Literopolis: A Weekly Look at Portland Literary Events, August 3-9

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Monday, August 03, 2015

Emily Goldman, GoLocalPDX Contributor

Happy Monday! This week the Willamette Writers, the largest writing organization in the PNW, will be holding the annual Willamette Writers Conference Friday through Sunday. Conference-goers have the option of attending classes, readings, and lectures, as well as pitching their work to available agents and editors.
DoubleTree by Hilton 1000 NE Multnomah St., $250-$455.

And now the rest of the week.

MONDAY
Another Read Through’s monthly Lesbian Book Group will be discussing contemporary mystery Bingo Barge Murder by Jessie Chandler, first in the Shay O’Hanlon Caper series. 3932 N Mississippi Ave., 7-8:30pm, FREE

At Powell’s on Hawthorne, James Neff will be exposing the inner workings of Senator Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa, labor union leader with ties to organized crime, with his new book Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy versus Jimmy Hoffa. 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 7:30pm, FREE

Gwendolyn Knapp delves into the dynamics of her eccentric, dysfunctional Florida Cracker family in her debut memoir After a While You Just Get Used to It: A Tale of Family Clutter, which she will be reading from at Powell’s City of Books.1005 W Burnside St., 7:30pm, FREE

TUESDAY
Broadway Books will be celebrating the launch of the new literary journal The Timberline Review. Published by the Willamette Writers, several of the first issue’s 46 contributors will be giving readings of their work including Kate Ristau, Margaret Malone, Andrew Michael Roberts, Jennifer Foreman, Jack Estes, and others. 1714 NE Broadway Ave., 7-8pm, FREE

Cathy Lamb will be at Powell’s at Cedar Hills reading from her new novel My Very Best Friend, the story of a single romance novelist travelling back to Scotland and reconnecting with her estranged best friend and a community she left years ago. 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., 7pm, FREE

Powell’s City of Books will be hosting Jeff Hobbs, author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace. In this biography of his college roommate while at Yale, Hobbs describes Robert’s battles attending a prestigious Ivy League university as an African American man from a poor, crime-ridden neighborhood in Newark and the intersections of race, class, gender, education, and more as Robert navigates two sets of worlds and identities.  1005 W Burnside St., 7:30pm, FREE

WEDNESDAY
At Powell’s at Cedar Hills, three YA authors will be sharing their latest contemporary novels: The Secret Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes, the story of a teenage escapee from a cult; Between the Notes by Sharon Huss Roat, in which Ivy’s family is forced to move to a poorer neighborhood when the bank forecloses on their home; and A Sense of the Infinite by Hilary T. Smith, the story of the growing distance between two best friends. 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., 7pm, FREE

At Powell’s City of Books, Kevin Palau, author of Unlikely: Setting Aside Our Differences to Live Out the Gospel, and former Portland mayor Sam Adams will be discussing the unique partnership between the city’s government and evangelical churches, brokered by Palau and Adams, in which the churches worked alongside the government to provide community service where it was needed the most. 1005 W Burnside St., 7:30pm, FREE

THURSDAY
Another Read Through will be hosting the launch of David Holly’s most recent romance novel The Heart’s Eternal Flame, in which two men, Seaton and Dustin, fall in love as they struggle to uncover a conspiracy 3932 N Mississippi Ave., 7-8pm, FREE

At Powell’s at Cedar Hills, Vanessa MacLellan will be reading from her debut novel Three Great Lies, a historical, time-traveling, fantasy novel in which a woman vacationing in Egypt tumbles 3000 years into the past and becomes involved in all sorts of shenanigans attempting to get back to the present day. 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., 7pm, FREE

Katy Towell will be at Powell’s on Hawthorne reading from her new middle grade novel Charlie and the Grandmothers, a spooky story about anxious Charlie and his sister Georgie being sent to visit their grandmother… when they don’t have any grandmothers, and the one they’re sent to visit is most definitely not a grandmother. 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 7:30pm, FREE

SATURDAY
At Another Read Through, four authors will be sitting on a panel discussing their writing and reading from some of their work: Nancy Slavin, author of the novel Moorings; Sean Davis, author of the memoir The Wax Bullet War; Margaret Pinard, author of the mystery novel Memory’s Hostage; and Baer Charlton, author of the crime novel Death on a Dime. 3932 N Mississippi Ave., 1:30-3pm, FREE

The Switch Reading Series will be holding their monthly event at the IPRC, featuring readings by poet/novelist/performance artist Anastacia Renee Tolbert and writer/musician Robert Duncan Gray 1001 SE Division St., 7pm, FREE

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