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 …
At the Wordstock Book Festival in Portland a couple weeks ago, I was manning the table for my press, Propeller Books, when a man paused to study the covers of the books there. I began the press in 2010 as an extension of the web magazine Propeller, and Propeller Books has released one title each …
“We’re so excited about Portland’s fledgling Propeller Press! Their first book, a collection of short stories by Mary Rechner, was published last year to much acclaim, and now they’ve published a first (for the author as well as the press) novel. Writer Evan P. Schneider’s new book is A Simple Machine, Like the Lever and is a …
A Simple Machine, Like the Lever is the debut novel from Evan P. Schneider and the second book published by Portland’s Propeller Books. It’s a book you could read in one long sitting, preferably on a Sunday, preferably leaving enough time afterward to take a bike ride alone with your thoughts. After bicycle commuting with …
Oregon Public Broadcasting has a great interview with Portland author and publisher Dan DeWeese on its website. On camera DeWeese talks about how it was easier than he’d thought it would be to break into the publishing industry. DeWeese’s Propeller Books published its debut novel, Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women by Mary Rechner, last fall. …
Dan DeWeese’s debut novel, You Don’t Love This Man, is both a mystery and a tender portrait of a flawed but likable man. Over the course of one day, Paul’s bank gets robbed by the same man who robbed it twenty-five years earlier, and he must find his daughter, who’s getting married to his good …
Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women is Portland author Mary Rechner’s debut short story collection and also the debut from its publisher, Propeller Books. The book is lovely to behold, well-designed and smart, with French flaps and thick pages with soft ragged edges known in publishing as the deckle. Maybe that seems trivial, but it’s …
