Recommended Free Readings at Powell's Featuring Memoir and Nonfiction in October

 

Kim Dower

Lost languages, locomotives pummeling through dreams, taxi drivers thrown by the earth's rotation, and shadows in closets all come together in Air Kissing on Mars (Red Hen Press), Kim Dower's latest opus of shining and startling poems.

Preorder a signed edition of Air Kissing on Mars .

Thursday, October 7th @ 7:30pm Powell's Books on Hawthorne
3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd. (800) 878-7323

Jonathon Keats

In Virtual Words (Oxford University Press), Jonathon Keats, author of Wired magazine's monthly "Jargon Watch" column, investigates the interplay between words and ideas in our fast-paced, tech-driven, use-it-or-lose-it society.

Preorder a signed edition of Virtual Words .

Tuesday, October 12th @ 7:30pm Powell's City of Books on Burnside
1005 W Burnside (800) 878-7323

Mark Bittman

From Mark Bittman, the award-winning champion of conscious eating and author of the bestselling Food Matters, comes The Food Matters Cookbook (Simon & Schuster), offering the most comprehensive and straightforward ideas yet for cooking easy, delicious foods that are as good for you as they are for the planet. Cosponsored by Slow Food Portland.

Preorder a signed edition of The Food Matters Cookbook .

Monday, October 25th @ 7:30pm Powell's City of Books on Burnside
1005 W Burnside (800) 878-7323

Dinaw Mengestu

In the searing and powerful How to Read the Air (Riverhead), the adult son of Ethiopian immigrants sets out to retrace his mother and father's trip and weave together a family history that will take him from the war-torn Ethiopia of his parents' youth to his life in the America of today.

Preorder a signed edition of How to Read the Air .

Tuesday, October 19th @ 7:30pm Powell's City of Books on Burnside
1005 W Burnside (800) 878-7323