June 15, 2010
Read Matt Love's spirited (does Matt Love write any other way?!?) paean to the novels of Oregonian Don Berry on the Powell's blog. The trilogy Trask, Moontrap and To Build a Ship, all set in pioneer-era Oregon, were reprinted a few year
s ago by Oregon State University Press. Love asks: “Has any writer in American literature summed up our collective national sickness any better?”
We also love this quote, from Berry: “In Oregon after two days of rain it seems as though it has been raining since the world began, and you cannot remember the last time you saw the sun.”
— posted by
Jamie
