I’ve been asked a handful of times in the last couple of weeks: “How do you know Cheryl Strayed?” Here’s the short version, spoken by Cheryl: “In some interesting way it was your mother who brought us together, through my mother. They were the original contact. I wrote in The Sun about how much I …
We love, love, love this story about two Powell’s booksellers geeking out over Richard Brautigan’s former lover. The woman stopped by the store last week to pick up a copy of Brautigan’s story collection Revenge of the Lawn and mentioned to bookseller/author/editor/publisher Kevin Sampsell that she was the woman on the cover, the one smiling over …
“Like an old shoebox full of family snapshots, some happy, some faded, some blurred and some very dark indeed, A Common Pornography makes a brutally honest collage of the author’s childhood. The voice is recognizable and true, the memories alternately familiar and disturbing. A dreamy kid makes construction-paper 45′s of his future hit records. A …
