Who in their right mind, in 2014, would publish a novel that touches upon the American War in Vietnam? And what sort of nutter would write, let alone try to publish, a novel that involves one of the protagonists being accused of sexual misconduct? I was raised partly by a Vietnam veteran stepdad whose anger …
Congrats to the winners of our re-launch giveaways. Village Books denizen Al Clay won the stack of 14 World Book Night paperbacks. Kristen Becker, of Portland, won five titles from Hawthorne Books. Christi Crutchfield, of Portland, won Calyx Books’ package: an Ursula K. Le Guin broadside; a three-issue subscription to CALYX Journal and a copy of …
To help us kick off the new site, some of our favorite publishers are offering giveaways—and there’s such good stuff here! Click on the CALYX ad and they’ll enter you to win a prize package that includes an Ursula K. Le Guin broadside, a three-issue subscription to CALYX Journal and a copy of their creative …
In the Beginning: I sell my first piece of writing when I am in the second grade. It is a screenplay for the TV series Star Trek. Proof of my precociousness is written across the title page in my father’s neat, bold uppercase hand: “PURCHASED FROM THE AUTHOR: 25¢.” To this day, it is one …
Nope, not a Joe Namath or Nathan Lane reference. This one is from the Bookbroads at Portland’s Broadway Books, who have just released the store’s top ten of 2010 in a couple of major categories. Of course, there’s that Girl who got the Dragon Tattoo, Played with Fire AND Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
“Brian Doyle loves words; big words, small words, fancy words, plain words, exotic words, domesticated words, adjectives, verbs and nouns especially, and because he loves words he piles them up in great juicy heaps of phrases and paragraphs and sentences and pages and whole books and makes delicious stories with them, stories about impossibly possible …
