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Pacific Northwest Book Award Winner The Estimable Brian Doyle Reading, Jan. 19

January 15, 2016

University of Portland - new faculty & staff photosBrian Doyle, award-winning essayist, novelist and editor of Portland magazine, will read from several of his new books at 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday, January 19, in the Pilot House bookstore. Doyle is the author of many books of essays, poems, and fiction, among them the sprawling Oregon novel Mink River and the sea novel The Plover. Doyle’s most recently published books include So Very Much the Best of Us (essays), How the Light Gets In (poems), Reading in Bed (essays), Martin Marten (novel), and A Book of Uncommon Prayer (prayers). The reading is sponsored by the Garaventa Center.

For more information or ADA accommodations, contact the Garaventa Center at 7702 or garaventa@up.edu.

Filed Under: 01-04-2016, 01-11-2016, 01-18-2016, Campus Services, Events, Garaventa Center Tagged With: Brian Doyle, Garaventa Center

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