Monica Drake’s second novel, The Stud Book, is like “Friends” for the punk rock crowd, a stripped down, no-holds-barred story of 30-somethings in the various places that 30-somethings find themselves—with kids and terrified, desperately trying to have kids, or desperately against having kids. Her first book, Clown Girl, was optioned by Kristen Wiig. Monica lives …
As a bookseller who is also a mostly unpublished writer, I crave contact with other serious writers. One of my main tasks at Paulina Springs Books is booking our author events, which means I get to meet or have contact with all the authors who come through here. You would think this would be the …
“Among other things, Nathaniel Philbrick wrote In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, which was a National Book Award winner and covered an event that was an inspiration and backdrop of Herman Melville’s classic Moby-Dick. I’ve never read Moby-Dick, and it is unlikely I would read as much into the …
Movie buffs are likely to enjoy this story in The New York Times about the unlikely journey of a golf book trying to find its way to the big screen. The film, of the same name, is based on the 1972 novel Golf in the Kingdom, a book considered sacred by many golfers and apparently …
In high school Sylla McClellan wanted to work at A Clean Well-Lighted Place in Larkspur, CA. She never got the chance, and the store is now closed. But McClellan has both sought and built her own well-lit places for books. After college in 1995, she worked at both Powell’s and Borders in Portland. She bought Third Street Books …
After managing a food coop for 25 years, Brad Smith moved to the small central Oregon tourist town of Sisters and bought its indie bookstore, Paulina Springs Books. “I wanted to enter into a new business industry, but I knew it would have to be something I could feel a palpable connection to the broader community,” …
“Wow!! Power in its RAW form – breathtaking, terrifying, and unstoppable. Freak or rogue waves are being studied by many different branches of scientists because of the far-reaching consequences they have on human and ocean life. I quote from the book: ‘We know more about the surface of the moon than we do about the …
“This book is awesome because it has farming, tap dancing, fence-post pounding, aspen groves, dog reincarnation, treehouse living, and dancing the tango (not at the same time) all in one story. It’s told in alternating viewpoints, with the characters’ stories interweaving and diverging. Jade, a red-haired massage therapist, has reached enlightenment and has just come …
