SEX: FICTION’S HAMBURGER HELPER How Authors Wrestle with Sex on the Page by Monica Drake WRITING IN THE NUDE When the Private Becomes All Too Public by joelle fraser MY FIRST BOOK TOUR Or, “I’m not a hijacker!” by arthur bradford THE GREATEST WORK OF ART, EVER Nothing Can Top the WTC by Michael Hornburg
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THURSDAY 10/18 Libby Gill Stay At Home Dads: The Essential Guide to Creating the New Family. Barnes & Noble, 1720 N Jantzen Beach, 283-2800, 7 pm David Schmahmann This South-African author will read from his book, Empire Settings. Borders Books and Music, 708 SW 3rd Ave, 220-5911, 7 pm Original Book Group White Teeth, by […]
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Dogwalker
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Dogwalker Arthur Bradford (Knopf) I do lots of things slowly. Like reading books, for one. It took me six months to read The Fountainhead. Maybe longer. But Arthur Bradford’s story collection, Dogwalker, only took me about three hours. This isn’t just because Dogwalker is 144 pages. No, it’s because Dogwalker is 144 pages of cock-eyed […]
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SEX: FICTION’S HAMBURGER HELPER
How Authors Wrestle with Sex on the Page
Freud said that whoever you are in the sack, that’s who you really are. That’s your real personality. “Freud forgot to say that you’re different in bed with different people,” author Blake Nelson was quick to add, talking about his third novel, User. Nelson’s characters are revealed through sex and elsewhere as young, lustful, callow, […]
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WRITING IN THE NUDE
When the Private Becomes All Too Public
He holds me from behind, his semen on my thighs, the wetness dried tight and thin as faded scars. In June, I read this in front of 150 people, a local TV camera, and my mother. Every time I looked up at the audience, I could see my mother in the third row, her face […]
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THURSDAY 10/11 * Gary Soto Continuing the series of authors for Hispanic Heritage Month. Soto is an under acknowleged literary jewel, writing in a style that might at times be compared to Tobias Wolfe, and at other times, is all his own. Central Library, 801 SW 10th Ave, 248-5234, 7 pm New User Orientation Learn […]
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America The Beautiful
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America The Beautiful Moon Unit Zappa (Scribner) In 1963, poet Anne Sexton agitated readers with Menstruation at Forty. According to the introduction of Anne Sexton: The Complete Poems, Harper’s contributor Louis Simpson called it the “straw that broke the camel’s back.” It was too damn much and too female. James Dickey, in the New York […]
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THE NEW HIP HOP NATION
Local Producer Takes Hiphop to the Park
F or Roderick Franklin–the exclusive organizer of this year’s Hiphop in the Park show–appreciating hiphop means, above all, making a distinction between hiphop that’s promoted by corporations, and hiphop that’s genuinely street level. “I’m not saying that the problems with gangsta rap are the fault of the musicians, at all,” he explains. “I love all […]
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A GUIDE TO A DAMN GOOD TIME
Everything You Need to Know About Hiphop in the Park
Hiphop in the Park Sunday, Oct 7 Alberta Park, NE 22nd and Killingsworth 1 pm-8 pm Free Hiphop in the Park–the day-long show of hiphop artists, spoken word performances, political tabling, and political speakers–is a kind of like those giant buffet platters that one can get in Vegas for $2: There’s a lot of good […]
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THURSDAY 10/4 Stephen Jay Gould Scientist, professor, and essayist. Sponsored by Portland Arts & Lectures. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, SW Broadway & Main, 7:30 pm, $23 World’s Largest Writing Workshop Two corporate sponsors: Barnes & Nobles, and Writer’s Digest magazine. Barnes & Noble Northeast (Lloyd Center), 1231 NE Broadway, 335-0201, 7 pm MONDAY 10/8 Can […]
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Empire
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Empire Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri (Harvard University Press) A Mercury Reader User’s Guide Once in a blue moon, something happens to the social universe: a grand convergence of social and cultural forces beams down to earth a radical new book. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire is such a book. Published three months after […]
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THURSDAY 9/27 * Jonathan Franzen Author of The Corrections, and a New Yorker contributor riding a wave of popularity as he taps into a universal fear of mortality, aging, Parkinsons, and other diseases and family life. First Unitarian Church, 1011 SW 12th Ave, 246-2441, 7:30 pm * Karl Soehnlein There’s more than one way to […]