Happenings, which are updated every Monday, include readings, blog tours, author events, newly released books, and other things. Please send your book event dates to nativehomeofhope@gmail.com.
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Week of September 17
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
Courtney Miller Santo, The Roots of the Olive Tree, 7:30 p.m., Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, Portland, OR
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
Betty Jones, A Child’s Seasonal Treasury, 7:30 p.m., Capitola Book Cafe, Capitola, CA
Shann Ray, American Masculine, Natalie Diaz, When My Brother Was Aztec, and Bill Wetzel, contributor The Acorn Gathering,7:30 p.m., Casa Libre en la Solana, Tucson, AZ
Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins, 4:30 p.m., Purdue University, Rawls Hall, Room 2058, West Lafayette, IN
Lidia Yuknavitch, Dora: A Head Case, 7:00 p.m., Elliott Bay, Seattle, WA
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
Brush Creek Presents, co-sponsored by Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, the University of Wyoming Art Department, and the University of Wyoming MFA, 5 p.m., Visual Arts Building, Laramie, WY
Cheryl Strayed, or Dear Sugar, Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things, Do Lectures, Campovida, Hopland, CA
Lysley Tenorio, Monstress, 9:15 p.m., Cork International Short Story Festival, Cork, Ireland
Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN
Yuvi Zalkow, A Brilliant Novel in the Works, 7 p.m., Annie Bloom’s, Portland, OR
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
David Abrams, Fobbit, 7:30 p.m., Tattered Cover Colfax, Denver, CO
Alyson Hagy, Boleto, 7 p.m., Old Firehouse Books, Fort Collins, CO
La Jolla Literary Festival, a 17-speaker event that includes Mitch Albom, Ridley Pearson, and James Bradley, Sherwood Auditorium, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Cheryl Strayed, or Dear Sugar, Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things, Do Lectures, Campovida, Hopland, CA
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
CAConrad, A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon, 5 p.m., Night Heron Books, Laramie, WY
La Jolla Literary Festival, a 17-speaker event that includes Mitch Albom, Ridley Pearson, and James Bradley, Sherwood Auditorium, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Library of Congress National Book Festival, National Mall, Washington, DC
Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried, Writers in the Woods, Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe, NV
Cheryl Strayed, or Dear Sugar, Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things, Do Lectures, Campovida, Hopland, CA
Lance Weller, Wilderness, 10 a.m., Northwest Bookfest, Kirkland, WA
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
La Jolla Literary Festival, a 17-speaker event that includes Mitch Albom, Ridley Pearson, and James Bradley, Sherwood Auditorium, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
“Three Ways to Look at a Landscape,” a benefit for youth literacy and leadership program Adventure Risk Challenge sponsored by Bona Fide Books, with Janet Smith, Sue Kloss, and Michelle Murdock, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sagehen Field Creek Station, near Truckee, NV
Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis, Under Wildwood, Baghdad Theater, Portland, OR (tickets Etix.com)
Library of Congress National Book Festival, National Mall, Washington, DC
Gregory Spatz, Inukshuk, with Eric Sasson, Margins of Tolerance, 7 p.m., KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction, New York, NY
Cheryl Strayed, or Dear Sugar, Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things, Do Lectures, Campovida, Hopland, CA
