Speaking With The Angel edited by Nick Hornby (Riverhead Books) A collection of 12 stories from an equal number of writers, the table of contents for Speaking With the Angel reads like the all-star line-up for young literary hotshots; Melissa Banks; Nick Hornby; Dave Eggers. And, it’s as good as it promises. Well, it’s pretty […]
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THURSDAY 4/5 Spring Poetry Contest! Poets age 16 and up are invited to submit poems, no more than 30 lines each, to be judged by nationally acclaimed local poet Michelle Glazer. The winner gets a reading with Glazer at Looking Glass. Poems due in by 4/13. Looking Glass Bookstore, 318 SW Taylor, 227-4760 John D’Agata […]
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Marbles in My Underpants
Marbles in My Underpants Renee French (Oni Press) Truth, beauty, and depravity must all share the same frame. I read that somewhere. I wrote it down as a note to myself: the goal of emotionally rich art. Marbles in My Underpants, the collected work of comic artist Renee French, does exactly that–puts truth, beauty, and […]
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THURSDAY 3/29 Michelle Cassou Point Zero. A book about “breaking down the barriers to creativity.” Annie Bloom’s Books, 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, 246-0053, 7:30 pm Avid Readers Book Group The Burning Shore, by Wilbur Smith. Barnes & Noble/ Clackamas, 9078 SE Sunnyside Rd, 794-9262, 7 pm The Funhouse Mirror: Reflections on Prison After standardized testing, […]
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Looking Good
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Looking Good: Male Body Image in Modern America by Lynne Luciano (Hill & Wang) Lard ass. Cue ball. Horse face. Limp Dick and Li’l Smokie. No, these aren’t villains out of Dick Tracy’s Rogues Gallery, but rather, they are You: that proud yet tragically self-involved beast, the American Male. In her book Looking Good, Lynne […]
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THURSDAY 3/22 Aaron and Charlotte Elkins A couple that writes together, churning out the award winners. Northwest Neighborhood Cultural Center, 1819 NW Everett, 228-6972, 7:30 pm The Gates of the Alamo Here’s a more complicated look at border politics, our Mexican neighbors, and how the Alamo came about, told through fictional characters. Powell’s City of […]
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Lemon
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Lemon Lawrence Krauser (McSweeney’s Books) Coincidentally, a copy of Lemon arrived at my office the day my boyfriend dumped me. Lemon is about a guy who gets dumped by his girlfriend and finds “new love–or obsession at least–in a small, perfect, yellow fruit.” Having just been dumped myself, I wasn’t sure I needed any help […]
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THURSDAY 3/15 Sci Fi/Fantasy Book Group for Adults Krondor: Tear of the Gods by Raymond E. Feist is this month’s choice. Barnes & Noble/Clackamas, 9078 SE Sunnyside Rd, 794-9262, 7 pm The Philosophy of Book Collecting Meet with booksellers and talk about why and how people collect books. Free, sponsored by the Portland Area Used […]
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Dirty Words
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Dirty Words by M. Christian (Alyson Publications) The point of writing erotica is to turn the reader on–right? M. Christian uses a formula in order to do this, something he calls “The Sexual Response Cycle.” This entails: “Excitement (an idea comes to mind), Plateau (putting it together), Orgasm (riding the high), and Resolution, (The End),” […]
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THURSDAY 3/8 Independent Publishing Resource Orientation Open to the public, no need to register. Find out what’s going on. It’s an amazing resource. Independent Publishing Resource Center, 917 SW Oak Street, #218, 232-5673, 7 PM Jan Burke Flight. Murder, detectives, suspense and, of course, a “cruel twist.” Powell’s-Beaverton, 8725 SW Cascade Ave, 643-3131, 7 PM […]
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Whose Song? and Other Stories
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Whose Song? and Other Stories by Thomas Glave Powell’s Books 3723 SE Hawthorne 7:30 pm March 13 Three young men are violently raping a teenage lesbian. The narrative reveals that each of the rapists is experiencing at least some form of homosexual panic within. The girl is probably on her back, or at least that’s […]
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dan rapheal, Casey Bush, and Laura Winter
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dan rapheal, Casey Bush, and Laura Winter Powell’s Books January 25 Casey Bush, Laura Winter, and dan raphael were all at the pinnacle of form on the evening of January 25th at Powell’s on Hawthorne, and each had a new book to flog. Well ok, Casey Bush’s Janesbonnets isn’t new, exactly; he composed these poems […]