After working at St. Helens Book Shop for several years, Lori Cardiff took over for long-time owner Luanne Kreutzer two-and-a-half years ago. (St. Helens, Oregon, is about thirty miles north of Portland.) Cardiff runs the store with a unique perspective, having served as a teacher, a nonprofit fund-raiser, a member of the St. Helens Public Library …
Broadway Books is a timeless Portland gem. It's revered by longtime customers, new customers and fellow booksellers alike for staying vibrant and relevant during a tumultuous time in the book industry. The Book Broads, as the co-owners call themselves on Twitter, are making moves that incorporate the wisdom of their bookselling experience with new technologies …
We were intrigued when we found out that Indigo Editing Senior Editor (and NWBL contributor!) Kristin Thiel has a story in the new collection Men Undressed: Women Writers and the Male Sexual Experience. The anthology’s editors asked women to explore sexuality from a male point of view—to engage in “fictional cross-dressing” that, as the press materials for the …
Néna Rawdah’s heritage is Lebanese and she is originally from Texas, but what you hear when she speaks is all books. She’s worked in the Portland book scene for years, and then she and a business partner started St. Johns Booksellers, named after its North Portland neighborhood, in June 2005. Rawdah’s been standing strong the past …
