Author Lisa Margonelli will read from her book “Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline” and discuss current issues on oil consumption from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, in the UO Knight Library Browsing Room.

The reading is part of the UO School of Journalism and Communication’s Annual PageTurners class, which is facilitated by Peter Laufer, SOJC professor and the James Wallace Chair in Journalism. The class encourages students to engage in a close reading of text and offers a rare opportunity for students to have a focused, intimate conversation with writers about their creative writing experience.

Margonelli’s book examines the people, pipelines and politics behind oil consumption. Research for the book took her from a gas station to a refinery, a drilling rig and finally, to the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Lisa Margonelli is currently an Irvine Fellow at the New America Foundation. She has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, Wired, Business 2.0, Discover and Jane. She earned a Sundance Institute Fellowship and an excellence in journalism award from the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists.