A Writer’s Loft presents New York Times bestselling author Rinker Buck, who will discuss his just-out paperback edition of “The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey,” an award-winning account of traveling the length of the Oregon trail the old-fashioned way – in a covered wagon with a team of mules, while accompanied by his larger-than-life brother and a filthy Jack Russell terrier.

WHEN: 7 p.m. Thursday

WHERE: The Music Hall Loft, 131 Congress St., Portsmouth, N.H.

HOW MUCH: $31, members $29

INFO: 603-436-2400; themusichall.org