THURSDAY 4/11 Linda Bierds Linda Bierds will be reading from her highly acclaimed poetry. Clackamas Community College (McLoughlin Theatre), 19600 S Molalla Ave, 657-6958, x2356, 1 pm, free New user orientation The IPRC is an amazing resource, and if you’ve never used it, you should. This is a perfect opportunity to learn about how to […]
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Honky
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Honky by Dalton Conley (Vintage) The Ordinary White Boy by Brock Clarke (Harcourt) Inside the term “people of color” is the idea that white people are not so much “white” as they are “colorless.” Whites have a terrible anxiety about this: The only way something can exist without color is in complete and absolute darkness–a […]
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THURSDAY 4/4 David Maisel Author of 2182 kHz. Looking Glass Bookstore, 318 SW Taylor, 227-4760, 7 pm Bharti Mukherjee Desirable Daughters: wealthy daughters in India, desired and constrained by a culture with some pretty limited ideas of the value of girls. Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, 238-1668, 7:30 pm FRIDAY 4/5 Nicole […]
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The Making of Mark Macdonald: NW Profile
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Many writers who live in the Northwest have been turning their backs on the mainstream world. Instead, they’re creating new publishing venues that have more in common with the DIY music movement of the ’80s and ’90s than the New York publishing establishment. Mark Macdonald, the author of Flat, (a novel) and Home (a collection […]
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THURSDAY 3/28 Samantha Dunn Not By Accident: Reconstructing a Careless Life. A risk-taker examines her own risks, asking herself: Why, why , why? Annie Bloom’s Books, 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, 246-0053, 7:30 pm Dr. Fred Luskin Forgive for Good: A Proven Prescription for Health and Happiness. What does it mean to forgive? Figure it out, […]
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Nigger
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Nigger by Randall Kennedy (Pantheon) In 1940, Langston Hughes wrote: “The word nigger to colored people of high and low degree is like a red rag to a bull. Used rightly or wrongly, ironically or seriously, of necessity for the sake of realism, or impishly for the sake of comedy[,] it doesn’t matter. The word […]
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THURSDAY 3/21 Robert Mailer Anderson Boonville, the story of a man surrounded by a “motley band of motor-mouthed environmentalists, tobacco-chewers, hippies, and outcasts” including, of course, at least one beautiful woman. Endoresed by Norman Mailer and Jonathan Lethem. Twenty-Third Avenue Books, 1015 NW 23rd Ave, 224-6203, 7:30 pm FRIDAY 3/22 Portland Poetry Workshop Writing exercises, […]
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Sock Monkey
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Sock Monkey by Tony Millionaire (Dark Horse Books) Tony Millionaire’s brilliant comics sway easily between cryptic and base, surreal and direct. Now he’s written a children’s book. In this book, a stuffed and nervous toy crow replaces his famous character of Drinky Crow, the lush, “…not a dusty old taxidermy crow, but a soft fuzzy […]
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THURSDAY 3/14 Barbara Roberts Death Without Denial, Grief Without Apology: The very sad, strong, and true story, by former Governor Barbara Roberts, discussing her husband’s battle with cancer. Annie Bloom’s Books, 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, 246-0053, 7:30 pm Kim Addonizio Poetry, sponsored by Mountain Writers. Addonizio is the author of The Philosopher’s Club Jimmy & […]
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Ascending Peculiarity
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Ascending Peculiarity, Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey Selected and edited by Karen Wilkin (Harcout Brace) The Object-Lesson Edward Gorey (Harcout Brace) Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson, writers of The Royal Tenenbaums, owe a huge debt to author and illustrator Edward Gorey: The high-collared fur coats, heavy eyeliner and mascara, bland expressions on the actresses, luscious […]
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THURSDAY 3/7 Donna Woolfolk Cross Pope Joan. Maybe Joan of Arc was delusional as she heard voices, but the facts are still there: She led her army to victory, she chased the English out of France. She did what men twice her age couldn’t accomplish. And what did it get her? Burned at the stake, […]
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Fast Girls
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Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut Emily White (Scribner) Big breasts? The girl’s a slut. Exotic features? Again, a slut. Maybe she moved to town mid school year, or comes from the wrong side of the highway. Maybe she’s had sex with every boy in school or she could still be […]