"Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland author Mark Lawton for a reading from his new story collection, Updates from the Senior Center. "If you can't laugh, you'll cry, so don't cry" is Mark's advice to anyone supporting an aging parent in this gently humorous zine that does justice to a larger-than-life figure who's no longer quite as steady on his feet as he used to be. Lawton will be in conversation with Jackie Shannon Hollis, whose memoir is This Particular Happiness: A Childless Love Story." (Promo Copy)