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May

11

2011

Conversations

It’s Not About About: An Interview with Poet/Farrier Michael Earl Craig

Livingston, Montana poet Michael Earl Craig was educated at the University of Montana, the University of Massachusetts, and the Kentucky Horseshoeing School. He has published three collections of poetry, most recently Thin Kimono, out last year from Wave Books, the highly regarded poetry press in Seattle. There’s no sense of the cookie-cutter in Craig’s poetry tool kit; his poems feature an unusually wide variety of styles, from grounded lyrics concerned with his working world to collage to dream-like pieces filled with surreal imagery. He is interviewed by John W. Marshall …

May

10

2011

Borrowed Copy

'Literary Omnivore' DeWeese Talks Shop at OPB

Oregon Public Broadcasting has a great interview with Portland author and publisher Dan DeWeese on its website. On camera DeWeese talks about how it was easier than he’d thought it would be to break into the publishing industry. DeWeese’s Propeller Books published its debut novel, Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women by Mary Rechner, last fall. …

May

10

2011

Face Out

The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times by Carol Deppe

“As gardeners, over the years, Jack and I have acquired some really good gardening books. There always seems to be just one more that we must have, and this is the one for this year. As a reference book, it doesn’t get more local than this; Carol is a scientist and plant breeder here in …

May

9

2011

One Nightstand

The Third by Abel Keogh + GIVEAWAY

Just finished Abel Keogh’s dystopian fiction, The Third, which drops you directly into a world where children are seen as a nuisance and, worse, expendable.

May

9

2011

Face Out

Last Night in Montreal by Emily St John Mandel

“A child is abducted by her father and a restless lifestyle of motels and endless roads ensues. The sense of drifting follows the protagonist into adulthood and infects all who are drawn to her. An exploration of family, of rootlessness and its opposite—and their effects.”—Hillary, Annie Bloom’s Books, Portland

May

8

2011

Face Out

To Market, to Market by Nikki McClure

“Every child (and probably every adult) should own this book. Nikki McClure’s To Market, To Market takes you on a trip to a local farmer’s market. She introduces you to the vendors and explores how they cultivate their products. Very cool and very timely for our supermarket culture.”—Kaitlyn, University of Oregon Duck Store, Eugene

May

7

2011

Face Out

The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif Larsen

“This is the literary equivalent to slow food. A glimpse into the notebooks, observations and reflections of 12-year-old Spivet, whose passion is cartography, that is, the mapping of more or less everything in his experience, from his sister shucking corn on the back porch to the bullet that kills his brother, and even the well-imagined …

May

6

2011

Borrowed Copy

Filming Starts on As Cool As I Am

One of the Northwest booksellers’ favorite authors, Pete Fromm, is finally seeing a feature film made from one of his novels, As Cool As I Am, which was published in 2004. Fromm, who has won four Awards from the Northwest Booksellers, will soon be on his way to France for a tour promoting the paperback …

May

6

2011

Face Out

Magic to the Bone by Devon Monk

“My friends and customers know I love science fiction and fantasy. But even when SFF is set on Earth, it tends to take place in great big cities where I do not live. So imagine my joy when I realized that bridge in on the cover of Magic to the Bone was MY bridge, my …

May

5

2011

One Nightstand

Swell by Corwin Ericson

In the first page or two of this book (due in Sept from Dark Coast Press), I knew it would either be fabulous or awful; I would either sink into the voice or feel put off by it.

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