It doesn’t get much more Oregon than Matt Love reviewing the new sesquicentennial-celebrating compilation by Portland State University’s Ooligan Press. Yes, sixteen of the contributors are Love’s students at Newport High. And, yes, he is one proud Papa. But this really is a book we Oregonians should get behind, full of grit and fun, like a great day at the Oregon Country Fair (which one of Love’s students has lovingly written about in her piece, “Oregon Country Fair: That’s How I Live”). The book contains 150 stories, mostly minimemoirs and vignettes, and even a few poems, many of them of the coming to Oregon narrative sort. “You are not reading a book of high literature here,” writes Kim Stafford in his introduction. “You are eavesdropping at the family gathering.”
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Love for Ooligan's Oregon Stories
August 23, 2010
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