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04.20: Laurel Snyder & David Michael Slater
2013-03-15 00:36:46| Powells Books Events Calendar
The Jewish Federation of Portland presents the Food for Thought Festival featuring readings of two children's books. At 12 p.m., Laurel Snyder will present Good Night, Laila Tov (Random House). A family trip turns into an adventure of discovery for a curious and carefree sister and brother. While the two explore the natural wonders of the seashore, woods, and fields, their parents plant trees as an offering of thanks for all they have received. In Jewish tradition, this is called tikkun olam, or repairing the world. As the children settle down to sleep, they are lulled by the soothing sounds around them that become the refrain: "good night, laila tov" — the same comforting words in English and Hebrew that their parents recite to them every night at bedtime. Laurel Snyder's lilting poem is both a song of praise to the beauty of nature and a gentle lullaby. Jui Ishida's rich, jewel-tone illustrations illuminate the text and incorporate details that readers will love to discover. At 2 p.m., David Michael Slater will share his new work, The Book of Nonsense (CBAY Books). The book is ancient, ravaged, and full of utter nonsense. But the moment it enters Daphna and Dexter's lives, bizarre things begin to happen. Now, their father seems to have been hypnotized by a strange old man, and a giant, red-eyed boy has started to menace them. Daphna and Dexter can't stand each other, but they'll have to work together to learn the truth about the Book of Nonsense before their lives come apart completely.
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04.20: Amy Ephron & Yael Kohen
2013-03-15 00:36:46| Powells Books Events Calendar
The Jewish Federation of Portland presents the Food for Thought Festival featuring readings by two authors. At 1 p.m., Amy Ephron will share her new work, Loose Diamonds: ...And Other Things I've Lost (and Found) along the Way (William Morrow). In Loose Diamonds, an engaging collection of essays and observations, Amy Ephron, the acclaimed, award-winning author of the One Sunday Morning and A Cup of Tea, paints a rich, vivid, and comic portrait of modern living from a modern woman's perspective. Fans of the writings of Amy Sedaris and Joan Didion's Slouching towards Bethlehem will enjoy Ephron's funny, incisive take on the intricate weave of a woman's world. At 3 p.m., Yael Kohen will present We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy (Sarah Crichton Books). No matter how many times female comedians buck the conventional wisdom, people continue to ask: "Are women funny?" The question has been nagging at women off and on (mostly on) for the past 60 years. It's incendiary, much discussed, and, as proven in Yael Kohen's fascinating oral history, totally wrongheaded. In We Killed, Kohen pieces together the revolution that happened to (and by) women in American comedy, gathering the country's most prominent comediennes and the writers, producers, nightclub owners, and colleagues who revolved around them. A chorus of creative voices and hilarious storytelling, We Killed is essential cultural and social history, and — as it should be — great entertainment.
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