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(503) 228-4651Colin Dickey
Fri., Nov. 20, 7:30 p.m.Readings
Colin Dickey's Cranioklepty is an illustrated history of grave-digging for the skulls of famous people. (Yeah, it's a thing.)
Curtis White
Sat., Nov. 21, 7 p.m.Readings
Author and professor Curtis White headlines the third installment of Disjecta's Arty Words series, with musical guest Adrian Orange & the Child Slave Rebellion. White's books include The Spirit of Disobedience, The Middle Mind, and Memories of My Father Watching TV, but tonight he takes on the sustainability craze (via his righteous indignation). Up your admission to $20 and receive Curtis White's recent book about the environmental movement, The Barbaric Heart, a copy of lit-mag Tin House, a Tin House tote bag and a beer. It's the perfect survival pack if you ever get shipwrecked on a park bench. $8
Daniel Bailey & Matthew Simmons
Sun., Nov. 22, 7 p.m.Readings
Ampersand Bookstore & Gallery holds their first-ever reading tonight—two Seattle-based authors read from books of poetry and prose.
Amy Goodman
Mon., Nov. 23, 7:30 p.m.Readings
What do we want? Democracy! When do we want it? (Etc.) Amy Goodman's appearance tonight is a benefit for KBOO community radio. $10-25
Ben Thompson: Badass
Mon., Nov. 23, 7:30 p.m.Readings
Ben Thompson presents Badass: A Relentless Onslaught of the Toughest Warlords, Vikings, Samurai, Pirates, Gunfighters, and Military Commanders to Ever Live. You know what's really badass? Illustrated compendiums, that's what.
Kayte Terry: Appliqué Your Way
Mon., Nov. 23, 7:30 p.m.Readings
Craftwork virtuoso Kayte Terry introduces her newest user-friendly guide, Appliqué Your Way, including 35 stitching projects.
Cindy Anderson
Tue., Nov. 24, 7:30 p.m.Readings
Cindy Anderson reads from town and country companions to drink drinking. Oregon Wine Country Guidebook includes over 200 area wineries for rural drinking, and the 2010 version of Portland Happy Hour Guidebook facilitates cheap drinking within the confines of a denser population (between the hours of late afternoon and early evening).
Sarah Baker Munro
Wed., Nov. 25, 7:30 p.m.Readings
Sarah Baker Munro's Timberline Lodge: The History, Art, and Craft of an American Icon tells the story of this Oregon National Landmark through pictures, historical records, and profiles of the artists and artworks it has hosted through its many years.
Customer Appreciation Sale
Fri., Nov. 27, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.Readings
Support the local library by purchasing cheap books, CDs, DVDs, and more at this once-a-year BLOWOUT sale, offering PALINDROMIC discounts—55 percent off everything in the store (over 20,000 items)! The Title Wave Used Bookstore is a volunteer-run shop, happy to pass its earnings along to the Multnomah Country Library, which in turn is happy to lend out books that you can lose, pretend to have never checked out, and find one day at another used book store sale. Join the wave!
Sci-Fi Authorfest III Booksigning
Sun., Nov. 29, 4 p.m.Readings
So many sci-fi writers in one place, there will either be an uprising of delusional adherents or an inter-faith battle of the fantasy universes. Definitely one of the two though. The sci-fi deluge includes Lilith Saintcrow (Flesh Circus); Jay Lake (Green), Thomas Harlan (Land of the Dead); David Levine (Space Magic); Brent Weeks (Beyond the Shadows); Camille Alexa (Push of the Sky); Barb and J. C. Hendee (In Shade and Shadow); Devon Monk (Magic in the Shadows); Brenda Cooper (Wings of Creation); Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Diving into the Wreck); Dean Wesley Smith (numerous Star Trek novels); Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Fall of Light); Mike Shepherd (Undaunted); A. M. Dellamonica (Indigo Springs); Alma Alexander (Cybermage); Louise Marley (the Singers of Nevya series); Ru Emerson (the Bard's Tale series); and Pyr senior editor Lou anders.
Fearless Critic Portland Restaurant Guide
Tue., Dec. 1, 7:30 p.m.Readings
Nothing scares the undercover reviewers of the Fearless Critic Portland Restaurant Guide, not a whole pig's head, not a brusque waitperson, not even a write-up that flambés a local restaurant. Behind anonymity, there is truth, and this book has over 300 pages of it, plus tons of lists for reference and a special vegetarian section. Please direct all complaints about the content to editor/whipping girl Robin Goldstein at this reading.
Katharine Harmon
Wed., Dec. 2, 7:30 p.m.Readings
In The Map as Art, Katharine Harmon compiles 360 pieces of colorful, map-related art from Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, Olafur Eliasson, Vik Muniz, and more who have been inspired by the natural beauty of paths and organizations of space. Each page is like a single degree in a full-circle tour of cartography gone wild.
Michael Shay, Ric Vrana, Roger Traux & David Matthews
Wed., Dec. 2, 7-9 p.m.Readings
Oregon male writers come from all different backgrounds, and this month's First Wednesday reading and wine tasting presented by Oregon Literary Review celebrates their single-sex diversity with Michael Shay, a photographer who was trained as a writer both undergrad and grad at the Iowa Writers' Workshop; Ric Vrana, a planner for TriMet, whose poetry is inspired by a life-long fascinaton with geography; and Rogers Truax, a metaphysical gnat whose work, like Shay's, has been featured in Broken Word: The Alberta Street Anthology Vol. II
A Whole New Subject
Wed., Dec. 2, 7 p.m.Readings
Literary Arts celebrates its annually released anthology of student writing, A Whole New Subject. Each year it showcases bright young talents from Portland public high schools (and some alternative schools too) involved in the Writers in Schools (WITS) program, an apprenticeship of sorts with a local professional author. "Always provocative, always endearing," says the press release, and I don't doubt it for a second. The release party features readings from students, their high school teachers, the aforementioned professionals. The editors of the Burnside Review, Glimmer Train, and Tin House will be on hand to stroke their beards and reflect on the poetry, prose, and comic arts up for show.
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