THURSDAY 7/22
* Booklover’s Trivia Night
Barnes & Noble, that fun-loving corporate megalith, has created its own version of Trivial Pursuit, just for book lovers! Celebrate tonight with other fans of book trivia, answering questions in categories like children’s literature, classics, and nonfiction. Prizes and refreshments will ensue. Barnes & Noble (Jantzen Beach), 1720 N Jantzen Beach, 283-2800, 7:30 pm
Adriana Trigiani
The overtly romantic author of the Big Stone Gap trilogy presents her new novel Queen of the Big Time, about the torpid love life of an Italian girl living in rural Pennsylvania. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651, 7:30 pm
TUESDAY 7/27
Bob Welch
University of Oregon professor Welch presents American Nightingale, the story Frances Slanger, the first American nurse to die after the landings in Normandy. Barnes & Noble (Jantzen Beach), 1720 N Jantzen Beach, 283-2800, 7:30 pm
Kathleen Dean Moore
Essayist Moore presents The Pine Island Paradox, a collection of works that finds connections between the love we have for our families, and the places in which we love them. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726, 7 pm
* Hank Stuever
Washington Post writer Stuever is adept at digging out the quirkiest details from whatever situations interest him. He has the dream job: getting paid to write introspective essays about whatever he feels like, be it a wedding in El Paso, trailer parks, or the Oklahoma City bombing. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651, 7:30 pm
WEDNESDAY 7/28
* Shadow Divers
Here’s a cool sounding story: the true tale of two deep sea divers who risked their lives to solve the mystery of 53 missing German soldiers who drowned during World War II. Author Robert Kurson will be reading and is sure to be fascinating in person. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651, 7:30 pm
Grassroots Journalism By & For the People
The advent of internet technology is forever changing mass media as we know it. Learn all about it from Dan Gillmore, author of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People. Powell’s Technical books, 33 NW Park Ave, 228-3906, 7:30 pm