In January of 2025, about a month before One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This was set to be published in North America, I received an email from my editor. He said he was worried: we’d gotten no confirmed major media at that point. By this he meant national radio, morning TV, that …
From the writer of some of the best recent TV shows (“The Good Place,” “Parks & Rec”), comes Loved One, a debut novel just as smart, perceptive, funny, tender, and quixotic as Aisha Muharrar’s scripts. In another writer’s hands, the story of two former girlfriends of a dead rock star trying to get along could …
Like most writers and cartoonists I spend an excessive amount of time in my head. I’m sensitive and self-critical. I love people, but people also make me anxious. In conversation I have to choose my words very carefully, and therefore, I rarely feel like I have anything clever to say in the moment. My voice …
Maybe I was meant to live and write in Portland, Oregon. But first I had to get London out of my system. In 2014, I retired from the University of Hawaii and moved to London. I’ve lived in the city before, short-term, but this time, I settle in for two years. My agenda: to reinvent …
Pattee takes us inside the mind of soon-to-be mother Annie in her attempt to reunite with her husband after a huge earthquake. Tilt poses imperative questions about our nature as individuals and collectively in the face of societal collapse. —Aubrey Winkler, Powell’s Books, Portland, OR Pick up new paperbacks at Powell’s Books and other independent …
Gratz takes the reader right into the duality of Berlin during the 1936 Olympics — a city being purged of any ‘undesirable’ citizens to put on a good show for the world. Gratz does not shy away from the comparison between 1936 Germany and 2025 America. This is a timely book that every middle-grade reader, …
Booklovers from all over joined Beach Books in Seaside, OR to celebrate their 20th Anniversary November 1, 2025. “It was so much better than we even hoped. Music was great, the food and drinks were terrific, and the lines at the checkout were long. We had a grand time.” —Karen Emmerling, owner of Beach Books, …
Just look at the book joy from Broadway Books in Portland, OR! The staff put together holiday picks. If you need some inspiration, start here! Kim’s picks Mary’s picks Megan’s picks April’s picks Carrie’s picks Elie’s picks Elisa’s picks Lin’s picks Steph’s picks
Reading this novel feels like you’ve unearthed a gem from the very soil in which the narrative is set. Deeply immersive in both current-day anthropological academia and before-current-era druid life, Bog Queen will pull you in and keep you there until all of the glistening threads tie together in conclusion. A beautiful story! –Alexis, The …
Treat yourself to this interview with Annie Bloom’s Will and Ruby. It’s less than 18 minutes long, and it’s professionally produced by Oregon artist Leif Olsen, who also composed the music, as part of theliferecording.com. Olsen records the life stories of parents, grandparents, widows, and widowers—then sets them to original music—because no one’s story should …
