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Pageturners Author Visit: Omar El Akkad

Holgate Meeting Room 7905 SE Holgate Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Engage in stimulating conversation about books, exchange perspectives about characters and plot, and get to know your neighbors. Meet the author! Read American War by Omar El Akkad. What might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself? A second American Civil War set several decades into the future and a devastating plague finds one family caught deep in the middle of this unsettling work of fiction. Pageturners is sponsored by Friends of the Library.

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Daniel H. Wilson & Omar El Akkad in Conversation With Wendy N. Wagner

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United States

In these tumultuous times, in our deeply divided country, many people are angry, frightened, and hurting. Knowing that imagining a brighter tomorrow has always been an act of resistance, Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams invited an extraordinarily talented group of writers to share stories that explore new forms of freedom, love, and justice. The result is A People’s Future of the United States (One World), a collection of 25 stories that blend the dark and the light, the dystopian and the utopian. Contributors Daniel H. Wilson, author of The Clockwork Dynasty, and Omar El Akkad, author of American War, will be joined for a conversation by Wendy N. Wagner, author of An Oath of Dogs.

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Why There Are Words: Peace and Justice

Leach Botanical Garden 6704 SE 122nd Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Why There Are Words – Portland returns for a second year of outstanding live author readings February 17, 2019 (Sunday) at 4pm, at  Leach Botanical Garden in SE Portland. The following six acclaimed authors will read on the theme of Peace and Justice. Doors open at 4PM; readings begin at 4:15. $10 at the door; proceeds to benefit Leach Botanical Garden. Donations to WTAW, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, are always welcome. For details, including readers’ full bios, see whytherearewords.com/pdx. Stevan Allred lives in Portland, Oregon, halfway between Hav and the Isle of the Dead, which is to say he spends as much time burrowed into his imagination as he possibly can. The Alehouse at the End of the World, his debut novel, was published by Forest…

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Orpheus 2019 Night Two

Fort Vancouver High School 5700 East 18th Street, Vancouver, WA, United States

Featured writers: Jude Brewer, Omar El Akkad, Jewels Pedersen, Laura Moulton, Ben Parzybok.      

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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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Margaret Atwood In Conversation with Omar El Akkad

Keller Auditorium 222 SW Clay St, Portland, OR, United States

Literary Arts is proud to present an evening with Margaret Atwood, acclaimed novelist, poet, literary critic, and activist. Join us as we celebrate the publication of The Testaments, Atwood’s hugely anticipated sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, coming September 10, 2019. Atwood will be in conversation with award-winning journalist and Oregon author Omar El Akkad. The appearance of Atwood’s acclaimed dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale in 1985, and the current Emmy-award winning television series based on the novel, have created a cultural phenomenon. Interviewed live on stage by Omar El Akkad, the conversation will span the length of Atwood’s remarkable career, her diverse range of works, and why she has returned to her seminal story, 34 years later. Join us for an unmissable and intimate evening…

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$15 – $85

Jeff VanderMeer in Conversation With Omar El Akkad

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

A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A giant leviathan of a fish, centuries old, who hides a secret, remembering a past that may not be its own. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against an all-powerful corporation. Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts (MCD/FSG) presents a City with no name of its own, where in the shadow of the all-powerful Company, lives human and otherwise converge in terrifying and miraculous ways. At stake: the fate of the future, the fate of Earth – all the Earths. VanderMeer will be joined in conversation…

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