In the book The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography by Katharine Harmon, you’ll find 360 images of artwork and art series that bear new meaning to any preconceived idea of the appearance and purpose of maps. Over 100 artists, who create artwork using maps, are inspired by maps or offer new interpretations of maps, contributed to a compilation that speaks to the human spirit and our own placement in the world.
“I just love Portland, and I love the happy hours,” said Cindy Anderson, author of the Happy Hour Guidebook: Portland and the Oregon Wine Country Guidebook.
Bill Simmons, writer of ESPN’s online column “Sports Guy’s World,” will be visiting a Beaverton Borders bookstore on Thursday, Nov. 19, to talk about his new book, The Book of Basketball. Simmons is also the executive producer of the new ESPN documentary series 30 for 30 and he is a lifelong NBA fanatic. The book explains his love of basketball from an early age and growing up near the Boston Garden, home of the Boston Celtics.
Scott G. Browne will be visiting Powell’s today to read from his new book Breathers, a romantic zombie comedy set in an alternative reality where zombies live among humans in a world where they have no respect.
Leonard Zeskind has a story to tell you, a story that may seem all too familiar and reiterates the social problems of racism in contemporary and historical society.
Why did one of the most influential and well-known musicians—whose songs “Folsom Prison Blues” and “Walk the Line” previously topped the charts and received major radio airplay—have to publicly write Billboard magazine asking the media to take notice of his new single “Ballad of Ira Hayes?”
Gideon Lamb and Jeremiah Smallchild are a satirical, bible-thumping, folk music duo called God’s Pottery. In their new book, What Would God’s Pottery Do?
After a visit to Powell’s Books on Monday, Nov. 2, Daniel Arnold, the author of Early Days in the Range of Light: Encounters with Legendary Mountaineers, will be stopping by Annie Bloom’s Books.
Leerom Medovoi, director of the Portland Center for Public Humanities at Portland State, has been planning the second annual Trajectories of Cosmopolitanism event series at Portland State University.
There are some things we usually joke about, like politics, religion and celebrities. One thing we usually don’t laugh about is death.