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03.16: Smallpressapalooza
2015-02-14 01:01:37| Powells Books Events Calendar
To celebrate Small Press Month, we're proud to host the eighth annual marathon reading of small press authors, Smallpressapalooza. This year's lineup features readings by John Barrios, Bruce Greif, Suzanne Burns, Jac Jemc, Luke Bloomfield, Evelyn Hampton, Kelly Schirmann, Ashley Toliver, Lauren Ireland, Alexis Orgera, Parker Tettleton, and Mike Young. Hosted by Powell's small press champion, Kevin Sampsell.
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03.16: Write Around Portland 10-Week Workshop
2015-02-14 01:01:37| Powells Books Events Calendar
Based on their acclaimed community writing model, "Prompt" is a generative workshop that offers exercises to inspire the writing life. Workshop fee ($285) includes free parking and snacks and helps to fund workshops for low-income youth and adults. This workshop takes place on Mondays, March 16 to May 18. To register or for more information, visit Writearound.org.
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03.16: Floyd Skloot
2014-02-19 01:35:15| Powells Books Events Calendar
In Revertigo (University of Wisconsin Press), Floyd Skloot offers an intimate, faceted memoir of debilitating vertigo and other experiences that knocked him awry from childhood to late middle age. Skloot's seventh full-length collection of poetry, Close Reading (Eyewear Publishing), explores many forms of love — between husband and wife, father and daughter, artist and apprentice.
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03.16: Fred Armisen & Carrie Brownstein Booksigning
2014-02-19 01:35:14| Powells Books Events Calendar
Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein's The Portlandia Activity Book (McSweeney's) is a compendium of guaranteed enrichment for the Pacific Northwestern part of your psyche — based on their satirical sketch comedy series. Like a cool high school that prefers a sweat lodge to the traditional classroom, this book will expand your mind through participation, dehydrate you to a state of emotional rawness, and linger in the corners of your bare soul. Please note: this is a booksigning only.
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03.16: Hugh Howey
2013-03-14 21:36:36| Powells Books Events Calendar
Hugh Howey's Wool (Simon and Schuster) is the thrilling e-book blockbuster that grew into a New York Times-bestseller. What would happen if the world outside was deadly, and the air could kill? This is Jules's story. This is the world of Wool. In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld the silo's rules for years, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: He asks to go outside. His fateful decision unleashes a drastic series of events. An unlikely candidate is appointed to replace him: Juliette, a mechanic with no training in law, whose special knack is fixing machines. Now Juliette is about to be entrusted with fixing her silo, and she will soon learn just how badly her world is broken. The silo is about to confront what its history has only hinted about and its inhabitants have never dared to whisper. Uprising.