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Virtual Book Launch – Walking the High Desert: Reading and Q&A with author Ellen Waterston

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join us to hear author Ellen Waterston read from her new title, Walking the High Desert: Encounters with Rural America along the Oregon Desert Trail. Uniting stories from across this diverse landscape—the humans and non-human voices—Waterston weaves an incomparable narrative of wonder, science, history and prose. Walking the High Desert is at once travelogue, meditation, memoir, history, philosophy, social commentary,  and commonplace book. It deeply explores the desert and the complex interplay of humans with this piece of the Intermountain West, calling out regional challenges that, more often than not, turn out to be issues the nation, and in some cases, the world, are grappling with. A selection of stunning images will accompany the reading. A live audience question and answer session will follow. In addition to Walking the High…

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Airlie Press: The Animal at Your Side Launch

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

East Coast book launch for The Animal at Your Side, featuring DC band All Her Muses and the art of Sara Everett Washington DC band All Her Muses will be performing at the virtual book launch for our new title The Animal at Your Side by Airlie Prize winner @ayil_m tomorrow, October 1, at 7pm ET.

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Carlos Motta: History’s Backrooms / Book Launch & Panel Discussion with Artist & Guests

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

CARLOS MOTTA: HISTORY'S BACKROOMS / BOOK LAUNCH & PANEL DISCUSSION WITH ARTIST & GUESTS Co-presented with P.P.O.W. Gallery Tuesday, December 8, 2020 / 4:00 PM PST / 7:00 PM EST Live-stream at picatv.org / Register in advance here / Closed-Captioned FREE / Donations will be shared among PICA, Pueblo Unido, and Voz Workers' Rights Education Project Carlos Motta–whose exhibition We Got Each Other's Back is currently on view at PICA–will be in conversation with special guests to mark the publication of History's Backrooms (Skira, 2020), the first comprehensive monograph of his work documenting nearly 20 years of the leading Colombian artist's interdisciplinary practice and prolific career exploring alternative and marginalized narratives, identities, communities, and their social and political contexts. Guest panelists Hendrik Folkerts (Dittmer Curator…

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Peepers Virtual Book Launch with Patrick Keck & Tim Goodyear

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for a virtual book launch celebrating the release of the new FU Press book, Peepers, with cartoonist Patrick Keck joined in conversation by artist and small press publisher Tim Goodyear! Streaming live at Facebook.com/fantagraphics on Thursday 1/21 at 6pm PST Order your copy via our host, Floating World Comics, and receive a free signed and sketched bookplate with your copy! Floating-world-comics.myshopify.com/products/peepers-hc About Peepers: This trippy sci-fi romance needs to be seen to be appreciated for its full psychedelic glory. Peepers needs to wake up, eat food, get drunk, and fly to space, because living out your life on top of someone else's brain may be all it's cracked up to be. Patrick Keck's graphic novel resides in a space vacated by the likes…

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Book Launch for Pobrecitos: New Poems by Eileen Davis Elliott

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

POBRECITOS A VIRTUAL EVENT FOR LOVERS OF WORDS AND IMAGES A Zoom event and book launch February 5, 2021 First Friday at 4:30 pm A collaborative work written by Eileen Davis Elliott Illustrated by Lily Engblom-Stryker and Ava Town, students and established creators sharing views of “ poor ones,” marginalized people of the world RSVP to Pobrecitos2021@gmail.com to receive a Zoom invitation, or for more information or call 360-433-8515. The poetry collection reflects many years of travel to far-off corners in the world by retired Vancouver, WA psychologist Eileen Davis Elliott. She sought the collaboration of two young artists who are studying at Vancouver School of Arts and Academics. The poems have been illustrated by Ava Town of Ridgefield and Lily Engblom-Stryker of Vancouver. The…

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Mannie Murphy + Stephen R. Bissette: I Never Promised You A Rose Garden Virtual Book Launch

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Portland artist Mannie Murphy celebrates the release of their new graphic memoir/history, I Never Promised You A Rose Garden. Mannie is joined in conversation by special guest Steve Bissette (Swamp Thing) to discuss the new book. Told in the style of an illustrated diary, I Never Promised You A Rose Garden begins as an affectionate reminiscence of the author’s 1990s teenage infatuation with the late actor River Phoenix but morphs into a remarkable, sprawling account of the city of Portland and state of Oregon’s dark history of white nationalism. Murphy details the relationship between white supremacist Tom Metzger (former KKK Grand Wizard and founder of the White Aryan Resistance) and the “Rose City” street kids like Ken Death that infiltrated Van Sant’s films — a…

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Book Launch: “Don’t Be Sad When I’m Gone” by Beatriz Dujovne

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Beatriz will be reading excerpts of her memoir. In this book all human emotions deserve a place of honor: life, death, morning, love, happiness, anger… The author’s American and Argentine cultures, the chronological time and Kairos, the more human time, reality and fantasy, are intertwined from Introduction to the Epilogue. We follow her to Buenos Aires from her present home in Portland, where she journeys to rekindle her life after the death of her life long husband. We partake in her internal and external experiences: those special spots where her love affair with him bloomed and took hold, her psychotherapy sessions with an Argentine psychoanalyst, the life force of the metropolis itself, and the warmth of its habitants. And we also witness how all these…

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June Broken Sleep Books Launch

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

June Broken Sleep Books Launch, featuring readings from: Jeff Alessandrelli - Nothing of the Month Club Jessica Mookherjee - Play Lists Lotte Mitchell Reford - and we were so far from the sea of course the hermit crabs were dead Alex Mazey - Sad Boy Aesthetics All books available at brokensleepbooks.com

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Proof of Stake Book Launch

Oregon Contemporary (formerly DISJECTA) 8371 N Interstate Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for the launch of Charles Valle's book-length poem, Proof of Stake: An Elegy, featuring readings by Charles, Ashley Toliver, Stephanie Adams-Santos and Robert Lashley.

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Ed Piskor & Jim Rugg: RED ROOM Virtual Book Launch

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Streaming live to Fantagraphics’ Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/fantagraphics Join New York Times bestselling artist Ed Piskor for a virtual book launch celebrating the release of his newest book, Red Room! Ed will sit down with fellow artist (and Cartoonist Kayfabe partner) Jim Rugg (Street Angel) to discuss the shadowy world of outlaw comics. Signed bookplate copies available to order via our virtual hosts, Floating World Comics in Portland, OR! PREORDER the book here and get a FREE signed bookplate by the author: https://floating-world-comics.myshopify.com/products/red-room-antisocial-network-tp-mr A cyberpunk, outlaw, splatterpunk masterpiece from the New York Times bestselling creator of Hip Hop Family Tree and X-Men: Grand Design! Aided by the anonymous dark web and nearly untraceable cryptocurrency, a criminal subculture has emerged. It livestreams murders as entertainment. Who are the…

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