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Northline

Feb

4

2014

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Going to the Well with Willy Vlautin

Willy Vlautin is an author and songwriter from Scappoose, Oregon, just up Hwy 30 from the St. John’s Bridge. He’s revered enough to have been recruited to read the works of William Stafford and Ken Kesey in documentaries of their lives and work recently aired on Oregon Public Broadcasting. Still, there are a lot of …

Mar

1

2012

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He's Big in Europe

Willy Vlautin has a lot of fans here in the Northwest, and the upcoming release of the film version of his 2006 novel The Motel Life might just mean a lot more for the Scappoose, Oregon writer/musician/everyman, who took home two Oregon Book Awards last year for Lean on Pete. Europeans are long onto Vlautin. …

Mar

4

2010

Love for Willy Vlautin

  One of our favorite unsung Northwest authors was honored in a big way this week in the UK’s The Guardian. Famous authors were asked to select their favorite book from the last ten years. George Pelacanos chose Northline by Scappoose, Oregon author Willy Vlautin.  Michael Gruber has described Vlautin as the “secret love child …

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