Novelist and short story writer Matt Briggs will read in CCC’s Literary Arts Center (Rook 220) at 7 pm on November 7. The event is open and free to the public.
Briggs is the author of three collections of short stories, The Remains of River Names, Misplaced Alice, and The Moss Gatherers. His first novel, Shoot the Buffalo, won the American Book Award in 2006. He lives in Seattle with his wife and daughter.
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Seed Cake // November 1, 2007 at 1:42 am |
We went to the carnival yesterday in Federal Way at the mall. In the paper in the morning, I read in the paper that Federal Way was going to begin building skyscrapers because they didn’t have space anymore for sprawl. The developers said nearly gleefully that skyscrapers weren’t in the character of the area — meaning he was an explorer in the character of the area; he would be doing something that had not been in done in the area before. The skyscrapers will overlook the entire region, out to Puget Sound and the Olympics and west to Mount Rainier and the Cascade Mountains. I am also excited by the prospect of skyscrapers full of people at work. My daughter when she heard this news said that maybe when I lose this job I can get a job there. This made me eagerly await losing my job.
The carnival had been set up in the mall parking lot between the Sears and the Macy’s and under the bright blue gigantic tank of drinking water. A native American northwest coast art had been painted on the outside. A utility corridor ran alongside the mall, tall wire frame utility poles shaped like three-dimensional stick figures held huge cables into he sky. On the bright sun on the parking lot asphalt the poles were black against the cloudy sky. Huge blue breaks were in the sky. The sun lay behind a cloud but otherwise it a sunny day and warm but not a pleasant sunny day. The sunlight was too direct. It made everyone squint. I felt as if someone was pinching my eyes.
Briggs-adoon « TREVOR DODGE // November 5, 2007 at 7:12 pm |
[...] info By trevor Categories: fiction and happenings I’ll be hosting Matt Briggs’ reading at CCC this Wednesday night. If you live in the Portland area, please come out. Now that baseball season’s over, you [...]