October 16, 2019
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Arts &
Avalon Flowers
520 SW 3rd Ave., Portland,
OR 97204 • 503-796-9250
ENTERTAINMENT
Seats filled for Author’s Talk
It will be a big night when
award-winning journalist and
best-selling author Ta-Nehisi
Coates comes to Portland for a
Monday, Oct. 21 conversation at
the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
with best-selling author and Port-
land native Renee Watson. The
Literary Arts-sponsored event is
sold out.
Coates is celebrating his latest
book, The Water Dancer, a bold-
ly imagined work of magic and
adventure that offers a bracing-
ly original vision of the world of
slavery.
Coates is a distinguished writer
in residents at New York Univer-
sity’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism
Institute. He is the author of the
best-selling books The Beautiful
Struggle, We Were Eight Years in
Power and Between the World and
Me, which won the National Book
Award in 2015. He is also the cur-
rent author of the Marvel comics
The Black Panther and Captain
America.
Cori Stewart--
Owner, Operator
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Award-winning
journalist and
best-selling
author Ta-Nehisi
Coates and his new book ‘The Water Dancer.’