Portland, OR! Get ready for the Portland Book Festival with the event running from November 2- 8, 2026. The main day will be Saturday, November 7. From bookstore festival partner Broadway Books in Portland: [W]e have expanded our partnership with Literary Arts at the Portland Book Festival (November 7th) and you’ll find us at our …
Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, U.S. Representative for Oregon’s Third Congressional District, featured Portland’s Broadway Books in her Small Business Spotlight.
An excerpt from Forest Avenue Press publisher and author Laura Stanfill’s August 30, 2026 substack: […] The Sea-Glass Shore by Julie Salmon Kelleher[,] Forest Avenue’s Sept. 1 release[,] is a selkie story that is not about entrapment and escape like the original seal-person myth. It’s a novel about what it takes to stay—in a marriage, in …
Oregon Public Broadcasting talked to some of the 81 (!!!) bookstores participating in Portland Book Week. Hear from booksellers at the White Rabbit Book Cafe in Oregon City, Maggie Mae’s Bookshop in Gresham and Lost & Bound Books, a mobile bookshop based in Portland. There’s still time to plan your route. Here’s the official Portland …
Bonnie and Bob Olds were May’s featured customers of the month of Broadway Books (Portland, OR). You can can peruse their book picks on Bonnie and Bob’s book pages, or in the store on the shelf above staff recommendations. To preview past customers of the month please go to Broadway Books’ website. Q & A with Bonnie and Bob …
Milo has ten thousand chances to get it right – to earn his place in the cosmic soul. But Milo is already on life number 9,995, and if things keep going the way they have, instead of becoming one with everything, he may just slide off into nothingness. Still, there are plenty of laughs, heartbreak …
From Broadway Books in Portland, OR: Bill Holmes is our second featured customer of the month, another Broadway Books regular we look forward to seeing often on his near-weekly visits to the store. You can check out his book picks via this link or in the store on the shelf above staff recommendations. To preview other …
In January of 2025, about a month before One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This was set to be published in North America, I received an email from my editor. He said he was worried: we’d gotten no confirmed major media at that point. By this he meant national radio, morning TV, that …
From the writer of some of the best recent TV shows (“The Good Place,” “Parks & Rec”), comes Loved One, a debut novel just as smart, perceptive, funny, tender, and quixotic as Aisha Muharrar’s scripts. In another writer’s hands, the story of two former girlfriends of a dead rock star trying to get along could …
Like most writers and cartoonists I spend an excessive amount of time in my head. I’m sensitive and self-critical. I love people, but people also make me anxious. In conversation I have to choose my words very carefully, and therefore, I rarely feel like I have anything clever to say in the moment. My voice …
