Celebrating Writers of Sybilline Press

Temple Lentz — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

As part of the Portland Book Festival's Cover to Cover events, Broadway Books is honored to celebrate four writers of Sibylline Press: Polly Dugan with her new novel The House of Cavanaugh, Suzanne Samuels with her new novel Seeds of the Pomegranate, Erin Van Rheenen with her new novel You Could Be Happy Here, and Temple Lentz with her new novel Not Quite Home.

Broadway Books
1714 NE Broadway Street
Portland, OR 97232
6-7pm

See more about all of the authors here.

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Author Reading: Temple Lentz, Not Quite Home, in Conversation with David Stuart MacLean

Temple Lentz — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Temple Lentz will discuss her new book Not Quite Home. She will be joined in conversation by David Stuart MacLean. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion.

Books will be available to purchase at the event.

For more information, please visit 57th Books’ site here.

57th Street Books
1301 E. 57th St
Chicago IL 60637
Link to event page

In Not Quite Home: Claire, wealthy and recently widowed, is adrift. She has access to tools to make a real difference but can’t figure out where to apply them. Erica, a young outreach worker to the homeless, has grown so cynical about the broken system that she’s breaking rules herself—and for that, she’s about to get fired. One day, Erica finds Claire giving away gourmet sandwiches and twenty-dollar bills at a homeless encampment, and yanks her out of there with a lecture about systemic problems and feel-good solutions. Their conflict soon becomes a partnership, and they craft a plan to help ten unhoused women get off the streets and build a community of their own. Together, they navigate nasty neighbors and difficult politicians. And just when it seems like they’re going to pull it off, a shadow from one woman’s past jeopardizes the entire project.

Temple Lentz is a nonprofit CEO and former local elected official. Her writing has appeared in several weekly newspapers and a couple of anthologies. She attended the University of Chicago as an undergrad and lived in an apartment one block over and two floors up from this book store. This is her first book.

David Stuart MacLean is a PEN/America award winning essayist. His memoir, The Answer to the Riddle is Me, was published in 2014. He’s also published a novel, How I Learned To Hate in Ohio. He lives in Chicago with his wife and two kids and a dog and a cat.

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Celebrating Writers of Sybilline Press

Author Reading: Temple Lentz, Not Quite Home, in Conversation with David Stuart MacLean