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PNCA Presents: Renee Gladman and Lisa Radon

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland

PNCA presents Renee Gladman and Lisa Radon at the Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) on January 10th at 6:30 pm as part of the Low-Residency MFA Creative Writing Winter Residency. Gladman and Radon will read from their most recent works. This event is made possible by a generous grant from the Collins Foundation. It’s free and open to the public. Renee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out at the intersections of poetry, prose, drawing and architecture. She is the author of twelve published works, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants, the Ravickians—Event Factory (2010), The Ravickians (2011), Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge (2013), and Houses of Ravicka (2017)—as well…

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The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth

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

Fake news posts and Twitter trolls were just the beginning. What will happen when misinformation moves from our social media feeds into our everyday lives? Despite Samuel Woolley's warnings as early as 2013, the problem of online disinformation stormed our political process in 2016 and has only worsened since. Yet as Woolley shows in his urgent new book, The Reality Game (PublicAffairs), it may pale in comparison to what's to come: human-like automated voice systems, machine learning, "deepfake" AI-edited videos and images, interactive memes, and more. In deeply researched stories, Woolley describes this future and imagines its profound impact on our politics.

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Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault

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

Entering the academy at the dawn of the women’s rights movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the first generation of feminist academics had a difficult journey. With few female role models, they had to forge their own path and prove that feminist scholarship was a legitimate enterprise. In her compelling memoir, Living When Everything Changed (Rutgers), Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault describes how a Catholic girl from small-town Nebraska discovered her callings as a feminist, as an academic, and as a university administrator. She recounts her experiences at three very different schools: Lewis & Clark College, Cal State Fullerton, and Portland State University.

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