Notable Portland: 5/16–5/22
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
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Notable Portland: 4/11–4/17
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
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Notable NYC: 9/8–9/14
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable Los Angeles: 9/3–9/9
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Notable Portland: 8/23–8/29
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
...moreNotable Portland 2/8–2/14
Literary events and readings in and around Portland this week!
...moreNotable Portland: 1/5–1/11
Thursday 1/5: The Slamlandia Open Mic and Slam returns for 2017 with a special reading from Kay Kassirer. Hot Lips Pizza Hawthorne, 6 p.m., $1 suggested donation. Author Diane Simmons shares from her research on a notorious bigamist who predated on women during late WWII in her book, The Courtship of Eva Eldridge. Another Read […]
...moreReinventing Myth and Genre for Fiction
Fables and fairy tales and folk tales can compel us on their own, but they’re also ripe for reinvention. Some authors may take the skeleton of a centuries-old story and use it as the basis for something new; others may borrow the language or structure in order to apply them to something else entirely. Over […]
...moreThe Rumpus Interview with Patrick DeWitt
The Rumpus talks to Patrick DeWitt about his new book, The Sisters Brothers, the story of two brothers in Gold Rush California.
...moreAri Messer: The Last Book I Loved, Ablutions
Why is the second person such a natural and addictive tense–perhaps the only honest one–when writing about drug abuse and a foggy recovery? For years, you haven’t been able to stop asking this question. Reading Patrick deWitt’s Ablutions: Notes for a Novel, you are asking it again, vocally (a real dinner-party silencer), by mistake or […]
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