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Why There Are Words: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

Corkscrew Wine Bar 1665 SE Bybee Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Join Why There Are Words – Portland (WTAW-PDX) for “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” November 17, from 4 to 6 pm at the Corkscrew Wine Bar. We’ll have an amazing afternoon with the following featured authors. Karen Bridges has a BA in Anthropology from University of Oregon and an MA in English and Creative Writing from Sonoma State University. Her flash fiction has appeared in Esthetic Apostle and Everyday Fiction, and her nonfiction essays on Virginia Woolf are published on the Faithless Feminist. She is currently working on a collection of short stories as well as a creative non-fiction hybrid project titled Unsettled. She lives in Portland, Oregon. Martha Conway‘s latest novel, The Underground River (Touchstone) was a New York Times Book Review…

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