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Pies, Pies, Pies!
November 5, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Multnomah Whiskey Library
The Multnomah Whiskey Library is thrilled to partner with Literary Arts for a Brunch Social to celebrate the art of pie. Guests will enjoy mimosas, classic cocktails, and a beautiful brunch buffet complete with an endless selection of pies from local bakeries. Meet authors Stacey Mei Yan Fong of 50 Pies For the Love of 50 States and Kate Lebo of Pie School: Lessons in Fruit, Flour, & Butter who will be available for book signing. Haven’t picked up the book yet? Don’t worry, Portland’s favorite cookbook shop, Vivienne Kitchen & Pantry will be on hand and stocked to sell these beautiful books on site. We look forward to a lovely brunch for the LOVE OF PIES!
This event is an official part of the Literary Arts Portland Book Festival Cover to Cover program, which expands the festival into a weeklong event, with programming all over Portland. Please note that this event is being run by one of our program partners in the community, and is not produced by Literary Arts. Please visit pdxbookfest.org for more information and event details.
Bios
Stacey Mei Yan Fong
Kate Lebo – CANCELED
Updated Friday 11/3 at 10:30 a.m.
Unfortunately, Kate Lebo had to cancel her festival appearance.
Kate Lebo’s classic cookbook Pie School: Lessons in Fruit, Flour & Butter was rereleased with new content by Sasquatch Books in August 2023. Her first collection of essays, The Book of Difficult Fruit (FSG) won the Washington State Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Other recent work includes the chapbook Seven Prayers to Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Entre Rios Books) and the anthology Pie & Whiskey: Writers Under the Influence of Butter and Booze (Sasquatch Books), which she edited with Samuel Ligon. Her essay about listening through hearing loss, “The Loudproof Room,” originally published in New England Review, was anthologized in Best American Essays. She is also the author of the poetry/ephemera/recipe collection A Commonplace Book of Pie (Chin Music Press). Her essays and poems have appeared most recently in Orion Magazine, Cake Zine, Harper’s Magazine, Crazyhorse, Alaska Quarterly Review, and The Inlander, among other places. A graduate of the University of Washington’s MFA program and Western Washington University, she’s also the recipient of grants from Spokane Arts and Artist Trust. Through the Arts Heritage Apprenticeship Program from the Washington Center for Cultural Traditions, she is an apprenticed cheesemaker to Lora Lea Misterly of Quillisascut Farm. She lives in Spokane, Washington.