I’ve got a clever name for you. And one of the cooler events in the city. Wordstock. These are clever sorts these Portland literati. And they’re building a great literary festival befitting a city that has its own City of Books.

The festival returns for its third year on November 8-11, 2007, at the Oregon Convention Center. This year they say there will be more than 200 writers, numerous readings, workshops, panels — it’s a bona fide book nerd’s paradise.

So if that’s you, if you love books, love certain writers (Carl Hiaasen, Dave Eggers, Jane Hamilton will all be there), love panel discussions(?) or are just want to do some book shopping (it includes a big book fair) for your empty bedside table at Hotel deLuxe, then I guess you’ve got next week pretty well planned.

R.I.F.,
Emily