Powell's City of Books

1005 W Burnside St.

Portland, OR

228-4651 | Website

Neighborhood: Downtown

Perhaps you’ve heard of the fabled City of Books, with its entire room of pulp novels and another filled exclusively by rare and first editions. It is no mere legend: Knowledge really was its treasure!

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Jon Mooallem, Wild Ones

Even more dead polar bears.

Books The conservation of American wildlife is not a happy story. Well, not one Jon Mooallem would read his 2-year-old daughter before bedtime. His debut book, Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdl More

Wednesday, June 5, 2013 BRANDON WIDDER

Laurie Notaro, The Potty Mouth at the Table

Concerning all those hobos and foodies.

Books What do you do about the hobos sleeping in the alley behind your house? It’s a very Portland problem, and one Eugene-based essayist Laurie Notaro tackles along with other uncomfortable moments o More

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 KAITIE TODD

C.B. Bernard, Chasing Alaska

Dead polar bears everywhere.

Books Anyone who has lost a weekend pursuing their heritage through the waggling leaves of Ancestry.com understands the dynamic driving C.B. Bernard’s Chasing Alaska: A Portrait of the Last Frontier T More

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 MARTIN CIZMAR

Augusten Burroughs, This Is How

He ran with scissors and lived to tell the tale.

Books “Wipe that fucking smile off your face.” So begins the new book by Augusten Burroughs, a darkly comedic and sincere self-help book titled This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can’t (Picad More

Wednesday, April 24, 2013 KAITIE TODD

Aggro Rag Freestyle Mag! Plywood Hoods Zines ’84-’89

“Me. I ride for me.”

Books Aggro Rag Freestyle Mag! Plywood Hoods Zines ’84-’89: The Complete Collection (Stovepiper Books Media, 443 pages, $24.43) is radical, and not in political or mathematical terms. Rather, this i More

Wednesday, April 3, 2013 BRANDON WIDDER

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Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013

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NoViolet Bulawayo

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In her new novel, We Need New Names, NoViolet Bulawayo follows the journey of a young girl leaving Zimbabwe for America. Bulawayo will read from the book, which is being praised as a raw ...

7:30 pm. | Free.

Thursday, Jun 20, 2013

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Colum McCann

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Irish writer, National Book Award winner and kick-ass storyteller Colum McCann (This Side of Brightness, Let the Great World Spin) will read from his newest book, TransAtlantic< ...

7:30 pm. | Free.

Friday, Jun 21, 2013

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Sandi Doughton

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The often-forecasted mega-earthquake due here in the Pacific Northwest has taken on the qualities of the zombie apocalypse—fun to speculate about at parties but not taken seriously enough to a ...

7:30 pm. | Free.

Sunday, Jun 23, 2013

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Wendy Tremayne

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Here in Portland we may plant gardens, raise chickens, keep bees and even tend goats, but we’ve got nothing on the couple profiled in Wendy Tremayne’s new book, The Good Life Lab: Radical ...

7:30 pm. | Free.

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