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Survival of the Feminist: Survival Stories

The Corporeal Writing Center 510 SW 3rd Ave #101, Portland

Survival of the Feminist: Survival Stories -- A Quarterly Reading Series We welcome feminist readers from across the gender spectrum and from every intersection sharing their written work in narrative tapestry. We hope to be antidepressant, hope-peddling, boundary-breaking, multicultural, and oriented towards action. Our January reading theme is Resistance. Doors at 6:30pm. **Suggested Donation at the door is $10 *** We value being able to pay our readers for their art and NO ONE EVER TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS!!! Our readers will be: Anya Pearson, Darlene Solomon-Rogers, Ashley Walker, Katherine Morgan, Rashida Quinn, Charlie-Char Michelle Westerly, Maya Litauer Chan, Anna Whiterock, and Zaji Cox Hosted by G. Ravyn Stanfield and Marissa Korbel, with special guest host Anya Pearson

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Reading: Mary Miller Doyle: Brian Doyle’s One Long River of Song

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland

Annie Bloom's welcome's Mary Miller Doyle, to read from her late husband's essay collection, One Long River of Song. When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with brain cancer, he left behind a cult-like following of devoted readers who regard his writing as one of the best-kept secrets of the twenty-first century. Doyle writes with a delightful sense of wonder about the sanctity of everyday things, and about love and connection in all their forms: spiritual love, brotherly love, romantic love, and even the love of a nine-foot sturgeon. At a moment when the world can sometimes feel darker than ever, Doyle's writing, which constantly evokes the humor and even bliss that life affords, is a balm. His essays…

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Liska Jacobs

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

To coolheaded, fastidious Pricilla Messing, Italy will be an escape, a brief glimpse of freedom from a life that's starting to feel like one long decline. Rescued from the bedside of her difficult mother, 40-something Cilla finds herself called away to Rome to keep an eye on her wayward teenage niece, Hannah. But after years of caregiving, babysitting is the last thing Cilla wants to do. Instead she throws herself into Hannah's youthful, heedless world – relishing the heady atmosphere of the Italian summer. But being so close to Hannah brings up complicated memories, making Cilla restless and increasingly reckless, and a dangerous flirtation with a teenage boy soon threatens to send her into a tailspin. In The Worst Kind of Want (MCD), Liska Jacobs…

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