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Virtual Panel with Tiffany Cates, Beth Alvarado, Irene Cooper, & Brigitte Lewis
Friday March 05 | 7:00PM - 8:00PM
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REGISTER HERE: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EO4KixvxTky8a9xpW9V9xw In M-Theory, Donovan James dissects the lives of his fellow commuters until the morning his attentions are caught by the lady in the blue coat and her smile. The moment is fleeting, but it upends everything he believes to be true about himself and those around him. Revolving around two deaths, M-theory is a noir fiction novel that provides all the thrills of a police procedural, while scrutinizing those procedures. An engrossing study in humanity among America’s societal, spiritual, and moral tensions, Cates writes a story that is as inventive and intelligent as it is entertaining. TIFFANY CATES spent five years navigating Chicago’s transit and weather systems before moving to Oregon and earning her MFA in Creative Writing from Oregon State University. Influenced by her degrees in philosophy and psychology, Cates writes around themes of personhood, matters of freewill, and the distance between self and other. Jillian in the Borderlands: A Cycle of Rather Dark Tales is BETH ALVARADO's fourth book. She has written extensively about her experiences as a Euro-American woman marrying into a Mexican-American family and spent most of her life in Arizona. Her essay collection, Anxious Attachments, won a 2020 Oregon Book Award. IRENE COOPER is the author of Committal, poet-friendly spy-fy about family from Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, & spare change, from Finishing Line Press. Writings appear in The Feminist Wire, Phoebe, Utterance, The Denver Quarterly, The Manifest-Station, The Rumpus, & elsewhere. Irene co-edits The Stay Project & teaches in community in Oregon. BRIGITTE LEWIS is a writer born in Gold Country & destined for speculation. Her chapbook Origin Stories reimagines biblical tales from a modern perspective. Her writing has appeared in The Southampton Review, DIAGRAM, Foglifter, The Bellingham Review and elsewhere. You can find nuggets of her prospecting at brigitteelewis.com. This event is free and open to the public. Please register to get the password for the event and purchase their books here! ![]()
Stephanie Plymale in Conversation with Tina Ontiveros
Thursday March 11 | 7:00PM - 8:00PM
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American Daughter is at once the deeply moving memoir of a troubled mother-daughter relationship and a meditation on trauma, resilience, transcendence, and redemption. Stephanie's story is unique but its messages are universal, offering insight into what it means to survive, to rise above, to heal, and to forgive. STEPHANIE THORNTON PLYMALE is the CEO of Heritage School of Interior Design and the founder of the Heritage Home Foundation, a nonprofit serving families transitioning from homelessness. She lives with her husband and three children in Portland, Oregon. TINA ONTIVEROS is a writer and teacher based in the Columbia River Gorge. Raised below the federal poverty line, Tina is the first person in her family to go to college and she completed her education while raising her children. As a writer and a teacher, Tina’s work explores class, generational hardship, and the social constructs that marginalize the poor. Her essay, The Life We Pay For, was a top ten most read of 2019 Oregon Humanities Magazine feature. Her memoir, rough house, has spent 17 consecutive weeks on the PNBA Bestseller's list and was awarded a 2021 Pacific Northwest Book Award.
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Daniel Simpson in Conversation with Stuart Sarbacker
Sunday March 14 | 2:00PM - 3:00PM
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REGISTER HERE: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrf-morDIrGdDJuulDajPqVsCbaeblBTKC Sunday afternoon, join Daniel Simpson for an engaging conversation with OSU professor Stuart Sarbacker and a guided virtual yoga practice afterwards! Yoga is practiced by many millions of people worldwide and is celebrated for its mental, physical, and spiritual benefits. And yet, as Daniel Simpson reveals in The Truth of Yoga, much of what is said about yoga is misleading. The Truth of Yoga is a clear, concise, and accessible handbook for the lay reader that draws upon abundant recent scholarship. It outlines these new findings with practitioners in mind, highlighting ways to keep traditions alive in the twenty-first century. DANIEL SIMPSON teaches at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, in teacher trainings around the UK, and at Triyoga in London. He is a graduate of Cambridge University and has a master's degree from SOAS University of London. STUART RAY SARBACKER is an Associate Professor in the School of History, Philosophy, and Religion at Oregon State University. He is the author of Tracing the Path of Yoga: The History and Philosophy of Indian Mind-Body Discipline (SUNY Press, 2021) and (with Kevin Kimple) The Eight Limbs of Yoga: A Handbook for Living Yoga Philosophy (North Point Press, 2015). This event is co-sponsored by Sweet Yoga and Love Yoga Studios. It is also free and open to the public. Please register to get the password for the event and purchase his book here! ![]()
Adam Minter in Conversation with Jen Howard
Wednesday March 17 | 7:00PM - 8:00PM
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REGISTER HERE: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8YKTcY85Rs6IIRsDo3-KcA From journalist Adam Minter, author of Junkyard Planet, comes Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale, an unexpected adventure into the often-hidden, multibillion-dollar industry of reuse: from thrift stores in the American Southwest to vintage shops in Tokyo, flea markets in Southeast Asia to used-goods enterprises in Ghana, and more. Along the way, Minter meets the fascinating people who handle—and profit from—our rising tide of discarded stuff, and asks a pressing question: In a world that craves shiny and new, is there room for it all? Secondhand offers hopeful answers and hard truths. A history of the stuff we’ve used and a contemplation of why we keep buying more, it also reveals the marketing practices, design failures, and racial prejudices that push used items into landfills instead of new homes. Secondhand shows us that it doesn't have to be this way, and what really needs to change to build a sustainable future free of excess stuff. ADAM MINTER is the author of Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade and a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. He lives in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. JEN HOWARD is the author of Clutter: An Untidy History. A former contributing editor for The Washington Post and a former senior reporter for The Chronicle of Higher Education, she has written for TLS, VQR, Slate, and many other publications. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her family. This event is free and open to the public. Please register to get the password for the event and purchase his book here! ![]()
Justin St. Germain in Conversation with Elena Passarello
Wednesday March 24 | 7:00PM - 8:00PM
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REGISTER HERE: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UA6ouJ-vTKO-AHVRImXi9Q Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood is one of the best-selling American books of all time, and the originator of the hugely popular true crime genre. In the latest volume in Ig’s acclaimed Bookmarked series, award-winning author Justin St. Germain writes about his obsession with Capote’s book. St. Germain traces his own history with In Cold Blood—including a trip to Holcomb, Kansas, the site of the Clutter murders it claims to be about—as well as the book’s long and complicated legacy, and its profound affect on him, Capote, the people it portrays, and American culture’s attitudes toward murder. JUSTIN ST. GERMAIN is the author of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, part of IG Publishing's Bookmarked series, and the memoir Son of a Gun, which won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award and was named a best book of 2013 by many outlets. He teaches at Oregon State. ELENA PASSARELLO is the author of two collections of essays, Let Me Clear My Throat and Animals Strike Curious Poses. She teaches nonfiction at Oregon State University and appears weekly on the nationally syndicated radio program Live Wire! This event is free and open to the public. Please register to get the password for the event and purchase his book here! |