We were just reading this blurb on Portland’s Reading Local about All the Pretty People: Tales of Carob Shame & Barbie-Envy (Microcosm Publishing), Portland author Ariel Gore’s new memoir about growing up hippie. It reminded us of another recent memoir by East Coaster Melissa Coleman. Hers, This Life Is In Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty …
In 2000, Jennifer Lauck’s memoir Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found became a bestseller after the author appeared on Oprah. Two more books followed, sans Oprah, and Lauck found herself with no agent, no publisher and trouble at home. A taste of Tibetan Buddhism gave her an idea for a project on “how really screwed up …
One of our favorite book bloggers from the Portland area, Amy Baskin, who writes mostly about children’s books at Euphoria: That Kick I Get From Kid Lit, visited with Northwest Booksellers at their annual convention last week to moderate a discussion about how bloggers and booksellers can work together. Baskin put together the whole thing, …
