Thursday 10/22: Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor hosts a signing for this third book, You’re Making Me Hate You. Powell’s City of Books, 12:30 p.m., free.
National Poetry Slam finalist and Vietnamese refugee Bao Phi reads from his latest work. Hollywood Library, 6:30 p.m., free.
Joe Meno reads from his mesmerizing epic, Marvel and Wonder, alongside Nina Revoyr who will be sharing her new novel, Lost Canyon. After which, both writers will be joined in conversation by Joshua Amberson, author of the critically-acclaimed zines Basic Paper Airplane and The Prince Zine. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free.
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz reads from her biography of mid-19th-century plastic surgeon Thomas Dent Mütter, Dr. Mütter’s Marvels. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 7:30 p.m., free.
Friday 10/23: All Fines Forgiven, a book-themed variety show, returns to Portland this fall with live performances and talk segments featuring Whitney Mongé, Amelia Gray, Natalie Graham, Carola Dibbell, and Dao Strom, all hosted by Arthur Bradford. Clinton Street Theater, 7 p.m, $12 general, $10 seniors/students/nonprofit employees.
Catherynne M. Valente reads from her latest book, Radiance. Powell’s at Cedar Hills Crossing, 7 p.m., free.
Magdalena Zurawski and Stacey Tran read from their latest poetry collections. IPRC, 7 p.m., free.
Saturday 10/24: Booty Call is a night of outrageous, funny, and dirty stories featuring Bri Pruett, Justin Taylor, Robyn Bateman, and Monica Drake, hosted by Kevin Sampsell and B. Frayn Masters. Portland Center Stage, 10 p.m., $5.
Sunday 10/25: Gwen Beatty celebrates the release of her latest chapbook, Kill Us on the Way Home by reading alongside Margaret Malone, Kate Ristau, Sam Snoek-Brown, and Amy Temple Harper. Post 134, 2 p.m., free.
Alicia Jo Rabins reads from her latest poetry collection, Divinity School. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 4 p.m., free.
The À reading series welcomes Rich Smith, Kiki Nicole, Brittany Baldwin, and Jarad Miles for this month’s show. Valentines, 5 p.m., free.
Monday 10/26: Paula Hawkins reads from her new psychological thriller, The Girl on the Train and is joined in conversation by Phillip Margolin, author of Woman with a Gun. Powell’s at Cedar Hills Crossing, 7 p.m., free.
National Book Award-finalist Bonnie Jo Campbell reads from her new book, Mothers, Tell Your Daughters. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 7:30 p.m., free.
Tuesday 10/27: Bestselling author Sarah Vowell reads from her new book, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States. Powell’s at Cedar Hills Crossing, 7 p.m., free.
North Korean defector and leading human rights activist Yeonmi Park reads from her memoir, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom, which chronicles her harrowing escape from tyranny into a new life of advocacy. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free.
Wednesday 10/28: Join writers Leni Zumas, Jemiah Jefferson, and Lara Messersmith-Glavin for an evening of uncannily great stories by Shirley Jackson, master of the eerie and mundane for Queen of the Night: An Evening in Shirley Jackson’s World. Glyph, 6:30 p.m., free.
Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor bring their wildly popular podcast to readers in their new book, Welcome to Night Vale. Fink and Cranor will be joined in conversation by musician/vlogger Hank Green. Powell’s at Cedar Hills Crossing, 7 p.m., free.
One of Spain’s most powerful authors, Toni Sala reads from his new first book, The Boys, which has been translated into English and won Catalonia’s highest literary award. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 7:30 p.m., free.
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