Tag: Northwest Women Writers Symposium

NWWS: A reading and talk by bestselling “Farm City” author Novella Carpenter

[ May 9, 2015; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_20199" align="alignright" width="200"] Novella Carpenter[/caption]

Eugene Public Library
100 W. 10th St. (10th and Olive)
Eugene, OR

Best-selling journalist and memoirist Novella Carpenter will read from and talk about her books including her urban farm experience in downtown Oakland, California. Carpenter is the author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer and Gone Feral: Tracking My […]

NWWS: Reading & talk with writer Diana Abu-Jaber

[ May 7, 2015; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_19883" align="alignright" width="176"] Diana Abu-Jaber / photo by Scott Eason[/caption]

Eugene Public Library
100 W. 10th St.
Eugene, OR 97401

Radio interview with KLCC, May 7: http://klcc.org/post/womens-stories-food-and-resilience-diana-abu-jaber
Radio interview with Jefferson Public Radio, May 6: http://ijpr.org/post/diana-abu-jaber-large

“Food is such a great human connector; it’s so intimate. And Middle Eastern food, when it’s done well, is amazing. I thought…let the food […]

NWWS: A conversation with bestselling “Farm City” author Novella Carpenter

[ May 8, 2015; 1:00 pm to 2:20 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_20199" align="alignright" width="200"] Novella Carpenter[/caption]

UO Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.

Best-selling journalist and memoirist Novella Carpenter will talk about her urban farm experience in downtown Oakland, California in a conversation moderated by award-winning food blogger Jennifer Burns Bright (UO Departments of English and Comparative Literature). Carpenter is the author of Farm City: The Education of […]

NWWS: The Language of Baklava, a panel discussion with and about Diana Abu-Jaber

[ May 8, 2015; 2:30 pm to 4:15 pm. ] UO Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.

“Diana Abu-Jaber’s vibrant, humorous memoir weaves together stories of being raised by a food-obsessed Jordanian father with talks of Lake Ontario cookouts and feasts under Bedouin tents in the desert. These sensuously evoked meals, complete with recipes, in turn illuminate the two cultures of Diana’s childhood—American and Jordanian—while helping to […]