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Indies First/Small Business Saturday

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

It's Indies First Day AND Small Business Saturday, and we are going to have so much fun!! We have more than a dozen local authors joining us. You'll be able to talk to them about their books and purchase signed or personalized books, as well as hear about what books they're particularly excited about giving and getting this holiday season. Here are some of the great authors who will be joining us on Saturday. It's possible more might pop in -- we are blessed with a richness of wonderful writing talent in our city. We appreciate them taking the time to hang out with us and with you! Stevan Allred (12 to 2): Author of the just-published novel The Alehouse at the End of the…

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Reading: Willy Vlautin and Jonathan Evison

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes Pacific Northwest authors Willy Vlautin and Jonathan Evison to read from the paperback editions of their latest novels. Willy Vlautin's Don't Skip Out on Me is about a young ranch hand who goes on a quest to become a champion boxer to prove his worth. Horace Hopper is a half-Paiute, half-Irish ranch hand who wants to be somebody. He's spent most of his life on the ranch of his kindly guardians, Mr. and Mrs. Reese, herding sheep alone in the mountains. But while the Reeses treat him like a son, Horace can't shake the shame he feels from being abandoned by his parents. He decides to leave the only loving home he’s known to prove his worth by training to become a…

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Pageturners Author Visit: Willy Vlautin

Multnomah County Library - St. Johns Library 7510 N Charleston Avenue Portland, OR 97203, 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 Don't Skip Out on Me by Willy Vlautin. Don’t Skip Out on Me is going to make your heart crumple into a little wad of paper and then open it back up into a perfect paper airplane sailing the skies from the hand of a boy. How does a bi-cultural man find a self when he’s been abandoned by his parents? He invents it, that’s how. No one anywhere writes as beautifully about people whose stories stay close to the dirt than Vlautin. Pageturners is sponsored by Friends of the Library.

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Tales from Home

Two Rivers Bookstore 8836 N Lombard Street, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for a special evening of tales from some of our amazing local authors! Kate Carroll De Gutes will lead the evening. Rene Denfeld will delight us with a selection from her own works. And Willy Vlautin will be treating us to a live performance of A Jocky's Christmas, a dark comedy about a misfit, overweight, alcoholic jockey whose career has dried up. After the reading, stick around for conversation and a book signing. Be sure to reserve your copies here: https://www.tworiversbooks.com/event/tales-home-home-town-author-reading Also participating will be: Matt Minicucci, Winner of the Oregon Book Award for Poetry {Small Gods} Author Taylor Zajonc Taylor Zajonc {The Maw} Martha Shelly {A Meteor Shower}, whose self-published book will be available for purchase in-shop at the event. AND! Rob…

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Willy Vlautin in Conversation With Chelsea Cain

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Award-winning author Willy Vlautin (The Motel Life, Lean on Pete) explores the impact of trickle-down greed and opportunism of gentrification on ordinary lives in his scorching new novel that captures the plight of a young woman pushed to the edge as she fights to secure a stable future for herself and her family. Barely 30, Lynette is exhausted. Saddled with bad credit and juggling multiple jobs, some illegally, she’s been diligently working to buy the house she lives in with her mother and developmentally disabled brother, Kenny. Portland’s housing prices have nearly quadrupled in 15 years, and the owner is giving them a good deal. Lynette knows it’s their last best chance to own their own home — and obtain the security they’ve never had.…

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Willy Vlautin, author of “The Night Always Comes,” with Maria Semple

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Novelist and musician Willy Vlautin, author of "The Night Always Comes" appears in conversation with Maria Semple About this Event An appearance by Willy Vlautin is always a special occasion for us, and, like you, we've been looking forward to his new novel, The Night Always Comes (Harper). He'll appear in conversation with Seattle writer, Maria Semple. Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores the impact of trickle-down greed and opportunism of gentrification on ordinary lives in this scorching novel that captures the plight of a young woman pushed to the edge as she fights to secure a stable future for herself and her family. Barely thirty, Lynette is exhausted. Saddled with bad credit and juggling multiple jobs, some illegally, she’s been diligently working to buy the…

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