Beloved bestselling author Tom Robbins died this week at the age of 92 at his home in La Conner, WA. Robbins was an influence and friend to many in the Pacific Northwest literary world. The fact that his backlist has remained so available is testament to his talent and popularity. Here is just a sampling …
An excerpt from “Three sisters face shadows of disrupted lives in Portland author’s debut novel” by Amy Wang for the Oregonian/ OregonLive Leave it to a family therapist to write a novel about adult sisters each working their own way through a shared childhood trauma. Dian Greenwood’s debut novel, About the Carleton Sisters, features three …
From Amy Wang of The Oregonian/OregonLive, June 3, 2022: For Nanea Woods, books and community have always gone together, and now she’s launching her biggest effort yet to combine the two. Portland’s first Black literary festival, the Freadom Festival, is a tribute to freedom and reading that’s taking place in Portland’s Peninsula Park on Saturday, June …
by Amy Wang The Oregonian/OregonLive, February 04, 2022 It takes just a few minutes to read a picture book — but it can take years, from original idea to final publication, to bring one into the world. So when the pandemic shut down bookstore readings, library storytimes and school visits, the authors whose picture books …
From Jim Ryan and Jamie Hale for The Oregonian/OregonLive 10/28/21: A new film adaptation of classic science fiction novel Dune has opened in U.S. theaters, bringing audiences back to the desert planet Arrakis, home of sand worms, spice, politics and war. While set on an alien world, Dune was inspired by a very real place: …
By Amy Wang for The Oregonian/ Oregonlive.com September 18, 2021: “It’s happening! It’s really happening!” That was Portland author and musician Colin Meloy‘s delighted tweet on Wednesday. “I’m super excited to see what these guys do with Wildwood,” Meloy added. That would be “Wildwood” as in the 2011 children’s fantasy novel set in Portland’s Forest Park that put …
from OregonLive.com by Amy Wang Here in Oregon, we have plenty of independent bookstores to celebrate. In our nod to Independent Bookstore Day this year, we’re highlighting bookstores in the Portland suburbs. We visited bookstores in Clackamas, Multnomah, Washington and Yamhill counties that are currently open to the public, though in some cases with limited …
From the Bookmarks e-newsletter from The Oregonian/ OregonLive April 17, 2021: Earth Day is Thursday, providing an ideal opportunity to read Plastic: An Autobiography by Allison Cobb. The Portland-based author grew up in Los Alamos. She works for an environmental advocacy organization. And she’s a poet — her collection After We All Died was a 2018 Oregon Book …
by Amy Wang | The Oregonian/OregonLive In times of upheaval, readers naturally turn to books to make sense of what’s happening. With protesters now marching through Portland regularly under the banner of the Black Lives Matter movement, we asked several local Black writers if they’d be willing to recommend books that address racial issues. Here …
By Amy Wang | The Oregonian/OregonLive: This Halloween season, trick or treat yourself with these titles, nearly all by authors with Oregon ties. The Oddmire, Book 1: Changeling (Algonquin Young Readers, 272 pages, $16.95) Having established major monster cred with the wry young-adult “Jackaby” trilogy, about a 19th-century New England detective who specializes in paranormal …
