Megan La Plante of Hawthorne Books interviewed author, publisher and long-time Portlander Ariel Gore about her new memoir, The End of Eve. ML: How does this memoir compare to your other published works? Was it a significant change of pace in terms of the tone you wanted to accomplish? AG: This is by far my …
Monica Wesolowska has had her fiction and nonfiction published in numerous venues, including Best New American Voices 2000, Literary Mama and the New York Times bestseller, My Little Red Book. She is a graduate of Portland’s Reed College and has taught at her hometown University, California Berkely, since 2002. She went back to school for this interview, answering …
Jay Ponteri’s new Hawthorne Books memoir, Wedlocked, was born from what he describes as a “Grand Canyon” sized rough patch in his marriage. It is his deeply private look at loneliness and failure within an American marriage and, as he considers the broader context, “our culture’s collective ubiquitous silence around this essential, mysterious aspect of …
At Broadway Books, we’re great fans of the books published by Portland-based publisher Hawthorne Books, under the guidance of owner and publisher Rhonda Hughes. They’re well chosen, well written, and well edited, and the books are beautifully produced, right down to the double-fold French flaps. So I was thrilled to be asked by NW Book …
When public figures make headlines saying inane things about women’s bodies, it’s clear we’re too penned in by ignorance. This is why Lidia Yukanavitch’s novel Dora: A Headcase (Hawthorne Books) is timely and valuable. The novel is a feminist reclamation of Freud’s infamous case study. Yukanavitch’s Dora has refused diagnosis and the hysteria of her …
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 …
To help us kick off the new site, some of our favorite publishers are offering giveaways—and there’s such good stuff here! Click on the CALYX ad and they’ll enter you to win a prize package that includes an Ursula K. Le Guin broadside, a three-issue subscription to CALYX Journal and a copy of their creative …
“It’s a good thing Scott Nadelson has a sense of humor; otherwise his stories could really bum you out. All eight of the stories in Aftermath begin, as you might expect, with things falling apart. Six involve romantic break ups; the other two explore parental abandonment and fallout from an accident. We sympathize with his …
Last month Northwest Book Lovers published a piece about Lidia Yuknavitch‘s forthcoming memoir, The Chronology of Water, and everything that goes into getting a new book onto the shelf at your bookstore. In the story we alluded to a brewing cover controversy with the book. That story was cute. The one written[…]
A lot of things have to happen over a significant period of time before you can discover the latest gem at your local bookstore. The average book takes years to write and months to edit, then there’s the design, printing, cataloging, distribution and promotion–just to name a handful of things.
