Oregon Writers Colony has chosen the inaugural title for its new book club. It’s Disorder by Portland author Dan DeWeese. OWC director James Bernard Frost describes Disorder as a hidden treasure.”It’s not something you would find on your own,” he says. “You won’t see it on the front table of Barnes & Noble. It was written, …
James Bernard Frost woke up one morning in March and knew it was time for a change. The Portland author had been pulling sixty-hour weeks at the office for ten years, hunched over a keyboard, stacking thousands upon thousands of sentences. “You know, you get your MFA in Creative Writing, then you have to intern …
“When we got our advanced reading copy of A Very Minor Prophet at Howl’s Bookstore in Portland, Oregon, we were immediately struck by its marketing appeal to local hipsters. For one thing, the cover has a bird on it,” says bookseller Marshall Daniels, “and the inside flap mentions PBR. We didn’t even need to read …
