Thursday 8/6: Vanessa MacLellan reads from her latest book, Three Great Lies. Powell’s at Cedar Hills Crossing, 7 p.m., free.
Saturday 8/8: A local author panel with Portland-based writers Nancy Slavin, Sean Davis, Margaret Pinard, and Baed Charlton will allow audience members to learn more about their publications and ask questions followed by a signing. Another Read Through, 1:30 p.m., free.
The Switch reading series is pleased to host Anastacia Tolbert from Seattle and Portland’s own Robert Duncan Gray. IPRC, 7 p.m., free.
Seasoned and novice storytellers will step up to spin the wheel of story prompts and will then have five minutes to craft a totally true story for BackFence PDX’s Russian Roulette. Participating in the humor, horror and humiliation this go-round will be Portland comedian and returning champ Caitlin Weierhauser, along with LA-based entertainment writers Jessica Lee Williamson and Joey Slamon, 105.1 The Buzz’s Daria Eliuk, Portland fashion designer Adam Arnold, and first-timers Kriya Kaping, Sean McGrath, and Mike Young. Disjecta, 8 p.m., $15 advance, $18 door.
The Brody Poetry Improv Series invites John Beer, Emily Kendal Frey, and Coleman Stevenson for their Free Verse performance set. The Brody Ensemble will provide inspired improvisations throughout the reading. Brody Theater, 8 p.m., $12, $9 students and seniors.
Sunday 8/9: Pure Surface invites Patricia No to read while accompanied by the movement by Julia Calabrese and a film by Eileen Isagon Skyers. Valentines, 6 p.m., free.
University of Virginia English professor, poet, and editor Stephen Cushman’s newest collection, The Red List, is really just one poem—a meditation on the near-extinction of the bald eagle and an exploration of the inevitability of change. Cushman reads alongside Washington poet Joseph Green, who will read from his newest book, What Water Does at a Time Like This. Stonehenge Studios, 7 p.m., free.
Monday 8/10: Stegner Fellow Val Brelinksi reads from her stunning literary debut, The Girl Who Slept with God. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free.
Chitra Viraraghavan reads from her poignant novel of the immigrant experience, The Americans. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 7:30 p.m., free.
Poets Francesca Capone, Colleen Louise Barry, Natalia Panzer, and Laura A. Warman read from their latest work for a night of women’s poetry. Valentines, 8 p.m., free.
Tuesday 8/11: Cat Winters reads from her historical thriller on disease and second chances, The Uninvited. Powell’s at Cedar Hills Crossing, 7 p.m., free.
Salon Skid Row presents Joel Kelly, Emily Griffin, and Skyler Reed read as they read alongside The Rubatos. The Corner Bar, 7 p.m., free.
Polly Dugan celebrates the launch of the paperback copy of So Much a Part of You with a reading followed by a discussion with Scott Nadelson, author of the forthcoming novel, Between You and Me. Broadway Books, 7 p.m., free.
Katy Simpson Smith discusses reads from her debut novel, The Story of Land and Sea, and is later joined in conversation by Portland-based writer Pauls Toutonghi, author of Evel Knievel Days. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free.
Wednesday 8/12: Unchaste Readers host a reading to celebrate women of color featuring Melanie Aldritt, Nadia Martinez Chantry, Jamondria Harris, Shannon Barber, S. Renee Mitchell, Olivia Olivia, Tessara Dudley, Sidony O’neal, Ijeoma Oluo, Anna Doogan, Monet Patrice Thomas, and Mariah Talicuran. In Other Words, 7 p.m., free.
National Book Award-winner William T. Vollmann tells the story of the Nez Perce War in his latest book, The Dying Grass. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free.
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