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Jun

12

2018

Chuck Palahniuk

Shelf Awareness Interviews Chuck Palahniuk:
Literary Goals and Skinny Jeans

From Shelf Awareness for Readers May 15, 2018; Chuck Palahniuk: ‘A Creature of Infinite Light & Love’ Chuck Palahniuk is the author of more than 17 fictional works, including Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Rant and[…] Make Something Up. He lives in the Pacific Northwest. We talked with him recently about Adjustment Day (Norton, $26.95), his first novel in four years.What did you learn …

May

22

2018

Ellen Notbohm. Photo credit: Andie Petkus Photography

Ellen Notbohm’s Historical, Heart-touching “The River by Starlight”

Author Ashley Sweeney interviewed Portland author Ellen Notbohm about her debut novel The River by Starlight. Shortly before publication, the book won the Gold Medal for Best Regional Fiction, West-Mountain, in the Independent Publisher Book Awards. Notbohm is also author of four award-winning nonfiction books. Ashley Sweeney: Thank you, Ellen, for allowing me to interview you …

Apr

11

2018

Red Clocks

Red Clocks by Leni Zumas

In Zumas’s all-too-familiar dystopia set in a small Oregon coastal town, Roe v. Wade has been overturned. The narrative explores the complexity of childbearing — both the desire for and not for — and the reduction of a woman’s identity to such choices, braiding together the perspectives of a pregnant teen, a single teacher who …

Apr

10

2018

Smoke City

Smoke and Wonders: Latest from Portlanders
Keith Rosson and Matthew Dickman

A surreal journey across the ages, a mind-bending road trip. In his September 2017 essay, “Study the Executioner,” for NWBookLovers.org, Portland author and artist Keith Rosson talked of how history, as a subject of interest, was largely lost on his youthful version. “Droll. Too large in its scope and breadth to really grasp.” But something changed …

Apr

5

2018

Another Read Through logo

Another Read Through, PNW Authors’ Books on “Portland Today”

Elisa Saphier of Another Read Through  in Portland recommended children’s books on KGW8’s “Portland Today” in their “Celebrating Children’s Book Day” segment. Here’s the list: Not Your Typical Dragon, Tenzin’s Deer, Women in Science, Cam Jansen series, Zoey and Sassafras series (WA author and press!), Clockbreakers (OR author!). We love this empowering selection. Watch the …

Apr

3

2018

Dan DeWeese

Portland Author Offers Up-to-date Tale of Alienation

from The Register-Guard I was only a few pages into Dan DeWeese’s Gielgud and already was sufficiently inspired to find a piece of paper and write this down: “DeWeese has an aptitude for mundane but essential internal trails of thought as well as dialogue exchanges that are perfectly balanced between clever and awkward and remarkably …

Mar

16

2018

Oregon Publisher Accepts Challenge
to Sell Only Books by Women in 2018

By Special to The Oregonian Posted Jan 30 By Jenn Director Knudsen | For The Oregonian/OregonLive The Willamette Valley town of Independence is home to a small book-publishing company whose mindset reflects its town’s name. Not a Pipe Publishing, founded in 2013 and co-owned by spouses Benjamin and Paige Gorman, appears to be the sole U.S. publisher that …

Mar

12

2018

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Karen Karbo and "In Praise of Difficult Women" book cover

In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons from 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules by Karen Karbo

I LOVE this book! Karen Karbo is at her feisty best as she relates the “difficult” natures of her subjects. (The author of Eloise? Who knew?) –Cheryl McKeon, former bookseller at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, WA; currently the manager of Book Passage Ferry Building in San Francisco, CA Seattle area folks: Learn …

Feb

27

2018

Brian Doyle

2018 Indie Spirit Honor Winner: Brian Doyle

The Pacific Northwest Book Award Committee recognized late author Brian Doyle with an Indie Spirit Honor for his body of work and vigorous support of independent booksellers in the Northwest and beyond. Doyle passed away in May 2017. We republish this essay that he wrote upon winning a 2016 PNBA Award in memory of his …

Feb

9

2018

Arab's Ox

Passage to Morocco: Tony Ardizzone and Walter Wetherell Discuss “The Arab’s Ox”

Tony Ardizzone was interviewed by Walter Wetherell in celebration of the 25th anniversary edition of Tony’s collection of stories, The Arab’s Ox: Stories of Morocco (originally published as “Larabi’s Ox”), on sale February 2018. The book was awarded the Chicago Foundation for Literature Award for Fiction, a Pushcart Prize, a fellowship from the National Endowment for …

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