THURSDAY 5/30 * Noelle Howey Noelle Howey was coming of age as a young woman just as her father was coming out as a transsexual. This is her memoir, and it’s not only an interesting story, but also well written and both funny and sad. Her book is called Dress Codes. Annie Bloom’s Books, 7834 […]
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Peter Bagge
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Buddy Bites the Bullet Peter Bagge (Fantagraphics Books) Hate Annual #1 Peter Bagge (Fantagraphics Books) Hate Annual #2 Peter Bagge (Fantagraphics Books) At the end of the last collection of Peter Bagge’s underground Hate comic books, Buddy Bites the Bullet!, dread-filled hipster Buddy Bradley’s on-again, off-again girlfriend Lisa tells him that she’s pregnant–by him. Buddy, […]
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THURSDAY 5/23 Jimmy McDonough Meet and hear the writer of Neil Young’s biography, called Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography. Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, 238-1668, 7:30 pm, free * Silent Theft: The Plunder of Our Common Wealth David Bollier writes about the collaboration of government and corporations to give away the collective property […]
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Nomy Lamm
Intercourse 2002: a Sex and Gender Spoken Word Recipe for Revolution Nomy Lamm May 25 Hollywood Theater It’s rare that one artist can venture into more than one medium and still stay sharp, but somehow Nomy Lamm has done it. She’s working on her first book, has written a fantastic play/musical collaboration with The Need […]
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Camden Joy
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Camden Joy Reading Frenzy Thurs, May 16 Some rock critics are good because they’re knowledgeable, or funny, or cutting. Camden Joy is good because he writes about himself. But it’s not just that, like a lot of writers, Joy occasionally references himself or uses the first person; he superimposes himself onto the rockstars and cultural […]
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THURSDAY 5/16 Lost Archives of Jimi Hendrix The writer of this book, Steven Roby, was the editor or one of the biggest Hendix fan zines in the world, Straight Ahead . This biography writes all about unknown recorded sessions and other film/video stuff. Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, 238-1668, 7:30 pm, free […]
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THURSDAY 5/9 April Henry Learning to Fly is the story of Free Meeker, who switches identities with a dead hitchiker. Annie Bloom’s Books, 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, 246-0053, 7:30 pm, free Henry Louis Gates Jr. Henry Louis Gates Jr has written a significant amount of material which applies postmodern theory to African American history and […]
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Trosper
Trosper Story by Jim Woodring Music by Bill Frisell (Fantagraphics) In 1968, a 14-year-old Jim Woodring visited a surrealism retrospective at the Los Angeles County Art Museum, and the experience planted the seed for his eventual entrance into the world of comics. Woodring began his career in 1980, when he took a job at Ruby […]
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THURSDAY 5/2 Stuart Woods Woods is the author of The Short Forever , the story of a murder investigator named Stone Barrington. Powell’s-Beaverton, 8725 SW Cascade Ave, 643-3131, SATURDAY 5/4 Celtic Storytelling A Celtic storyteller named Gwion will be continuing in his 15-year tradition and performing the second branch of the Mabinogi, a medieval Welsh […]
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Amber Gayle
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Amber Gayle WHO: Amber Gayle, who lives in Southern Oregon, publishes the zine My Evil Twin Sister, with her twin sister, Stacy Wakefield. She’ll read from Notta Lotta Love Stories on Thursday, May 2, at Reading Frenzy, 921 SW Oak, 274-1449. Amber’s writing is very personal and intimate, with much integrity, while still being vivid […]
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THURSDAY 4/25 David Sedaris David Sedaris, the hilarious, ridiculous writer, has once again attracted a cult following, as the show is already sold out. Perhaps you can mug someone on the way in and steal their ticket. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall/Literary Arts, SW Broadway & Main, 7:30 pm, $23 Madeline Drexler Science-journalist Madeline Drexler will […]
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Nelson’s Run
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Nelson’s Run Peter Bacho (Willowgate Press) Peter Bacho has published four books. His latest, a wild, churning, political satire of America’s long, complex, colonial relationship with the Philippines, Nelson’s Run, has a lot of sex. Sexy sex and scary sex, and some of the sex scenes reminded me of, um, porn. Was porn an inspiration? […]