Several Portland bookstores booked events this summer featuring some unusual contributors—high school students. The kids are staffers of Roosevelt High School’s Unique Ink Publishing, a student-led writing and publishing center that operates under the guidance of PSU’s Master’s Program in Publishing, more commonly known by its publishing imprint, Ooligan Press, and they’re currently leading a mini-tour for …
“Wouldn’t it be cool if you were just walking down NE Broadway and out of nowhere someone began dancing, I mean really dancing, when you least expected it? Wouldn’t that make you smile? You probably wouldn’t be able to help yourself. Even if you’d been feeling a little dour or grumpy (not that that ever happens to me), …
We at nwbooklovers.org are excited to announce a live show by our very own Shelf Talker columnist, Jeffrey Shaffer! His one-man show, “Night of the Living Humorist,” will be at O’Connor’s Annex next door to Annie Bloom’s in Multnomah Village in Portland on Wednesday, June 5 from 7:00- 8:30. Shaffer is the author of I’m Right …
The Bad Easter Bunny by Isabel Atherton, illustrated by Stephanie Rohr. “The Easter Bunny doesn’t feel appreciated for all his efforts. This literally makes him blue. But his sadness soon turns to anger and he causes lots of havoc in the neighborhood. When a little girl expresses her gratitude, things change for the better. Fun illustrations …
“Julie Richardson, co-author with Cory Schreiber of the fabulous Rustic Fruit Desserts, has written another winner with her newest cookbook, Vintage Cakes: Timeless Recipes for Cupcakes, Flips, Rolls, Layer, Angel, Bundt,Chiffon, and Icebox Cakes for Today’s Sweet Tooth (Ten Speed Press, $24). Julie spends most of her days baking cakes and other goodies for Baker …
“Happily, this is not a book about whether money can buy happiness. It is, however, a challenging analysis of whether a democracy that values justice and fairness should challenge the ‘market triumphalism’ of the past few decades. Should the bottom line always be the bottom line? From slavery, to prisons, to war, to life insurance, …
We have to pass on this essay from Brian Doyle commemorating Broadway Books’ 20th anniversary. It was made into a broadside by Letterary Press, and it’s pretty wonderful, a tribute to all indie bookstores, really. Broadway Books’ co-owner Sally McPherson tells us the store’s celebration Sunday was fabulous—that they were “mobbed all day long—sort of …
Broadway Books is having a party this Sunday, May 6 to celebrate its 20th birthday. Co-owners Sally McPherson and Roberta Dyer have a lively celebration planned, for the day and for the next year, to thank their customers for “helping us to ride the waves that have carried us up and down over the years.” …
“Lucia Perillo has aready won (& broken) hearts through her poetry, but now she takes it up a notch, blossoming into a flawless collection of incredible short stories. This collection is raw, yet so polished . . . Not since Donald Ray Pollock’s Knockemstiff has a gathering of stories packed themselves into one powerful punch.”—Donna, Powell’s …
“One beautiful spring day in London, Charlotte, an elderly retired English teacher, is mugged and breaks her hip. This event ricochets off the lives of seven other characters in her orbit, unsettling and rearranging them. While Charlotte convalesces with her likable daughter Rose, and her son-in-law Gerry, she takes measure of her infirmity. She imagines herself …
