SOLD OUT Author Talk & Film Screening with Jane Schoenbrun and SenLinYu at Hollywood Theatre Parallel Worlds Bookshop and the Hollywood Theatre present a special author conversation with Jane Schoenbrun and SenLinYu, celebrating the release of...
Join Mary Miller Doyle and friends for a presentation of Wonder Is a Lovely Place to Be: 365 Days of Wit, Wisdom, and Irrepressible Imagination by Brian Doyle and Mary Miller Doyle. Drawing from both beloved and previously unpublished Brian Doyle...
Overview Portland Art Museum invites the community to join a Free First Thursday event, offering free admission to the museum for all, plus a Live Wire event as part of the Literary Arts Portland Book Festival. Visitors can take in the afternoon gallery pop-ups, the evening show, or both! Free First Thursday + Museum pop-ups4:30 â 6 p.m. â4:30-6:00pm â Free, pre-show, pop-up performances will take place throughout the Museumâs galleries.Performers are poet and rapper Dessa, bestselling...
The BACKFENCE Unhinged podcast records their first ever live show with incredible guests Mitchell S. Jackson and Nicole Hardy sharing delightfully unhinged stories. Hosted by Andrew Dicson and Frayn Masters, and presented by Portland Mercury and...
For the past three years, Cathy Whims and the Nostrana team have cooked their way through the entire collection, creating 19 dinners: one for each book. Now, for the Portland Book Festival, that journey comes to an end with Roma in Bocca the 20th...
The first book in the best-selling fantasy series full of magic, wonder, and danger from Colin Meloy, lead singer of the highly celebrated band the Decemberists, and Carson Ellis, the award-winning illustrator. Soon to be a major motion picture...
Frybread Fest is coming back to Downtown Portland, and itâs going to be bigger than ever. Help celebrate Native American Heritage Month through food, culture, art, and community. Enjoy delicious frybread from several Indigenous chefs and...
A talk by Glynnis Fawkes. How does a cartoonist go about adapting a work of history, specifically Eric H. Clineâs 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed? In this talk Fawkes will describe the process of interpreting Clineâs text in comics, an exercise during which she repeatedly asked herself how she might tell this story visually. Through page compositions and dramatizations in which historical figures (such as Ramses III) speak, she imagined characters for whom we have no record offering...
Join the Columbia Writers Series for a reading and conversation with the novelist, journalist, and editor Ed Park. Park is the author of the novels Same Bed Different Dreams and Personal Days, and the short story collection An Oral History of...
Robert Wachter, M.D. Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and widely respected futurist and thought leader With discussion moderated by OHSU President Shereef Elnahal, M.D., M.B.A. Robert Wachter is one of the worldâs foremost minds pioneering the future of healthcare, appearing on Modern Healthcare magazineâs list of the 50 most influential physician-executives in the U.S. more than a dozen times. His new book, A Giant Leap: How AI is...