Thursday 3/3: Patricia Kullberg reads from her historical fiction novel, Girl in the River. Another Read Through, 7 p.m., free.
Bill Press reads from his latest political nonfiction book, Buyer’s Remorse. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free.
Friday 3/4: National Book Award-winning author Timothy Egan returns with a new book, The Immortal Irishman. Reading followed by Q&A and book signing. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free.
Drew Scott Swenhaugen celebrates the launch of his new chapbook, Big, published by Dikembe Press with a reading and release party. Mother Foucault’s Bookshop, 8 p.m., free.
Saturday 3/5: Join the Independent Publishing Resource Center, Q Center, emcee Sossity Chiricuzio, and Portland writers and readers in a celebration of LGBTQ literature from 1855 to present. The theme of this intergenerational literary mixtape is love. Q Center, 7 p.m., $5 to $25 sliding scale donations to include raffle tickets for prizes; no one turned away for lack of funds.
Alicia Jo Rabins, Tracey Knapp, and Lytton Smith share their work for a special reading, Three Poets of Three Five. Mother Foucault’s Bookshop, 7 p.m., free.
Sunday 3/6: Paige McKenzie reads from her new book, The Haunting of Sunshine Girl. Powell’s at Cedar Hills Crossing, 2 p.m., free.
Daniel Torday reads from his debut novel, The Last Flight of Poxl West. The reading will be followed by a conversation between Torday and Cheston Knapp, Tin House Managing Editor. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free.
Monday 3/7: Grief Rites invites Jessica Ann, Olivia Olivia, Asha Dore, Niyati Evers, Staci Wallace, Monica Welty, Ross Robbins, Kylie Menagh-Johnson, and Lesley Harper for this month’s reading. TBA, 7 p.m., free.
Sean Beaudoin reads from his new book, Welcome Thieves. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 7:30 p.m., free.
Tuesday 3/8: Megan Kruse reads from her debut novel, Call Me Home, which has been selected as one of the six winners of this year’s award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Broadway Books, 7 p.m., free.
Salon Skid Row presents Melea Seward, Hebah Ayoub, Darlene Pagan, and Deborah Akers for this week’s reading. The Corner Bar, 7 p.m., free.
Alex Cooper reads from her critically acclaimed memoir on surviving an unlicensed “residential treatment program” for homosexuality, Saving Alex. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free.
The Multnomah County Library and The Library Foundation along with Literary Arts present Cristina Henríquez, author of The Book of Unknown Americans, as the culminating event to this year’s Everybody Reads 2016 campaign. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, $15, free.
Wednesday 3/9: Marcy Houle and Elizabeth Eckstrom present from their latest nonfiction book that combines memoir with practical medical perspectives, The Gift of Caring. Annie Bloom’s Books, 7 p.m., free.
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