By Amy Wang | The Oregonian/OregonLive

Notes from The Oregonian/OregonLive books desk.

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(Chuck Palahniuk photo by Alan Amato)

A Chuck Palahniuk night

Portland's Chuck Palahniuk, he of "Fight Club" fame, and Milwaukie's Dark Horse Books have collaborated on his latest book, "Legacy: An Off-Color Novella For You to Color" (Dark Horse Books, 152 pages, $19.99), and will celebrate it with a night of music, snacks, prizes and more. Amy Faust of the radio show "Mike and Amy in the Morning" will host while local songwriters perform original songs inspired by the book. The riches-to-rags satire has color-in illustrations by Steve Morris, who worked on Palahniuk's 2016 adult coloring book, "Bait," and Mike Norton. The fun runs from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11, at Billy Webb Elks Lodge, 6 N. Tillamook St. Tickets are $10.

Palahniuk, who will attend the event, explained the book’s themes in an email: “Consider that the stakes always rise in a good story. Money and happiness make a good place to start. Beyond that, a writer can escalate to love. Immortality might seem like the ultimate goal, but then rescuing an endangered beloved trumps every priority. In ‘Legacy’ I wanted to cover all the bases.”

He added that he decided to create “Legacy” with color-in illustrations to fulfill his vision of “a Joseph Campbell-type myth in the form of a coloring book,” and to provide an opportunity for a book that could be personalized and become a legacy.

The story of “finishing” the book by coloring in the illustrations “should become the book's real value,” Palahniuk said. “Of the completed books, no two will be alike. That appeals to me.”

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Brian Doyle (Laszlo Bencze)

A "Brian Doyle Day"

The Lake Oswego Public Library, 706 Fourth St., will honor the late author with "Brian Doyle Day" on Monday, Nov. 6 – what would have been his 61st birthday. The public is invited to contribute to a memory tree and to attend a 7 p.m. dedication of the Brian Doyle Garden, which will be installed on the southeast corner of the library property, near Fourth Street and D Avenue. Doyle was a longtime Lake Oswego resident and his novel "Mink River" was chosen for the 2012 Lake Oswego Reads community literature program; the audiobook edition features the voices of dozens of community members. Doyle died in May from a brain tumor.

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This year's Doernbecher Freestyle XIV event featured this Nike Air Max Thea Ultra Flyknit shoe co-designed by Amyiah Robinson, 11, of Portland. (Tim Br

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"Sneakers"

Sneakerheads and shoe dogs, this one's for you. In "Sneakers" (Razorbill, 320 pages, $24.95), Rodrigo Corral, Alex French and Howie Kahn pay tribute to some of the biggest names in sneaker design, culture, branding and fashion. Portland is well represented with folks from Nike, Adidas and of course, the Doernbecher Freestyle Designers, patients at Doernbecher Children's Hospital who create limited-edition footwear as an annual fundraiser.

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Wild Arts Festival

Nearly 40 Northwest authors are scheduled to appear at the Portland Audubon Society's 37th annual Wild Arts Festival, which will also feature nearly 70 artists. Participating authors will sell and sign their novels, children's books, memoirs, cookbooks, guidebooks, nonfiction books and more, all of which relate to the natural world in some way. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Audubon Society's initiatives to promote the understanding, enjoyment and protection of native birds, other wildlife and their habitats, according to a press release. The festival runs from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 18, and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 19, at Montgomery Park, 2701 N.W. Vaughn St. Tickets: $8, free for ages 14 and younger, wildartsfestival.org or 503-292-6855.

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Queer book club

Portland's nonprofit Gertrude Literary Journal is launching Gertie, a delivery service that will send subscribers a box of queer-focused literary goodies once a quarter. According to a press release, subscribers can choose from either a Boy Box, Girl Box or Queer Box for their first shipment. All boxes will contain Kate Carroll de Gutes' essay collection "Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear," which won a 2016 Oregon Book Award and a Lambda Literary Award. "With our first selections, we're excited to bring our readers narratives that reflect queer lives in profound essays, an amazing novel, and some cutting edge short stories," Gertrude publisher Tammy Lynne Stoner said in a prepared statement. Subscriptions are $42 per quarter; sign up at gertrudepress.org. The first box ships Dec. 15.

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"Quackery"

Bend writer, librarian and historian Nate Pedersen has teamed up with physician-author Lydia Kang on the book "Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything" (Workman Publishing, 352 pages, $22.95). It's a fascinating compendium of all the misconceptions we once had about treatments and cures, among them that searing the temple with a red-hot iron rod would resolve a headache; that male doctors should treat women suffering from "hysteria" with "pelvic massages"; and that an all-grape diet could cure cancer. (It also makes one wonder how ludicrous some of the treatments and cures currently bruited about online will seem in a few decades.)

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