Did you see Bend, OR author Jane Kirkpatrick on Book TV from C-SPAN Book TV? She was interviewed at her house about her book, Homestead. Author Tom DeWolf was also interviewed and local historians regarding Bend/Central Oregon. The interviews are on the C-SPAN website.
Amanda MacNaughton has worked at Paulina Springs Books for six years, and she’s been in the book world for seventeen. Her first bookselling job was at her college bookstore in Illinois, when she was eighteen. Since then she’s worked at the Deschutes Public Library and at Barnes & Noble in Bend, OR. Tired of corporate bookselling, she …
Bend’s literary non-profit The Nature of Words has opened a literary-arts themed boutique at its Storefront Project in downtown Bend and invites local artists to contribute their stuff. The shop features journals, word games, books and souvenirs from The Nature of Words literary festival. The Storefront Project is based on 826 Valencia, Dave Eggers’ creative writing program …
“Waterston writes of her decades spent as a rancher and resident of Central Oregon in a collection of pieces about its landscape, history, and characters past and present. I love the stories of the gritty people who inhabit this spare region and the wisdom she gains from them. Waterston portrays a wide view of the …
