We’re looking at a great weekend!

Friday — Credited with the current revival of the literary memoir, Mary Karr knows a thing or two about the form. She’s in conversation with Cheryl Strayed. (Powell’s Books on Burnside)

Saturday —  Bryan C. Parker’s Beat Happening’s Beat Happening is the story of a band that popularized do-it-yourself projects and home recording decades before the digital revolution. He’s joined at the event by Beat Happening and K Records founder Calvin Johnson. (Powell’s Books on Burnside)

Sunday — Vu Tran’s Dragonfish is a thrilling and cinematic work of sophisticated suspense and haunting lyricism, set in motion by characters who can neither trust each other nor themselves. (Powell’s Books on Hawthorne)

Franklin Veaux’s The Game Changer is the true story of a game-changing relationship that altered not only Franklin and Celeste’s lives, but the face of the modern polyamory movement. (Powell’s Books on Burnside)