Oregon Humanities

Oregon Humanities Holiday Fete

Celebrate the new issue of Oregon Humanities magazine, meet some of Oregon’s best-known writers, spin the Wheel of Cogitation, and get your last-minute holiday shopping done—all at the Oregon Humanities Holiday Fete.

Join us on Monday, December 20, 2010, from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Cleaners, 403 SW 10th Ave., Portland. A suggested donation of $5 supports Oregon Humanities and gives you a chance to do the following:

Meet sixteen Oregon poets, essayists, novelists, journalists, memoirists, editors, photographers, short story writers, and illustrators, and purchase signed copies of their newest books, just in time for holiday giving:

• Kate Bingaman Burt (Obsessive Consumption)
• Brian Doyle (Mink River, Moral Ground)
• Harriet Fasenfest (The Householder’s Guide to the Universe)
• James C. Foster (Bong Hits 4 Jesus)
• Randy Gragg (Where the Revolution Began)
• Debra Gwartney (Live Through This, Home Ground)
• Lauren Kessler (My Teenage Werewolf, Stubborn Twig)
• Tom Krattenmaker (Onward Christian Athletes)
• Ursula K. Le Guin and Roger Dorband (Out Here)
• Guy Maynard (The Risk of Being Ridiculous)
• Win McCormack (The Rajneesh Chronicles)
• Scott Nadelson (The Cantor’s Daughter)
• R. Gregory Nokes (Massacred for Gold)
• Paulann Petersen (The Voluptuary)
• Mary Rechner (Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women)

Listen to Live Wire Radio’s Courtenay Hameister, novelist Scott Nadelson, and University of Portland professor Andrew Guest read their essays from the Ha! issue of Oregon Humanities magazine. (Reading will begin at 5:30.)

Plus: take home a free copy of the Ha! issue, spin the Wheel of Cogitation, and enter a drawing to win books, event tickets, and O. Hm. t-shirts and journals.

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