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Kate Gray and Armin Tolentino

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

We welcome poets Kate Gray and Armin Tolentino reading from their newest collections: For Every Girl (Widow and Orphan House) and We Meant to Bring it Home Alive (Alternating Current Press), respectively, at 7 pm on Tuesday, September 17th. For Every Girl is a love song to and celebration of the girl, the queer, the survivor in all of us. In these poems we find not only testimony to the resiliency of girls but an invitation to delight in the pure pleasure of their joy. The book features new and selected poems and includes a conversation between Gray and Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita Paulann Petersen. Frances Payne Adler, poet and founder of the Creative Writing and Social Action Program at CSU-Monterey Bay, says “I am…

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Reading: Jack Moody: Dancing to Broken Records

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland author Jack Moody to read from his fiction collection, Dancing to Broken Records. Henry Gallagher is a failure. Born into a broken family, now a young alcoholic struggling with mental illness, Henry is successful at one thing: destroying his life. While spending his time and waning finances at local bars and on any woman who will show him affection, Henry reflects on his past, seeing no future other than the one he believes has been preordained for him. From a funeral in Ireland, to a chance meeting with a German millionaire, to a booze-soaked and bloody version of Last Tango in Paris, Henry's life is both darkly humorous and unapologetically human. Accompanied by stories of other down and out characters fighting…

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April Henry & Carolyn O’Doherty

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

When a shooting breaks out in a Portland shopping mall, six teen misfits are trapped. Many of them are hiding impossible secrets, and all of them have a lot at stake. Can they set aside their differences and band together to fight for survival? Run, Hide, Fight Back (Henry Holt) is April Henry’s new standalone YA thriller. In Unleashed (Boyds Mill), the second book in Carolyn O’Doherty’s riveting Rewind trilogy for teens, Alex finds that the city outside the Center is more complicated and dangerous than she’d imagined – and that some of the dangers lie within herself.

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Whitenoise Project 22 + Caldera

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United States

Whitenoise Project 22 + Caldera: Jolly Wrapper / Ahmed / Cheuk / Peñaloza September 17, 2019 7:00 p.m. Literary Arts (925 SW Washington St., Portland, OR 97205) Join Whitenoise Project and Caldera for a special event at Literary Arts! The night will feature readings and book signings from alumni of Caldera’s Youth Program and Artists in Residence (AiR) Program, including authors Michelle Peñaloza, Leland Cheuk, and Farooq Ahmed, all of whom have just-published or soon-to-be published books that were completed at Caldera. Special guest Jolly Wrapper will open the evening.

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Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust

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

Despite the hype surrounding AI, creating an intelligence that rivals or exceeds human levels is far more complicated than we have been led to believe. The achievements in the field thus far have occurred in closed systems with fixed sets of rules, and these approaches are too narrow to achieve genuine intelligence. The real world, in contrast, is wildly complex and open-ended. Gary Marcus’s Rebooting AI (Pantheon) (coauthored by Ernest Davis) provides a clear-eyed assessment of the current science and offers an inspiring vision of how a new generation of AI can make our lives better.

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Molly Gloss

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

We are thrilled to welcome Molly Gloss back to the store at 7 pm on Wednesday, September 18th,  to read from her recently published collection of stories, Unforeseen, published by Saga/Simon & Schuster. This first complete collection of her stories includes two brand new unpublished stories. Molly Gloss is a fourth-generation Oregonian and the author of several previous novels, including Hearts of Horses, The Jump-off Creek, and The Dazzle of Day. three of her novels -- Outside the Gates, The Dazzle of Day, and Wild Life -- were reissued by Simon and Schuster last spring. She has won several awards for her writing, including an Oregon Book Award, a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, the PEN West Fiction Prize, the James Tiptree Jr. Award, and a…

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Gabby Rivera in Conversation With Tehlor Kay Mejia

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

Juliet Milagros Palante is a self-proclaimed closeted Puerto Rican baby dyke from the Bronx. Only, she’s not so closeted anymore. Not after coming out to her family the night before flying to Portland, Oregon, to intern with her favorite feminist writer – what’s sure to be a life-changing experience. And when Juliet’s coming-out crashes and burns, she’s not sure her mom will ever speak to her again. In a summer bursting with queer brown dance parties, a sexy fling with a motorcycling librarian, and intense explorations of race and identity, Juliet learns what it means to come out – to the world, to her family, to herself. Juliet Takes a Breath (Dial) is Gabby Rivera’s gutsy coming-of-age story for teens. Rivera will be joined in…

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All Pinxy All Stars at Milepost 5

De-Canon Library / ArtHaus at Milepost 5 8155 NE Oregon St, Portland, OR, United States

Join the Portland-based celebration(s!!) for the launch of Michelle Peñaloza's FORMER POSSESSIONS OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE! Join us on September 18th for an evening with All Star Pinxy writers, Christopher Rose, Armin Tolentino, Janice Sapigao, Jake Vermaas along with Michelle, in APANO's De-Canon Library at Milepost 5. Portland- and Northern California- based poets will join forces to combine readings and karaoke into an extravaganza of entertainment and literary import! Doors open at 6:30pm, and readings/performances will begin promptly at 7:00pm! All are welcome and the event is free of charge.

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Simon(e) van Saarloos: Playing Monogamy

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

On Sept 18th, join us for a conversation between Leni Zumas and Simon(e) van Saarloos about Simon(e)’s new book, Playing Monogamy.

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Amitav Ghosh

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

A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced to set out on an extraordinary journey; one that takes him from India to Los Angeles and Venice via a tangled route through the memories and experiences of those he meets along the way. Amitav Ghosh‘s Gun Island (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is a beautifully realized novel that effortlessly spans space and time – from the author of Sea of Poppies. It is the story of a world on the brink, of increasing displacement and unstoppable transition. But it is also a story of hope, of a man whose faith in the world and the future is restored by two…

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