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Mark Schorr Book Signing!

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

Mark Schorr Book Signing Saturday, June 25, 1 to 2 pm Please drop by on Saturday, June 25, between 1 and 2 pm to meet Portland author Mark Schorr and get a signed copy of his latest book--his 12th!-- The Master Mind. When geeky Tom Lord tries to stop an attempted assault, he is in over his head. He's getting beatdown until he is saved with ease by the near victim's sister, Diana Wynne. Impressed by each other's bravery and different skill sets, the two become an awkward couple.Wynne is intrigued but nervous about her new friend's paranoid claims that he has ESP and a monomaniacal researcher has been pursuing him for decades. But after a brutal attempted kidnapping, she realizes that Lord's life is…

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Michael Pollan in Conversation With Dave Miller / TICKETED EVENT

Newmark Theatre 1111 SW Broadway Ave., Portland, OR, United States

From Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, comes a radical challenge to how we think about drugs, and an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants — and the equally powerful taboos. Of all the things humans rely on plants for — sustenance, beauty, medicine, fragrance, flavor, fiber — surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. Take coffee and tea: People around the world rely on caffeine to sharpen their minds. But we do not usually think of caffeine as a drug, or our daily use as an addiction, because it is legal and socially acceptable.…

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Literary Arts at Pickathon 2022

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Literary Arts has partnered with Pickathon to feature author readings and a live recording of our radio show and podcast, The Archive Project. Authors featured on the Windmill Stage, Sunday, August 7 from 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Omar El Akkad WHAT STRANGE PARADISE Santi Elijah Holley MURDER BALLADS Michelle Ruiz Keil SUMMER IN THE CITY Jules Ohman BODY GRAMMAR Jon Raymond DENIAL Justin Taylor RIDING WITH THE GHOST Cecily Wong KALEIDOSCOPE 12:00 p.m. in The Lucky Barn: Jon Raymond and Dao Strom in conversation with Anis Mojgani for The Archive Project. When artists explore different genres or mediums for themself, what does that process look like? Are the differing explorations in conflict with one another, or in conversation? Do they aid and abet each other? Hinder? Or perhaps…

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Lidia Yuknavitch in Conversation with Omar El Akkad

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

What a thrill to be hosting two multiple-time Oregon Book Award winners, Lidia Yuknavitch and Omar El Akkad, in conversation about the new novel from Yuknavitch, Thrust, recently published by Riverhead Books/PRH. Lidia Yuknavitch is the National Bestselling author of the novels The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award's Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader's Choice Award, the novel Dora: A Headcase, and a critical book on war and narrative, Allegories Of Violence (Routledge). Her widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water, published by Hawthorne Books, was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader's…

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Matthew Dickman and Richard Tillinghast

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

We welcome back two highly regarded poets, Matthew Dickman of Portland and Richard Tillinghast of Hawaii and Tennessee, to read at 6 pm on Tuesday, September 13th. Dickman's new collection Husbandry was recently published by W.W. Norton. Written after a separation, during overwhelming single-fatherhood in the early days of Covid lockdowns, Husbandry is a love song from a father to his children. The poems refuse romantic notions of parenting and embrace all its mess, anguish, humor, fear, boredom, and warmth. They are composed entirely in vivid couplets that animate the various domestic pairs of broken-up parents, two sons, love and grief. Threading his anxieties with bright moments, the volume delights in seeing the world through the clear eyes of childhood and finds meaning in the…

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Yuvi Zalkow in Conversation with Brian Benson

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

Yuvi Zalkow is the author of I Only Cry with Emoticons (Red Hen Press, 2022) and A Brilliant Novel in the Works (MP Publishing, 2012). I Only Cry with Emoticons is a quirky comedy that reveals the cost of being disconnected--even when we're using a dozen apps on our devices to communicate--and an awkward man's search for real connections, on and offline. His short stories have been published in Glimmer Train, Narrative Magazine, Carve Magazine, Rosebud, The Los Angeles Review, and others. He received an MFA from Antioch University. You can find out too much information about him at yuvizalkow.com. He lives with his wife, kid, and grumpy cats in Portland, Oregon. Brian Benson grew up in the Northwoods of Wisconsin. He now lives in…

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Nate Schweber, This America of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild

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

In late 1940s America, few writers commanded attention like Bernard DeVoto. Alongside his brilliant wife and editor, Avis, DeVoto was a firebrand of American liberty, free speech, and perhaps our greatest national treasure: public lands. In This America of Ours, award-winning journalist Nate Schweber uncovers the forgotten story of a progressive alliance that altered the course of twentieth-century history and saved American wilderness—and our country’s most fundamental ideals—from ruin. Caroline Fraser, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, has this to say about the book: "Charming and absorbing, This America of Ours is the biography of a marriage between two lavishly talented characters, the witty and profane Avis DeVoto, who would become Julia Child's best friend and editor, and western…

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Liz Prato in Conversation with Aaron Gilbreath

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

We are thrilled to welcome back Liz Prato, in conversation with Aaron Gilbreath, to discuss her new book Kids in America: A Gen X Reckoning. In this revealing and provocative essay collection, Prato reveals a generation deeply affected by terrorism, racial inequality, rape culture, and mental illness, in an era when none of these issues were openly discussed. Part memoir, part journlistic exploration, Kids in America illuminates a generation often written off as cynical, sarcastic slackers, showing that its impact on culture and society is undeniable. Prato herself is a GenXer, growing up in Denver in the '70s and '80s, so the issues she explores here are issues of her generation, and a lot of the book is about coming to terms with things they…

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