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Ted Chiang in Conversation With Daniel H. Wilson

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

From Ted Chiang, acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others – the basis for the Academy Award-nominated film Arrival – comes a groundbreaking new collection of short fiction: nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories. These are tales that tackle some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only Chiang could imagine. Exhalation (Knopf) is Chiang at his best: profound, sympathetic, and revelatory. Chiang will be joined in conversation by Daniel H. Wilson, author of The Clockwork Dynasty and Robopocalypse.

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Readers Choice Book Club

Books Around the Corner 40 NW 2nd Street, Gresham, OR, United States

We are supporting local authors this month and will discuss Strongly Worded Women edited by Sydney Culpepper. Not a Pipe Publishing is one of the only companies in the world to accept author Kamila Shamsie's challenge to only publish women during 2018, making it the Year of Publishing Women. This collection of the best short story submissions showcases the talent of 18 amazing writers across genres who all demonstrate the strength of their voices. Available at a 15% discount to order if you plan on attending the book club.

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Karen Russell in Conversation With Leni Zumas

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

Pulitzer Prize finalist Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner lives is on full display in the eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories in her new collection, Orange World and Other Stories (Knopf). Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master, showcasing Russell’s extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination. Russell will be joined in conversation by Leni Zumas, author of Red Clocks.

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Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

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

Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers for the rest of their lives – but it doesn’t happen as frequently for all of us. In her timely anthology, Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves (Ballantine), “well-read black girl” Glory Edim brings together original essays by some of our best black female writers and creative voices to shine a light on how important it is that everyone – regardless of gender, race, religion, or abilities – can find themselves in literature. Whether it’s learning about the complexities of femalehood from Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison, finding a new type of love in The Color Purple, or…

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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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Ron Rash in Conversation With Colum McCann

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Ron Rash has long been a revered presence in the landscape of American letters. A virtuosic novelist, poet, and story writer, he evokes the beauty and brutality of the land, the relentless tension between past and present, and the unquenchable human desire to be a little bit better than circumstances would seem to allow (to paraphrase Faulkner). In the 10 stories of his new collection, In the Valley: Stories and a Novella Based on Serena (Doubleday), Rash spins a haunting allegory of the times we live in — rampant capitalism, the severing of ties to the natural world in the relentless hunt for profit, the destruction of body and soul with pills meant to mute our pain — and yet within this world he illuminates…

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#Merge by Rachel Chenven Powers: Writers Read from the Collection-In-Progress

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Mark your calendars! On March 18 at 7 p.m. PST a great lineup of alumni from the PSU MFA program will introduce you to the characters of Rachel Chenven Powers's in-progress short story collection, #Merge. Don’t miss hearing Joshua James Amberson, Karleigh Frisbie Brogan, Catherine Johnson, Timothy Day, Mike Schepps, Lauren Hobson, and Katie Borak bring Powers's #Merge characters to life! Email the author at rchenven@gmail.com for Zoom info. Thanks to generous funding from the Regional Arts & Culture Council!

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POST Launch and Release Party

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

RSVP to join us in celebration on May 8th at 7PM (PDT) for an online reading event. Recommended donation is $5 but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Alissa Hattman will be joined by TJ Acena, Chalaundrai Grant, Hannah Pass, Lucie Bonvalet, Chrys Tobey and lark pien ~~~ Elevator Pitch: Love letters as postcards to people, spaces, and objects. The Details: "POST" is an epistolary collection of postcards written by Alissa Hattman during the American Short Fiction Constellation Challenge. This was a month-long writing experiment that took place in November 2020. In the collection, Alissa explores distance from loved ones, spaces, and objects with intense depth and nuance. She offers poignant observations about our relationship to the passage of time, memories, and ideas. The…

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Two Rivers Virtual Book Club June

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

For June we will be reading What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver https://www.tworiversbooks.com/book/9780679723059 In his second collection, including the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman, Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature—a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark. Check your email for the Zoom link!

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Livestream Reading: Sarah Dougher

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland writer and professor Sarah Dougher, a contributor to Tick Tock: Essays on Becoming a Parent After 40. She will be in conversation with the book's editor, Vicki Breitbart, and OHSU reproductive endocrinologist Paula Amato, MD. Watch the recording here: https://youtu.be/ftZN8Wa3L94 If you would like a signed or personalized copy of this book, please leave a note in the comments section of your order! About Tick Tock: In this groundbreaking collection of essays, poems, and creative nonfiction, more than twenty-nine writers offer witty and incisive insight into the unique experience of being or having an older parent in today's world. By turns raw, funny, tender, and wise, these stories reshape our understanding of the social factors that impact later parenthood, honor the…

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