“There hasn’t been an edgy book, like American Psycho, for decades. People don’t want to be associated with something politically incorrect because the backlash is so immediate online. They play safer because of that.” —Chuck Palahniuk This set of a dozen selfie statements from theguardian.com is probably the best encapsulation of the man and the …
EXULT, each patriot heart!—this night is shewn A piece, which we may fairly call our own. Fun fact for you this Independence Day: the first play written and performed in America was a comedy called “The Contrast” by Royall Tyler in 1787. The epigraph up there is from the play’s prologue; if you really want …
You know a book is something else when it requires an engineer. Bend publisher and author Don Compton and Bend illustrator and designer Dave Ember teamed up with award-winning paper engineer Bruce Foster to create America’s National Parks: A Pop-Up Book. The book is currently featured on the cover of the Holiday Books catalog, a …
In his National Book Award finalist selection and 2007 Pacific Northwest Book Award-winning book, The Zero, Seattle author Jess Walter crafted a tale that rose to the top of a loosely united genre of post-9/11 inspired novels. In The Financial Lives of the Poets, Walter has entered the realm of what we might cleverly call “recession fiction.”
