Open Mic
Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United StatesThis is the open mic that used to be at The Attic Institute. Hosted by Sarah Bokich
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Readings
Reading: Space Toucans on the Patio
Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United StatesThe Space Cocaine gang is back for another spectacular reading event as they rebrand themselves as something more family-friendly: Space Toucans. Well, until they get to the stories, which are full of horrible hijinks, terrible people doing not-quite-as-terrible things, and talking animals. Join us for an evening of hilarity and awkward pauses.
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Book Release Party: Wounded Faith: Understanding and Healing from Spiritual Abuse
Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United StatesDr. Kenneth Garrett is a contributing author of a new book published by the International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA). "Wounded Faith" is the answer to a growing number of individuals, approaching ICSA for help in recovery from Christian churches that operate in a cult-like manner. Ken will present several readings and will be available to sign both this new book as well as his previous book (which was published during covid and wasn't able to be celebrated!)
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Poetry hosted by Igor Brezhnev
Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United StatesWe originally advertised this as a reading by Red O’Hare, but it turns out that Red will be out of town. Igor will bring us some great poetry regardless, someone or someones worth hearing from. Red is rescheduled for One Day.
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Launch of Paperback Edition of What Strange Paradise, Omar El Akkad
Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United StatesOmar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise We are thrilled to welcome Omar El Akkad back for the launch of the paperback edition of his award-winning second novel What Strange Paradise, published by Vintage/PRH. This novel, which looks at the global refugee crisis through the eys of a child, won the Giller Prize, the Oregon Book Award for Fiction, and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and was a finalist for The Aspen Words Literary Prize and Canada Reads 2022. More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives back in their homelands. But miraculously, someone has survived the passage: nine-year-old…
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David Duchovny in Conversation With Kristi Turnquist
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United StatesDavid Duchovny’s The Reservoir (Akashic) follows an unexceptional man in an exceptional time. We see our present-day pandemic world and New York City through the eyes of a former Wall Street veteran, Ridley, as he, in his enforced quarantined solitude, looks back upon his life. He examines his wins, his failures, the gnawing questions — his career, his divorce, his estranged daughter — and wonders what it all means and who he really is. Sitting and brooding night after night, gazing out his huge picture window high above the Central Park Reservoir, Ridley spots a flashing light in an apartment across the park as if a lonely quarantined person is signaling him in Morse code. His determination to find out who this mystery woman is,…
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Maria Adelmann in Conversation With Steve Almond
Online N/A, Portland, OR, United StatesIn present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue-bearded billionaire. Ruby, once devoured by a wolf, now wears him as a coat. Gretel questions her memory of being held captive in a house made of candy. Ashlee, the winner of a Bachelor-esque dating show, wonders if she really got her promised fairy tale ending. And Raina's love story will shock them all. Though the women start out wary of one another, judging each other’s stories, gradually they begin to realize that they may have more in common than they supposed… What really brought them here? What secrets will they reveal? And is it too late for them…
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Notes and Motes: improvised jazz and surreal poetry
Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United StatesNotes & Motes: The Vlatkovich Trio Plus One Michael Vlatkovich - trombone Chris Lee - percussion Shao Way Wu - Bass Casey Bush - poet
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Zach Mangan in Conversation With Jim Meehan
Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United StatesExplore the artistry of Japanese tea from cultivation to cup in Stories of Japanese Tea (Princeton Architectural Press), a comprehensive illustrated guide to the tea industry from Zach Mangan, founder of Kettl, a New York City- and Fukuoka, Japan-based tea and teaware company. Stories of Japanese Tea includes Japanese growers, their craft of tea-making, and how the tradition of tea has had an influence on cuisine, art, and health. Mangan’s visual exploration of one of the world's most popular beverages tells the stories of tea and tea-making in Japan: how it is grown, harvested, and processed, as well as how it is prepared and enjoyed. Through interviews with tea growers, information on health benefits from Dr. Andrew Weil, and amazing recipes from Japanese chefs and…
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Nick Seabrook
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United StatesA redistricting crisis is now upon us. Nick Seabrook’s surprising, compelling new book, One Person, One Vote (Pantheon) tells the history of how we got to this moment — from the Founding Fathers to today’s high-tech manipulation of election districts — and shows us as well how to protect our most sacred, hard-fought principle of one person, one vote. Here is THE book on gerrymandering for citizens, politicians, journalists, activists, and voters. Seabrook, an authority on constitutional and election law and an expert on gerrymandering, begins before our nation’s founding, with the rigging of American elections for partisan and political gain and the election meddling of George Burrington, the colonial governor of North Carolina, in retaliation against his critics. Seabrook writes of Patrick Henry, who…
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