Hoffmeister writes a gritty southern gothic novel; even though it takes place in the small town of Pierce, Idaho, the goings-on there would fit snugly in the south. This is technically a young adult book, but so dark it seems a much better fit to tag it as adult literature. Hoffmeister’s characters, cousins Little and …
NW indie booksellers have been on the Peter Hoffmeister bandwagon for years. He’s been a featured guest at their industry tradeshow and NWBL has reviewed and interviewed him numerous times. He’s published a memoir. He’s published an outdoor guide. He’s published an adult novel.
This is an unusual Face Out, in that it comes from the blog of the author’s literary agent. Sure, she has a stake in celebrating the book’s release, but the story she tells has no bias. It is what it is—which just happens to be a ringing endorsement for the very existence of the book. …
Dorianne Laux’s “Family Stories” from her 2000 collection Smoke is this week’s American Life in Poetry featured poem. Laux traded her University of Oregon duck pond for the North Carolina State University wolfpack in 2008, but is currently back in Oregon as part of her MFA teaching gig at Pacific University. She’s the author of five …
“I was happy to read Peter Hoffmeister’s memoir shortly after having read Townie: A Memoir by Andre Dubus III. Both men began as boys who were thoughtful, introverted and reluctant to fight, but, for both, conflicted emotions about their parents drove them to transform themselves physically and mentally for self-protection—and to inflict pain on others. …
Peter Brown Hoffmeister’s debut memoir, The End of Boys, is not an easy read. A boy shouldn’t cower from his family. He shouldn’t feel that every system exists to break him down. He shouldn’t be driven into darkness by a voice in his head. And just as sure, he shouldn’t have half a chance to …
Loneliness and cold, hard surfaces. There are a lot of each in Peter Brown Hoffmeister’s memoir, The End of Boys, due to hit shelves June 1. Locally shot in the author’s hometown of Eugene (the very scene of his chronicled youth), and featuring just him and his nephew as his younger self, this new book trailer …
Paper Fort has a great and often funny interview with Eugene author Peter Brown Hoffmeister about his writing process and the path to publication for his forthcoming memoir, The End of Boys, which comes out from Soft Skull this spring. He describes the genesis of the book, tantalizingly, as: “I had this real, true, dark story …
