From Miriam Gershow, the author of Closer: This week saw the culmination of a year’s work on the 100 Notable Small Press Books project I started last winter. Forty remarkable reviewers spent 2025 reading small press books, and Lit Hub published the final list on Monday. Click on the image to read the list. Sign up to …
From LitHub: Miriam Gershow Recommends Zoe Heller, Emily St. James, Jim Shepherd and More I am a writer living comfortably in middle age, embracing every gray hair, shopping the Eileen Fisher racks with glee, and yet I’m obsessed with high school. My new novel, Closer, takes place in and around a public high school in fictional Horace, …
Literary Arts announced the finalists for the 2025 Oregon Book Awards. Congratulations! The winners of each category will be announced live at the 2025 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony, hosted by Omar El Akkad, at Portland Center Stage at The Armory on Monday, April 28, 2025. Tickets are available here. SPECIAL AWARDS In addition to recognizing …
In these days of Wikileaks, oversharing on Facebook, and one-click answers from Google, library research has been relegated to the purview of yesteryear historians and diehard scholars, and the arrival of a cache of new information is often met with skepticism, or simply a big yawn. So it was somewhat surprising recently to find myself …
A skeptic by nature, I’ve always been suspect when it comes to trends in publishing. “Vampires,” I picture the big publisher saying from behind his big oak desk as he strokes his big waxy mustache. “Deliver me a vampire book. With romance. And a historical mash-up.” The author, lounging in a buttery leather chair, laughs …
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 …
Australian bookseller Jon Page is a big fan of Eugene novelist Miriam Gershow’s debut, The Local News (Spiegel & Grau, 2009). The book releases in Australia on Monday, and Page raves about it in this video for his store, Pages and Pages. With that accent, we could listen to him rapture over Roget’s Thesaurus, but it’s …
Miriam Gershow can do bittersweet like nobody’s business. She cracks us up and breaks our hearts, sometimes in the same paragraph. Her debut novel, The Local News (now in paperback), was a finalist for the 2009 Oregon Book Awards and reminds us of Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. In a favorable New York Times Review …
