Yes, you heard that right, folks: Tsunami Press, the publisher related to Eugene, OR’s Tsunami Books, is urging readers to buy their beautiful hardcover copies of Cronies by Ken Babbs so they can eventually print a paperback with a cover that gives the Kens their pants back. The book is available through independent bookstores everywhere …
Ken Kesey and fellow Merry Prankster Ken Babbs bring us a “real American Western” based upon events from the 1911 Pendleton Round Up, which he first heard around campfires as a child in eastern Oregon. Filled with real life colorful characters and great, snappy dialogue, the Kens craft a wonderful American Tall Tale, exaggerated and …
Three is… a crowd? Company? The magic number? Hell, it’s a lot of things and I’m going to add one more to the three ingredient pot: book recommendations. The NY Times can have their 100 and Buzzfeed can stick to 22 – my brain isn’t big enough to handle much more than three of anything …
Points North is a collection of stories completed by Howard Frank Mosher shortly before he passed away in January 2017 at the age of 74. While the Army Corp of Engineers, an itinerant preacher, local museum trustees, and the courts try to foil the fly-fishing, baseball playing, classics reading and wilderness loving residents of Kingdom …
Oregon Public Broadcasting has launched a new monthly online series called “Greetings From the Northwest.” It explores stories, adventures, and history about this remarkable place we call home. This month, the series showcases books. Stories connect to reading lists, author interviews, book tours and more. It’s a nice stew of literary Northwestiness—features on Ken Kesey, Ursula K. …
(Editor’s note: We first published this interview with Lidia Yuknavitch last March. We’re republishing it to celebrate her 2012 PNBA Award, which she’ll accept Tuesday, March 6 at 7 pm at Broadway Books in Portland.) If you love memoir or poetry or Ken Kesey or have ever spent time on the planet Sorrow, you’ll want …
Six Eugene artists and writers will read from Ken Kesey’s letters and original manuscripts December 2 as a fundraiser to help the University of Oregon’s library acquire the Kesey collection, which includes typewritten manuscripts, artwork, collages, photographs and correspondence, dating from 1960 – 2001. The UO has an opportunity to purchase the collection from the …
The Chicago Tribune posted a long series of interviews with various people involved in the making of episodes 12 an d 13 of the tv series Battlestar Galactica, which were aired in January. This is a portion of the interview with David Weddle on the making of Sometimes a Great Notion, which he co-wrote with …
