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Anna Keesey

Oct

31

2012

Furtive Sex and Pancakes

“So who might want to fall into the world of Little Century? Readers with some combination of these interests: historical fiction, coming of age stories, Northwestern history, settlers, cows, cowboys, native people, sheep, homesteaders, geology, printing presses, jokes about Swedes, jokes about chickens, jokes about horses, lupine, rabbitbrush, sage and juniper, moral quandaries, furtive kitchen …

Jun

14

2012

‘Becharmed’ by Beverly Cleary

“Beverly Cleary recently turned 96, and she may have taken a well-deserved step away from the writing desk. The children she has invented are permanent, indelible in the history of such writing. Yet it’s important for her fans, young and, um, older, to appreciate that such work does not come from the air. A writer’s …

Jun

13

2012

2

remarks

Announcing Five Winners
and Another Chance to Score a Book!

Congrats to the winners of our re-launch giveaways. Village Books denizen Al Clay won the stack of 14 World Book Night paperbacks. Kristen Becker, of Portland, won five titles from Hawthorne Books. Christi Crutchfield, of Portland, won Calyx Books’ package: an Ursula K. Le Guin broadside; a three-issue subscription to CALYX Journal and a copy of …

Jun

7

2012

Introducing Anna Keesey and
Her Feminist Western, Little Century

We’re pleased to introduce you to Anna Keesey if you haven’t met her yet. Her debut novel, Little Century, came out this week and is already getting raves from all over the country. Keesey is a graduate of Stanford University and of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Her work has appeared in a number of journals and …

Jun

6

2012

‘Little Century’ Scores Rave Review

Most Northwest booksellers have already seen and loved Little Century, the debut novel by McMinnville, OR resident and Linfield professor Anna Keesey. Cathy Langer, the lead buyer at the Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver, CO, has posted her review of Little Century, which pretty much assures the book of a huge national audience. Cathy says: “It’s …

May

31

2012

Little Century by Anna Keesey

“Recently orphaned eighteen-year-old Esther Chambers heads west to Century, Oregon to live with her only living relative, distant cousin and cattle rancher Ferris Pickett. As Esther stakes a claim on Ferris’s behalf alongside a small lake, she learns the ways of frontier life as well as the politics of the local town. In Century, the …

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