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04.08: Jon Ronson
2015-03-18 19:04:47| Powells Books Events Calendar
For the past three years, Jon Ronson, author of The Psychopath Test, has been immersing himself in the world of modern-day public shaming — meeting famous shamees, shamers, and bystanders who have been impacted. Whole careers are being ruined by one mistake. A transgression is revealed and our collective outrage at it has the force of a hurricane. Then we all quickly forget about it and move on to the next one, and it doesn't cross our minds to wonder if the shamed person is okay or in ruins. What's it doing to them? What's it doing to us? Ronson's new book, So You've Been Publicly Shamed (Riverhead), is a powerful, funny, unique, and very humane dispatch from the frontline, in the escalating war on human nature and its flaws.
04.08: Science Fiction Book Group
2014-03-18 00:36:11| Powells Books Events Calendar
This month we meet to discuss A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. Join us!
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04.08: The Craft Beer Revolution
2014-03-18 00:36:11| Powells Books Events Calendar
In 1980, a handful of "microbrewery" pioneers launched a revolution that would challenge the dominance of the national brands and change the way Americans think about, and drink, beer. In The Craft Beer Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan), Steve Hindy, cofounder of Brooklyn Brewery, tells the inside story of how a band of home brewers and microbrewers came together to become one of America's great entrepreneurial triumphs. Wednesday the 9th, 7pm / Powell's at Cedar Hills Crossing
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04.08: Brian Doyle
2014-03-18 00:36:11| Powells Books Events Calendar
Declan O'Donnell has left Oregon aboard his boat, the Plover, to escape the life that's so troubled him on land. He sets course west into the Pacific in search of solitude. Instead, he finds a crew, each in search of something themselves, and what at first seems a lonely sea voyage becomes a rapturous, heartfelt celebration of life's surprising paths, planned and unplanned. The Plover (Thomas Dunne) is the compelling new novel by Brian Doyle, author of Mink River and editor of Portland Magazine.
04.08: Ben Katchor CANCELLED
2013-04-08 21:37:47| Powells Books Events Calendar
From one of the most original and imaginative American cartoonists at work today comes a collection of graphic narratives on the subjects of urban planning, product design, and architecture — a surrealist handbook for the rebuilding of society in the 21st century. With cutting wit, Ben Katchor reveals a world similar to our own — lives are defined by possessions, consumerism is a kind of spirituality — but also slightly, fabulously askew. Frequently and brilliantly bizarre, and always mesmerizing, Hand-Drying in America: And Other Stories (Pantheon) ensures that you will never look at a building, a bar of soap, or an ATM the same way. We're sorry to report that this event has been cancelled.