From Shelf Awareness for Readers November 15, 2019: Welcome to the small town of Odsburg, Wash., where mountain lions live in basements, a “strange skinless guy” hangs out in the town square, and a couple is so hungry they eat themselves, literally, out of house and home. Odsburg by Matt Tompkins (Souvenirs: And Other Stories), is narrated …
Several Portland bookstores booked events this summer featuring some unusual contributors—high school students. The kids are staffers of Roosevelt High School’s Unique Ink Publishing, a student-led writing and publishing center that operates under the guidance of PSU’s Master’s Program in Publishing, more commonly known by its publishing imprint, Ooligan Press, and they’re currently leading a mini-tour for …
Maybe it begins here—along the Suamico River in northeastern Wisconsin. Uncle Dale owned about 60 acres of low pastureland along the Suamico, and my grandfather farmed part of it, selling his produce out of the breezeway of his home, though he also sometimes sold his dill and asparagus directly to the local IGA. When I …
We learned recently that Portland State University’s innovative student-run publishing house, Ooligan Press, is being threatened because of state budget cuts. Ooligan director Dennis Stovall is retiring in December, and there might not be money to hire additional faculty. “With the proposed budget cuts, our program will be cut completely, meaning that instead of students learning …
Last week, we learned through Reading Local: Portland that Ooligan Press coordinator Dennis Stovall has been accepted into the Fulbright Specialist Program, which places innovative educators for visits at schools around the world. Stovall, formerly the publisher at Blue Heron Publishing, started the masters degree program in publishing at Portland State University ten years ago. …
It doesn’t get much more Oregon than Matt Love reviewing the new sesquicentennial-celebrating compilation by Portland State University’s Ooligan Press. Yes, sixteen of the contributors are Love’s students at Newport High. And, yes, he is one proud Papa. But this really is a book we Oregonians should get behind, full of grit and fun, like a …
