From Forest Avenue Press publisher, Laura Stanfill: We’re nearing the end of Dispatches from Anarres panels and conversations. Thanks to all our amazing authors and editor Susan DeFreitas. I have learned so much from each event–and we have two more coming up! […]Friday, March 4, on OPB’s Think Out Loud, tune in to hear Susan, …
From Oregon Public Broadcasting July 14, 2018 This week on “State of Wonder,” some of the Northwest’s most prominent writers come together to share stories and memories of the man the “New Yorker” called “the Portland sage.” It’s hard to imagine a more quintessentially Northwest writer than Brian Doyle. He was not from Oregon, but he …
Yesterday, Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber stopped the execution of two-time killer Gary Haugen. Oregon journalist and author Naseem Rakha, who has visited with Haugen on death row, reacted to the announcement on her blog. “In Oregon we have only executed people who have volunteered to die by giving up their appeals,” Rakha writes. “Just like …
Next Wednesday (October 12), for the first time ever, the National Book Award finalists will be announced in the Northwest—live on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s morning radio program, Think Out Loud, and in front of a live audience at the new Literary Arts Center in Portland (Literary Arts is co-sponsor of the event). Past National Book Award winners …
Oregon Public Broadcasting has a great interview with Portland author and publisher Dan DeWeese on its website. On camera DeWeese talks about how it was easier than he’d thought it would be to break into the publishing industry. DeWeese’s Propeller Books published its debut novel, Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women by Mary Rechner, last fall. …
