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Damon Krukowski

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

Our voices carry farther than ever before, thanks to digital media. But how are they being heard? In his new book, writer-musician Damon Krukowski examines how the switch from analog to digital audio is changing our perceptions of time, space, love, money, and power. In Ways of Hearing (MIT) – modeled on Ways of Seeing, John Berger's influential 1972 book on visual culture – Krukowski offers readers a set of tools for critical listening in the digital age. Krukowski lays out a choice: Do we want a world enriched by the messiness of noise, or one that strives toward the purity of signal only?

Free

David Vann

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

In his riveting new novel, Prix Médicis étranger winner David Vann reimagines his father’s final days. Halibut on the Moon (Grove) traces the roots of mental illness in one man’s life as he attempts to anchor himself to the places and people that once shaped his sense of identity. In vivid and haunting prose, Vann offers us an aching portrait of a mind in peril, searching desperately for some hope of redemption.

Free

Reading: Angus Vieira

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland

Author, poet, photographer, and bullshit artist.

Free
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