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Olivia Olivia

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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    Notable Portland: 5/29–6/4

    Thursday 5/29: Celebrate Noland Bo Chaliha’s book release for his latest collection, We Try to Touch Everything (May 2014). Readings to follow by Donald Dunbar, A.M. O’Malley, Rachael Jensen, Kelly Schirmann, and Tyler Brewington. IPRC, 7 p.m., free. Jim Butcher…

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    Notable Portland: 5/22–5/28

    Thursday 5/22: Kiera Cass, Kevin Emerson, and Amanda Maciel read from their respective works, The One (May 2014), Exile (April 2014), and Tease (April 2014). Powell’s at Cedar Hills Crossing, 7 p.m., free. Literary Arts welcomes Grant High School students…

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    Notable Portland: 5/15–5/21

    Thursday 5/15: Celebrate the May issue of PQ Monthly at their release party, complete with drinks and tunes. West Café, 5 p.m., free. Celebrate Portland’s bike culture with the launch of local bike enthusiast Todd Roll’s Pedal Portland: 25 Easy…

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    Notable Portland: 5/8–5/14

    Thursday 5/8: Join in with a book launch party to celebrate Annie Murphy’s latest book, Symbology (May 2014), a mega-mini-comic. Reading Frenzy, 6 p.m., free. Jenny Han and Morgan Matson read from their respective books, To All the Boys I’ve…

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    Notable Portland: 5/1–5/7

    Thursday 5/1: Portland author Trevor Blake reads from his latest collection of essays, Confessions of a Failed Egoist (March 2014). Mother Foucault’s, 5 p.m., free. Douglas Watson reads from his new book, A Moody Fellow Finds Love and Then Dies…

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    Notable Portland: 4/24–4/30

    Thursday 4/24: Enjoy a cup of coffee at the Kaplan Storytelling Event, featuring Kaplan students reading from their latest stories. Glyph, 4 p.m., free. Lewis & Clark hosts its annual release party for The Literary Review, which showcases student writing.…

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    Notable Portland: 4/17–4/23

    Thursday 4/17: Portland State University presents My Walk Has Never Been Average: A Staged Reading, based on a collection of interviews with Black tradeswomen. Lincoln Studio Theatre, doors open at 5:30 p.m., reading 6 – 7:30 p.m. Free to PSU students;…

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    Donkey Kong in Trouble

    Let’s say it’s Redwood City, California, in the year 2000.  It’s just barely summer, May or June.  I just got out of middle school, but maybe not, maybe I have a year left, and I failed my math course for the year, so…