Notable Portland: 8/15–8/21

Friday 8/16: Kimberly King Parsons reads from her short story collection Black Light and is joined in conversation with Gold Fame Citrus author Claire Vaye Watkins. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free

Poet Liz Lampman performs her debut collection Another Fortune & Other Poems with harp accompaniment by Lily Breshears. The performance will be recorded for an audiobook by Buckman Publishing. The Hallowed Halls, 7:30 p.m., free.

Join OneTable and The Jewish Project for three courses of Shabbat-inspired desserts with art and storytelling with Jared Goodman. OneTable, 6:30 p.m., $20.

Sunday 8/18: Gather for an informal discussion group focusing on a series of articles published on The Intercept investigating Brazilian political corruption and Operation Car Wash. Rose City Book Pub, 11:30am, free.

Lilla presents readings by writers including Iris Anderson, Kate Gray, and Tak Kendrick on the theme of “Seek” at the Leach Botanical Garden. Lilla Lit, 4 p.m., $10.

Monday 8/19: Marjorie Kelly reads from The Making of a Democratic Economy. Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 7:30 p.m., free.

Tuesday 8/20: The Tiger’s Wife author Téa Obreht reads from her new novel, Inland, which follows two travelers in the unforgiving Arizona territory of 1893. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free.

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If you have an event listing you’d like us to consider, please write to [email protected].

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Notable Portland logo art by Olivia Olivia.

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Emily Nelson is a writer and editor from the Pacific Northwest currently pursuing an MFA in Fiction at the University of Montana. Her work has been published in Ayaskala, Drizzle Review, and Writers, and she is an ongoing contributor for the music blog half&half. You can find her on Twitter, where she mostly soliloquizes about Mad Men and other shows that are long off-air.

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