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TOM HANKS IN CONVERSATION

Thu, May 18, 2023 from 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm PDT
222 SW Clay St. Portland, Oregon 97201

$30–$90

PLEASE NOTE: VENUE CHANGE!

This event is now being presented at the Keller Auditorium at 222 SW Clay St., Portland. Portland’5 will issue current ticket holders new tickets to this event. Look for an email from portland5@paciolan.com for your new tickets, and print them at home or save to your phone.


Literary Arts presents a special event with legendary actor, filmmaker, and writer Tom Hanks, in conversation about his new novel The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece. Tom Hanks will be joined in conversation with novelist and screenwriter Jon Raymond.

About the book:

The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece is a novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film…and the humble comic books that inspired it. Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, while also capturing the changes in America and American culture since World War II.

Tickets in price level 1 ($90 + fees) include a copy of The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece (to be received at event).

 

 


Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks has won Academy Awards for best actor for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. He has starred in, among many other films, BigSleepless in SeattleApollo 13Saving Private RyanThe Green MileCast AwayCatch Me If You CanCaptain PhillipsBridge of SpiesSullyToy StoryThe Post, and It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. His writing has appeared in The New York TimesVanity Fair, and The New Yorker. He is also the author of a best-selling collection of stories, Uncommon Type.
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Jon Raymond

Jon Raymond is the author of the novels The Half-LifeRain Dragon, and Freebird, and the story collection Livability, winner of the Oregon Book Award. He has collaborated on six films with the director Kelly Reichardt, including Old JoyWendy and LucyMeek’s CutoffNight MovesFirst Cow, and the forthcoming Showing Up, numerous of which have been based on his fiction. He also received an Emmy Award nomination for his screenwriting on the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce directed by Todd Haynes and starring Kate Winslet. He was the editor of Plazm Magazine, associate and contributing editor at Tin House magazine, and a member of the Board of Directors at Literary Arts. His writing has appeared in ZoetropePlayboyTin HouseThe Village VoiceArtforumBookforum, and other places. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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