October 16, 2019 Page 7 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 A full service flower experience • Birthdays • Anniversaries • Funerals • Weddings Open: Mon.-Fri. 7:30am til 5:30pm Saturday 9am til 2pm. Website: avalonflowerspdx.com email: avalonflowers@msn.com We Offer Wire Services Award-winning journalist and best-selling author Ta-Nehisi Coates and his new book ‘The Water Dancer.’