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SUMMARY:Portrait of the Artist: Alicia Jo Rabins & Ed Park
DESCRIPTION:Both coming of age in the 90s\, Ed Park (Three Tenses: A Transmission from the Nineties) and Alicia Jo Rabins (When We’re Born We Forget Everything) come together to discuss their new memoirs exploring a shared through line of coming into your voice and identity as an artist while surrounded by many different influences. Moderated by OPB reporter\, Lillian Karabaic. \n\n\n\nAbout When We’re Born We Forget Everything:\n\nFrom the creator of the internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter project Girls in Trouble\, a memoir following her journey from a secular Jewish childhood to becoming a modern queer woman owning ancient teachings and finding her own meanings in them\, refracted through feminist interpretations of the lives of Biblical women. \n“Alicia Jo Rabins writes as if she’s in conversation with the divine itself. . . .This isn’t merely a book to be read—it’s a scripture for the searching heart\, a reminder that the border between the human and the holy is\, and always has been\, porous.” \n—Reza Aslan\, author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth \nAs a self-described ‘90s suburban high school weirdo\, Alicia Jo Rabins spent her time practicing violin and smoking cigarettes behind the mall while secretly dreaming of setting out on a spiritual quest no one around her seemed to understand. She often found herself drawn to the more ritualistic and rigorous Judaism that her parents had abandoned to assimilate and “become American.” In college\, a chance meeting led her on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to study rabbinical texts (and play bluegrass fiddle on the street for cash). But that two years of immersing herself in traditional observance was only the start of a journey full of twists and turns. \nWhen When We’re Born We Forget Everything follows Alicia’s relentless\, often embarrassing\, sometimes enlightening search for the sacred in everyday life as she tours America playing with a klezmer-punk band\, falls in and out of love\, scrapes through the initiations of motherhood\, and witnesses the beauty—and danger—of mysticism. Rabins braids this personal narrative with the hidden stories of biblical women\, uncovering a path of queer identity\, feminist awakening\, and spiritual self-invention. This lyrical\, searching memoir is a meditation on longing\, lineage\, and what it takes to find meaning in a fractured world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Three Tenses: A Transmission from the Nineties:\n\n\n\nAn elegant\, iridescent mosaic of autobiographical fragments\, both real and invented\, forming a portrait of a creative life\, from the life of the Pulitzer Prize finalist for Same Bed Different Dreams \nIn 1998\, Ed Park wrote a memoir and saved it to the vanishing technology of the floppy disk\, losing it for more than twenty years. Until one day\, emptying out an old\, unmarked box in his family’s cramped New York City home\, he came across a hefty manila folder. Out slid the only remaining copy of Three Tenses. \nThe piece of writing that Park found—“a voice lesson\, a language experiment\, an autobiography with lies\, a document of sustained artistic bliss of a sort that I have never found again”—was an assemblage of beguiling anecdotes\, sly observations\, and collected esoterica\, produced within the confines of the shoebox apartment of his twenties and only now allowed to see the light of day. Two Ed Parks emerge on the page: within the prose of the young\, struggling writer arises the voice of the artist he would become. \nProfound\, wily\, and beautifully wrought\, Three Tenses is a meeting of memory and myth\, confession and obfuscation\, coalescing to offer a singular picture of creativity in action.
URL:https://pdxbookfest.org/event/portrait-of-the-artist/
LOCATION:The Old Church\, 1422 SW 11th Ave\, Portland\, OR\, 97205
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