Notable Portland: 8/23–8/29

Thursday 8/23: Sri Lankan American writer SJ Sindu reads from her debut novel, Marriage of a Thousand Lies, and is joined in conversation by Kate Carroll de Gutes, author of The Authenticity Experiment. Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 7:30 p.m., free.

Friday 8/24: The Whitenoise Project presents Trevino Brings Plenty, Melissa Bennett, Natasha Moni, Bella Hall, and manuel arturo abreu to read from their latest works. Artists’ Milepost, 7 p.m., free.

Saturday 8/25: The Spare Room Reading Series welcomes poets Liv Veazey, Eliza Rotterman, and Jules Boykoff. Passages Bookshop, 7 p.m., free.

Monday 8/27: Chas Smith, author of Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell, reads from his new book, Cocaine + Surfing. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free.

Poet Katie Ford reads from her fourth collection, If You Have to Go, and is joined in conversation by Mary Szybist, author of Incarnadine. Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 7:30 p.m., free.

Tuesday 8/28: Patrick deWitt reads from his new darkly comic novel, French Exit. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free.

Wednesday 8/29: T. Greenwood reads from her new novel, Rust and Stardust, alongside Kristina McMorris, who will read from her latest novel, Sold on a Monday.  Powell’s City of Books, 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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