Notable Portland: 9/18–9/24

Thursday 9/18: The Reed College English department welcomes novelist and short-story writer Lynne Tillman for a reading. Reed College, 6:30 p.m., free.

Laila Lalami reads from her latest imagined memoirs of the New World’s first explorer of African descent, The Moor’s Account. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free.

Friday 9/19: Poets Tyler Atwood and John W. Barrios celebrate their latest book release by reading alongside Emily Kendal Frey and Robert Lashley. IPRC, 8 p.m., free.

Saturday 9/20: Poets Zachary Schomburg, Joshua Nathaniel, Covington White, Nathan Wade Carter, and Ryan Mills read for the latest Bone Tax Reading. Ford Food & Drink, 7 p.m., free.

Blue Skirt Productions presents author Jim Ruland as he reads from his latest book, Forest of Fortune. Glyph, 7:30 p.m., free.

Sunday 9/21: Poets Tyler Atwood and John Barrios read from the latest collections. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 4 p.m., free.

The Portland Poetry Slam hosts its weekly reading. Glyph, 7 p.m., free.

Sean Wilsey reads from his latest essay collection, More Curious. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free.

Monday 9/22: The Switch Reading Series welcomes local writers Nathan Wade Carter, Sarah Dowling, and Rachel Zolf for this month’s event. IPRC, 7 p.m., free.

Join Sarah Waters as she discusses her new book, The Paying Guests, with Portland author Lidia Yuknavitch. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free.

Journalist and author Ramita Navai reads from his new book on the inner lives of Iranians, City of Lies. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 7:30 p.m., free.

Tuesday 9/23: Topside Press authors Casey Plett and Sybil Lamb read alongside local trans-lit luminaries Carter Sickels, Katie Kaput, Sara Woods, Tom Léger, Riley MacLeod, and Cooper Lee Bombardier. Floyd’s Old Town, 7 p.m., free.

Lois Leveen reads from her new book, Juliet’s Nurse. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free.

Wednesday 9/24: Kirsten and Christopher Shockey read from their fermenting guide, Fermented Vegetables. Powell’s City of Books, 7 p.m., free.

Rumpus columnist Cheryl Strayed visits the Pacific Northwest College of Arts to discuss her New York Times-bestselling book, Wild, and the exciting process of having her book turned into a movie. PNCA, 7:30 p.m., free.

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Olivia Olivia comes from the same place all sad things come from—the sea. Her writing has appeared in Salon, The Rumpus, The Establishment, Ex-Berliner, and the Portland Mercury, among other places. Her speculative memoir set in the afterlife, No One Remembered Your Name But I Wrote It Down, is available through Impossible Wings Press. Prepare yourselves. You can follow her work at oliviawrites.com, on Facebook, and on Twitter.

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