Thursday 10/16: Portland State welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and professor Rae Armantrout for a lecture followed by a reading. Lecture at Yale Union, 5 p.m., free. Reading will follow at Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 294, 7 p.m., free.
Brian Doyle reads from his latest book, Children and Other Wild Novels. Broadway Books, 7 p.m., free.
Matthew Thomas reads from his multigenerational debut novel, We Are Not Ourselves. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free.
Friday 10/17: Celebrate the release of Collected Translations by David Wevill with readings by journalist Flávia Rocha and Greek scholar Thomas Dietzel. Mother Foucalt’s, 7 p.m., free.
Vikram Chandra, author of Sacred Games, has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In Geek Sublime, his first work of nonfiction, Chandra searches for the connections between the worlds of art and technology. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free.
Saturday 10/18: The Gobshite Quarterly hosts Amy Temple Harper, Brenda Taulbee, Trevor Dodge, Kassten Alonso, Lynda Shay, and Douglas Spangle for their issue launch reading. Glyph, 5:30 p.m., free.
Soundings reading series invites David Biespiel, Pecob B. Jett, and Camille Perry to read alongside music by Lucas Biespiel and No Parades. Ford Food + Drink, 7 p.m., free.
Sunday 10/19: The Portland Poetry Slam hosts its weekly reading. Glyph, 7 p.m., free.
Daniel Woodrell discusses his latest book, The Maid’s Version, with fellow author Benjamin Percy. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free.
Monday 10/20: Pete Fromm reads from his latest book, If Not For This. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 7:30 p.m., free.
Tuesday 10/21: Atul Gawande reads from his latest book, Being Mortal. Powell’s at Cedar Hills Crossing, 7 p.m., free.
The Baffler has recently released a collection of essays, No Future For You. Three of its contributors, John Summers, Thomas Frank, and Rick Perlstein, will read tonight. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free.
Wednesday 10/22: Curbside Extravaganza, Chicago’s Best Indie Publisher of 2014, welcomes four of their authors to read for tonight’s event: Dmitry Samarov, Susan Lanier, Brian Costello, and Sara Woods. Reading Frenzy, 7 p.m., free.
The Oatmeal creator Matthew Inman reads from his latest collection, The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free.
McSweeney’s hosts a reading extravaganza in the Ace Hotel Lobby, featuring Miriam Toews, Carl Adamshick, and Rumpus columnist Kevin Sampsell. Ace Hotel, 7 p.m., free.
