Kevin Tours, Charlie Speaks.

This weblog is primarily devoted to flogging my own precious projects and publications, but I'll provide pointers to other stuff occasionally. Please see my Magdalen Sez website if you'd like to read regular rantings and ridiculous reflections.

Anyhow: my charming & talented Portlandia writer friends Kevin Sampsell and Charles D'Ambrosio have upcoming events you should know about. Kevin will tour the country with The Insomnia Reader, which he just edited for Manic D Press. Tour info is on McSweeney's; it kicks off Feb 10 in Portland at Powell's Hawthorne at 7:30 pm.

Unfortunately, that's the same night Mr.D'Ambrosio will celebrate the publication of his knockout essay collection, Orphans, by the delightful Northwest upstart Clear Cut Press. (By "essays," they mean gorgeous and hilarious meditations on life in the Northwest, life as a writer, life in the rain—wonderful stuff.) The party features readings by the author and Stacey Levine, films by Matt McCormick, and music by someone sekrit. 7:30 pm, New American Art Union, on SE Ankeny between 9th and 10th in Portland.