Reema Zaman
Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United States
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Readings
Chameleon – Tasche Laine
Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United StatesRecently divorced Tara Spencer is a devoted single mom to her eleven-year-old daughter and is still healing from her failed marriage of fourteen years. As she embarks on an exciting new career, the last thing she needs is a man in her life. Then she meets the alluring Dr. Geoffrey Jensen, a bedazzling psychotherapist who isn’t what he seems. Adept at manipulation, Geoffrey toys with Tara’s mind, compelling her to change for him. When she discovers his shocking secret, will she find the courage to get out in time or will it be too late? Tasche Laine has worked as a journalist, newspaper columnist, teacher, and studio teacher to child actors in Hollywood. She has authored two novels: the 2018 International Book Award winner for…
Free
Austin Kleon
Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United StatesIn Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, Austin Kleon gave readers the key to unlock their creativity and showed them how to share it. Now he completes his trilogy with his most inspiring work yet. Keep Going (Workman) shows you how to stay true to and focused on your own creative vision when the world seems out of control. In 10 illustrated, inspiring chapters, Kleon offers advice, stories, and anecdotes that teach you how to persist in doing work that helps make a world worth living in.
Free
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Powell's Books on Hawthorne 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR, United StatesNothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by 24/7 data productivity… doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in How to Do Nothing (Melville House), a field guide to doing nothing. Far from the anti-technology screed or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often, How to Do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism.
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Eric Flamm, Donald J. Mackie, Benjamin Lederer (Inkwater Press)
Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United StatesJoin us for our monthly reading by authors from Inkwater Press! Portland Zionists Unite! and Other Stories, by Eric Flamm: These raw, interlocking short stories—set in Israel, Portland, and Thailand—explore the complex reality of modern Israel, its recent history, and what it represents to its citizens and foreign-born Jews. With a range of different narrators—three Israel Defense Force soldiers, a hawkish retiree, a synagogue executive director, and a young video game fan—each story viscerally speaks to the contrasts between Israel’s founding mythology and current political realities. Each narrator’s perspective is different, but collectively the voices engage with a growing concern in US Jewish communal life: how to countenance an Israel that increasingly doesn’t reflect the values of American Jews. When Push Comes to Shove: A…
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Gobshite Quarterly # 33/34!
Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United StatesThis issue features: Leanne Grabel on Sylvia Plath's last weekend - Jennifer Robin travelling many dimensions of strange on the Portland bus system - Poe Ballantine on the manic under-achievements of FancyPants McTeo - Recent poetry & prose from Lithuania, Croatia, Russia, and Switzerland. Each piece appears in English & at least 3 other languages.
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Unchartable Release + Reading
Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United StatesJoin Portland Review as we launch the 2019 issue, Unchartable: On Environmental Unknowns. The first themed anthology in our 63-year publishing history, we've called on an international set of writers and artists to contemplate, create, and "grapple with the environment in the widest sense of the word." This event will feature readings by 2019 contributors Tracy Daugherty, Amalia Gladhart, Brooke Matson, and Vuslat D. Katsanis; Vuslat D. Katsanis will be reading a translation of Öznur Kutkan's work. The event will also include an author discussion of the Unchartable theme, moderated by Portland Review's Jennifer Cie. The issue can be purchased at the time of the event or through online pre-order: http://portlandreview.org/unchartable-on-environmental-unknowns/ Tracy Daugherty is the author of four novels, six short story collections, two books…
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Graphic Novel Event with Graham Annabel
Green Bean Books 1600 NE Alberta Street, Portland, OR, United StatesLocal artist returns to Green Bean Books with Peter & Ernesto: The Lost Sloths on Saturday, April 13th at 1pm. The unlikely duo Peter and Ernesto are the best of friends and back better and funnier than ever. When a hurricane destroys their favorite tree, they're off on their biggest adventure yet in search of a new home! A signing will follow the reading.
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Jeremy & Audrey Roloff
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United StatesLittle People, Big World stars Jeremy and Audrey Roloff share what they learned from their own dating journey in order to equip readers to build godly relationships from their first date to saying "I do" and beyond. In A Love Letter Life (Zondervan), they share vulnerable insights from their own journey, offer perspective on male and female differences in dating, tackle tough topics like purity, give their nine rules for fighting well, suggest fun ideas for connection in a world of technology, and provide fresh advice on independence and boundaries as you seek the love you long for. Please note: A purchase of the Roloffs’ A Love Letter Life is required to join the signing line.
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Peach Blossom Poetry Series: Clemens Starck
Lan Su Chinese Garden 239 NW Everett St, Portland, OR, United StatesChinese gardens in China and Lan Su Chinese Garden in Portland are filled with poetic inscriptions: as text, calligraphy, engravings and plaques. Inspired by the culture of literature in Chinese gardens, prolific poets share their work with garden visitors every Saturday in April at 3 p.m. Included with Lan Su membership or admission; no registration is required. April 6 A. Molotkov April 13 Clemens Starck April 20 Stella Jeng Guillory April 27 Joni Renee Whitworth About the Presenters: Born in Russia, A. Molotkov moved to the US in 1990 and switched to writing in English in 1993. His poetry collections are The Catalog of Broken Things, Application of Shadows, and Synonyms for Silence (Acre Books/Cincinnati Review, 2019). Published by Kenyon, Iowa, Antioch, Massachusetts, Atlanta, Bennington and…
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