One of the many wonderful things about winning this award is being officially reminded that I now belong to the Pacific Northwest. It has been five years since we moved to Portland, my wife’s hometown, and my extended family spent the first several years worrying that I wouldn’t be happy here. I grew up in …
Monica Wesolowska has had her fiction and nonfiction published in numerous venues, including Best New American Voices 2000, Literary Mama and the New York Times bestseller, My Little Red Book. She is a graduate of Portland’s Reed College and has taught at her hometown University, California Berkely, since 2002. She went back to school for this interview, answering …
Just moments after posting yesterday’s Face Out for Roger Hobbs’ debut heist thriller Ghostman we stumbled upon this same-day interview with the young Portland author—and we mean young—at The Wall Street Journal‘s Speakeasy blog. They rang Hobbs up to find out just how the 24-year-old pulled off such a major league job with his first …
