Welcome to the Loggernaut Reading Series.

The Loggernaut Reading Series is back!
Wednesday, October 29th, 7:30pm, at Urban Grind in Northeast Portland.


The prompt: SCARY.

The readers: Rodney Koeneke, Tom Spanbauer, and Lidia Yuknavitch. Learn more about them here.

Urban Grind is located at 2214 NE Oregon Street, a few blocks north of Sandy at NE 22nd Ave.

Here's a map.

Here's a bike map.

Here's a trip planner for bus/streetcar/light rail.

So: no excuses! See you there.

If you haven't read these conversations yet, now is a fine time to do so:

• the crackling Jim Shepard
• the prolific Jonathan Raban
• playwright Michael John Garcés
• novelist Sam Lipsytegenre bender David Shields
• poet abroad Alice Notley
• the inimitable Paula Fox
• Pankaj Mishra on Buddhism and intellectuals
• novelist Nina Revoyr returns to an old haunt.
• and much more

If you would like to find out about upcoming readings, or about new interviews and conversations on this site, please join our mailing list. Write to log at loggernaut dot org and put 'mailing list' in the subject line. (We use the list sparingly, and do not share it.)

Rodney Koeneke is the author of the poetry collections Musee Mechanique and Rouge State, as well as a chapbook, Rules for Drinking Forties, due out this fall. His work is included in The Flarf Anthology forthcoming in 2009. He lives in Portland, where he helps curate The Tangent Reading Series.

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Tom Spanbauer was raised in Idaho, spent two years in the Peace Corps in Kenya, and for the past fifteen years has lived in Portland, where he teaches Dangerous Writing workshops. He's the author of the novels Now Is the Hour, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon, In the City of Shy Hunters, and Faraway Places.

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Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of three books of short stories: Her Other Mouths, Liberty's Excess, and Real to Reel. Her work has appeared numerous journals and anthologies. She teaches writing, literature, film and women's studies at Mt. Hood Community College.

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Mississippi Studios is located at 3939 N. Mississippi Avenue in Portland, Oregon.