Where the Wild Things Are: Seeing Ourselves in Animals

Steven Church is the author of The Guinness Book of Me: A Memoir of Record, Theoretical Killings: Essays and Accidents, The Day After ‘The Day After’: My Atomic Angst, and Ultrasonic, which was featured in the Los Angeles Times, The Paris Review, and Tin House, among others. His most recent work is One with the Tiger. His essays have been published and anthologized widely, including in the Best American Essays and most recently in After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays. He teaches in the MFA Program at Fresno State, where he is the Hallowell Professor of Creative Writing.

Elena Passarello is an actor, essayist, and recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Paris Review, and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018, and has been translated into German, Italian, French, and Mandarin. She is the author of the essay collections Let Me Clear My Throat and Animals Strike Curious Poses, the latter of which won the 2018 Oregon Book Award in Creative Nonfiction and made the Best Books of 2017 lists in the New York Times, Guardian, and Publisher's Weekly. Passarello teaches creative writing at Oregon State University and appears weekly on the nationally-syndicated PRI radio variety show LiveWire!. Visit her online at elenapassarello.com.

Oliver Uberti, an award-winning designer and visual journalist, is a former senior design editor for National Geographic. James and Oliver’s best-selling debut, London: The Information Capital, won three British Cartographic Society Awards for cartographic excellence. His most recent book is Where the Animals Go. Also appearing in partner event:

Science On Tap - Where the Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics

When: Monday, November 13 Venue: Alberta Rose Theater, 3000 NE Alberta Street, Portland, OR 97211 Time: 7:00 p.m. (Doors 6:00 p.m.)

Featuring Oliver Uberti. More info and tickets.

Jon Mooallem is a longtime writer at large for The New York Times Magazine and a contributor to numerous radio shows and other magazines, including This American Life and Wired. His first book, Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America was chosen as a notable book of the year by The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, NPR’s Science Friday, and Canada’s National Post, among others. His most recent book is This is Chance! The Shaking of an All-American City, A Voice That Held It Together. He lives on Bainbridge Island, outside Seattle, with his family.

---

Purchase this is Chance! from POWELL'S BOOKS, one of our Portland-based, independent bookstore partners HERE.

All books purchased through festival events, from Annie Bloom’s Books, BROADWAY BOOKS, Green Bean Books, or Powell’s Books support the authors and publishers who share their work at the festival and the booksellers who have worked hard to keep their businesses open during these difficult times. Please buy early and often and know that by purchasing books you are supporting the sustainability of the festival.