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Love Never Dies, a Spooky Salon of Hellishly Poetic Proportions

American Legion Post 134 2104 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR, United States

Love Never Dies, a Spooky Salon of Hellishly Poetic Proportions in Portland, OR! Presented by Spiderweb Salon, University of Hell, Spooky Girlfriend Press, and Thoughtcrime Press. Join us at everyone's favorite American Legion Post 134 in the heart of the Alberta Arts District. Free and open to the public. Contact: Joshua Gaines Spiderweb Salon + University of Hell + Spooky Girlfriend Press + Thoughtcrime Press present LOVE NEVER DIES, an evening of poetry and performance in Portland, OR! Location: Post 134 in Portland, 2104 NE Alberta St. Cover: FREE, but we encourage you to please buy a book or get a poet a drink! Alexandra Naughton Amber Nelson Ben Clark + Josh Gaines Brandon Courtney Brenna Kischuk Chelsea Fiddyment courtney marie Ellyn Touchette Eve Connell…

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Liz Scott

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

Liz Scott's memoir, This Never Happened (University of Hell), goes in search of the answers to the mysteries of her family. In her relentless quest to uncover the truth, she mines photographs and letters, leaving no one, including herself, unexamined. This is a spare work, alternately heartbreaking and darkly comic. In the end, it’s about the struggle to clear away pain to make room for compassion, and the challenge of making peace with questions that will never be answered.

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Liz Scott in conversation with Rene Denfeld

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

We are thrilled to welcome Liz Scott and Rene Denefeld to the store at 7 pm on Monday, April 29th. In her memoir This Never Happened, Liz Scott goes in search of the answers to the mysteries of her family. She mines photographs and letters, leaving no one, including herself, unexamined.“This is where I live -- somewhere smack between pity and rage, between empathy and indictment. And as hard as I look, I still can’t find a place between mercy and pain.” Scott has creatively assembled the text, including bulleted and numbered lists, correspondence, and photographs, which together tell Scott’s family history from as many angles as possible. In the end, the book is about the struggle to clear away pain to make room for…

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This Never Happened – Liz Scott

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for a reading from Liz Scott’s new memoir, This Never Happened. This Never Happened is a genre-bending memoir, told in a non-linear way using photographs, letters, and lists. This is a spare work…alternatively heartbreaking and darkly comic. Like an archeological dig, Scott’s memoir goes in search of the answers to the mysteries of her family. In her relentless quest to uncover the truth, she leaves no one, including herself, unexamined. In the end, it is about the challenge of making peace with questions that will never be answered and the struggle to forgive. Liz Scott has been a practicing psychologist for 40 years, helping clients to identify life themes and make sense of the puzzle of their lives. She has brought this focus to her…

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Summer Five-Minute Reading Marathon

The Stacks Coffeehouse 1831 N. Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for our quarterly series, the Five-Minute Reading Marathon! All afternoon, authors will be sharing five-minute readings from their work. List of authors and line-up to be announced. Join us for our Summer Five-Minute Reading Marathon! Every half an hour or every fifteen minutes, another author will get up on stage and read for five minutes. You'll hear poetry, short stories, essays, and excerpts from longer pieces, with time in between to talk or get up and move around. Our summer event will feature Liz Scott, Katie Guinn, Kalpana Krishnamurthy, Steve Arndt, David Naimon, Lucie Bonvalet, Omar El Akkad, Gail Tupper, Samm Saxby, and Ramiza Koya. Hope to see you there!

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Sarah Townsend and Liz Scott Reading and in Conversation about their Memoirs

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

Authors Sarah Townsend and Liz Scott in conversation about their memoirs. Setting the Wire by Sarah Townsend is a memoir of postpartum psychosis and a meditation on containment: what we hold and what holds us together. A lyric exploration of motherhood, mental illness, and familial ties, Sarah Townsend’s debut work weaves together personal anecdote, film, music, visual art, and psychology. Setting the Wire is a visceral reflection on the experience of fragmentation as a young psychotherapist and new mother. Liz Scott’s memoir, This Never Happened, goes in search of the answers to the mysteries of her family. In her relentless quest to uncover the truth, she mines photographs and letters, leaving no one, including herself, unexamined. This is a spare work, alternately heartbreaking and darkly…

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Sarah Townsend and Liz Scott Reading in Conversation about their Memoirs

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

Authors Sarah Townsend and Liz Scott in conversation about their memoirs. Thursday, June 27,  2019 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Setting the Wire by Sarah Townsend is a memoir of postpartum psychosis and a meditation on containment: what we hold and what holds us together. A lyric exploration of motherhood, mental illness, and familial ties, Sarah Townsend’s debut work weaves together personal anecdote, film, music, visual art, and psychology. Setting the Wire is a visceral reflection on the experience of fragmentation as a young psychotherapist and new mother. Liz Scott’s memoir, This Never Happened, goes in search of the answers to the mysteries of her family. In her relentless quest to uncover the truth, she mines photographs and letters, leaving no one, including herself, unexamined. This is a spare work, alternately…

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The Book Burger Reading

Belmont Books 3415 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, United States

On August 10th, a group of local authors across multiple genres invite you to spend the evening with them. It's an invite unlike many you'll come across, wherein we want you to meet us for a bite to eat at Nick's Famous Coney Island to celebrate the last day of Burger Week before a reading at Belmont Books. After each author reads for about ten minutes, we'll head over to Rendez Vous down the block for a cocktail or tea. What we want is a community of readers who get to know the authors, find new ones, and branch outside their favorite genre–if not just to tell a friend. Belmont Books is a lovely, if not smaller bookstore. That means you we may be at…

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Fall Five-Minute Reading Marathon

The Stacks Coffeehouse 1831 N. Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for the Fall Five-Minute Reading Marathon! All afternoon, between 1-6pm, a series of fabulous local writers will get up on stage and read for five minutes. Stay for one or two, or all afternoon. 1:30 — Leni Zumas 2pm — Elizabeth Pickard 2:30pm — Aaron Gilbreath 3pm — Harold Johnson 3:15pm — Stevan Allred 3:30pm — Nikki Schulak 3:45pm — Missy Ladygo 4pm — Michael Keefe 4:15pm — Liz Prato 4:30pm — Liz Scott 4:45pm — Kalimah Abioto 5pm — Beth Wood 5:15pm — Laura Lampton Scott 5:30pm — jayy dodd 5:45pm — Alexa Weinstein

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Literary BINGO with Lilla Lit

CENTRL Office Downtown 1155 SW Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

Candy will be flung, prizes will be won: Come bingo with Lilla Lit! We’re back with more literary bingo madness courtesy an all-star lineup of Portland writers. Who will read a flashback? A sonnet? The word “panty”? Mark your cards and claim your prizes! Your bingolicious hosts: Lilla Lit coordinators Virginia Bellis Brandabur and Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet. This year's brave readers: Rebecca Claren (Kickdown), Kate Gray (For Every Girl), Apricot Irving (The Gospel of Trees), Missy Ladygo, Gigi Little (The Untold Gaze), Jessica Mehta (Savagery), Liz Scott (This Never Happened), and Natalie Serber (Community Chest). 7 PM • CENTRL Office Downtown • 1155 SW Morrison https://www.facebook.com/events/502956033891541/

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