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 …
Literary Arts announced the winners of the 2013 Oregon Book Awards this week. There must be something in the water: all the winners of the 26th annual awards live and write in Portland. Congratulations to all the winners! ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW AWARD FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE Allen Say of Portland Drawing From Memory (Scholastic Press) LESLIE …
Earlier this week the winners of the 2012 Oregon Book Awards were announced at Portland’s Gerding Theater at the annual ceremony hosted by award sponsor Literary Arts. This year’s special presenter was Pulitzer prize and National Book Award winner Timothy Egan. Three of this year’s winners were prominently featured on NW Book Lovers in the past …
I ended up working in a hospital by accident. I attended not one minute of college. I had all kinds of jobs, several in warehouses or factories, but at a certain point I’d been unemployed for a while and decided to take the Civil Service Test, see where that might lead. I was offered a …
Last week’s shooting tragedy in Tucson tamed much of the political rhetoric in this country—temporarily. As individuals and groups get back to business as usual, Oregon author John Daniel pleads that it’s time to give more consideration to the methods of our messages.
Another Way the River Has collects the finest nonfiction writings of Robin Cody, a native speaker who probes the streams and woods and salmon that run to the heart of what it means to live and love, to work and play, in the Pacific Northwest. His characters—from loggers to fishers to cowboys to the kids …
