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PNBA 2011 Shortlist

Dec

22

2011

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28 Authors, 28 Variations on a List: Day 22. Jonathan Evison

At a holiday caroling party the other night, we were all gathered around the piano in our Christmas sweaters belting out Christmas songs arranged for us in plastic binders when in walked a tall, dapper man, a friend of a friend of a friend, in what appeared to be a seersucker suit carrying a puppy. …

Dec

19

2011

28 Authors, 28 Variations on a List: Day 19. Diana Abu-Jaber

Our Day 19 author divides her time between teaching at Portland State University and writing in Miami. Though her new novel, Birds of Paradise, is based in Miami, everyone in the novel is dreaming about or trying to move to Portland. Birds of Paradise was included on year-end best lists this year in the Washington Post and …