Arts & Media❯Books❯Author Talks

Kick off your holiday shopping by supporting local authors, independent books, and small businesses at Words & Wine at Hip Chicks do Wine! Friday, November 28 | 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM Saturday, November 29 | 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM We're bringing together...

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...

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-ups 4:30 – 6 p.m. — 4:30-6:00pm — Free, pre-show, pop-up performances will take place throughout the Museum’s 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...

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 Drawing from both beloved and previously unpublished Brian Doyle...

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...

A talk by Glynnis Fawkes. How does a cartoonist go about adapting a work of history, specifically Eric H. Cline’s 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed? In this talk Fawkes will describe the process of interpreting Cline’s 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...

A Friendsgiving themed charcuterie styling workshop takes place at Lux Sucre Bakery & Cafe in Wilsonville, where participants learn how to build a beautiful, delicious board and enjoy a festive outing with friends, coworkers, or a significant...

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 world’s foremost minds pioneering the future of healthcare, appearing on Modern Healthcare magazine’s 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...