Brian Doyle, editor of the University of Portland’s renowned Portland Magazine, is the author of many books of essays, poems, nonfiction, and fiction, notably the novels Mink River and The Plover. His new collection of essays, Children & Other Wild Animals, will be published in October by Oregon State University Press. His work has been reprinted in the Best American Essays, Best American Science and Nature Writing, and Best Spiritual Writing annual anthologies, and among honors for his headlong prose is the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Award in Literature. Thursday, October 30 7 p.m., Buckley Center Auditorium