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The Sketchbook Project Summer Tour

WHERE: Jupiter Hotel, Portland
WHEN: July 19-21, 2013

The Sketchbook Project Summer Tour arrives in Portland headed by husband and wife duo, Steven and Sara Peterman, bringing their Mobile Library which features thousands of handmade artists' books and stories from around the globe. Read More »

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Portland Arts & Lectures: Salman Rushdie

WHERE: Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland
WHEN: October 8, 2013

Salman Rushdie is the celebrated international author of eleven novels. An inventive stylist whose work combines elements of myth and magical realism, Nadine Gordimer calls him “The most original imagination writing today.” Read More »

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Portland Arts & Lectures: Ann Patchett

WHERE: Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland
WHEN: November 20, 2013

Ann Patchett is the best-selling author of nine books, including the novels Bell Canto and State of Wonder, and the memoir Truth and Beauty. Publisher's Weekly calls her "a master storyteller who has an entertaining habit of dropping ordinary people into extraordinary and exotic circumstances to see what they're made of." In 2012, TIME magazine named her one of the 100 Most influential people in the world, in part for starting Parnassus books and "placing herself on the front lines of several ongoing battles for the fate of the printed word". Patchett's newest book, This a Story of a Happy Marriage, a collection of essays, will be published on November 5, 2013. Read More »

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Portland Arts & Lectures: Lawrence Wright

WHERE: Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland
WHEN: January 14, 2014

Lawrence Wright is a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of nine books, including the best seller The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, which won the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent book is Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief. Read More »

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Portland Arts & Lectures: Chris Ware in conversation with Chip Kidd

WHERE: Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland
WHEN: February 18, 2014

Cartoonist Chris Ware's latest book, Building Stories, was named one of the New York Times "10 Best Books of 2012." and "Top Ten Fiction Books of the Year" by TIME magazine. His book Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth won the Guardian First Book Award and was listed as one of the "100 Best Books of the Decade" by The Times (London) in 2009. Chris Ware will be in conversation with Chip Kidd, a book designer and author of several books about comics, including Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz. Kidd is Chris Ware’s editor at Random House. Read More »

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Portland Arts & Lectures: Julia Alvarez

WHERE: Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland
WHEN: April 3, 2014

Award-winning Dominican writer Julia Alvarez has said, "a novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart" Her work frequently deals with family dramas set in politically charged climates. She has published over 19 books, including the best-selling novels How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In The Time of Butterflies, the memoir A Wedding in Haiti, poetry and books for children. Read More »