name – and spawned a new genre, the technothriller – the threat returns, in Daniel H. Wilson’s The Andromeda Evolution (Harper), a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic and resonant. Deep inside Fairchild Air Force Base, Project Eternal Vigilance has continued to watch and wait for the Andromeda Strain to reappear. On the verge of being shut down, the project has registered no activity – until now. A Brazilian terrain-mapping drone has detected a bizarre anomaly of otherworldly matter in the middle of the jungle, and, worse yet, the telltale chemical signature of the deadly microparticle. With this shocking discovery, the next-generation Project Wildfire is activated, and a diverse team of experts hailing from…
We are ever so pleased to host the great Amy Rigby! Amy has a new book out - Girl to City - and will be playing songs and reading from her book. Very special guest Scott The Hoople (Scott McCaughey) opens. Don't miss! 21+// $10// 8pm Amy Rigby’s long-awaited memoir will be published in October 2019. Girl To City: describes Amy’s progression from Elton John fan in the Pittsburgh suburbs to Manhattan art student, CBGB habitué and fledgling musician, to critically acclaimed singer-songwriter. Set in a twentieth century New York world of homemade clubs and bands — through love affairs, temp jobs and motherhood — the challenge of balancing art and real life gave Rigby the themes that define her work as a songwriter and…