Portland publisher Tin House won big last night when Morgan Talty’s Night of the Living Rez was awarded the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. What a joy to see photos of the NYC ceremony from Tin House publisher Craig Popelars this morning! Fiction-lovers and book club readers, take note– this …
Published on catapult.co September 13, 2021 As a part of our Money Week series, Laura Stanfill argues that you should work with your publisher to do what feels organic, genuine, and true to you as a human being. I’m running out of copies of Joanna Rose’s A Small Crowd of Strangers. My warehouse report says …
Despite my natural pessimism, this book broke down my defenses and set me up to root for a well-earned, conventional kind of happy ending. But then it took a turn and became an altogether different story, leaving me to sputter along with the characters, “Unfair—this is not what I was expecting.” I was crushed. And …
Oregon-based Forest Avenue Press‘s founder and publisher Laura Stanfill is featured in a documentary in the Wordsmiths series produced by Jonah Barrett, presented by Oly Arts. This is part of the Main Street Writers Movement, which aims to “strengthen the literary ecosystem, increase the volume of the literary publishing conversation, and earn more visbility for …
I’ve mostly avoided the coloring book fad, but The Bicycle Coloring Book: Journey to the End of the World still captures my attention every time I open it. It’s fascinating and bizarre, like a tome of bicycle-themed science fiction dreamscapes, and this is a coloring book worth diving into and exploring. –Cyn Marts, Microcosm Publishing, …
