Today is the on-sale date for the debut dystopian novel American War. Publisher Penguin Random House asked the author, Portland resident Omar Al Akkad, about the book. For the full interview, visit the publisher’s page. The author has an event at Powell’s in Portland on Friday, April 7 at 7:30. Q: When did you begin working …
With the weather cooling and school back in session, we say goodbye to summer reading. But do not mourn the loss of the season. For with the end of summer comes the exciting fall book releases! I’ve been pining for the likes of Lia Habel’s Dearly, Beloved, prequels like James Dashner’s The Kill Order and …
Whenever we buy a book, we say we buy a “copy” of it. We buy a copy of Gravity’s Rainbow, say, and we carry our copy home. We open it; we fall into it. And it is here that the word “copy” fails. Because what I experience when I read Gravity’s Rainbow, or Beloved, or …
