Maybe it begins here—along the Suamico River in northeastern Wisconsin. Uncle Dale owned about 60 acres of low pastureland along the Suamico, and my grandfather farmed part of it, selling his produce out of the breezeway of his home, though he also sometimes sold his dill and asparagus directly to the local IGA. When I …
“What to do with all the tasty summer fruit? You need this cookbook by two awesome local chefs.”—Nena, St. Johns Booksellers, Portland. Buy Rustic Fruit Desserts from St. Johns Booksellers.
“Maureen McHugh wrote one of my favorite science fiction novels ever—China Mountain Zhang. This is something else. In Mothers & Other Monsters, McHugh offers unpredictable short stories. By turns funny and grim, she explores the relationships upon which her characters’ lives depend: between parents and children, brothers and sisters, boys and girls. We strongly recommend …
“Poppy Z. Brite made her name in the 1990’s writing tasty dark fantasy that inspired a generation of Goth kids. Now for something completely different! If I had to sum up Second Line in a few words, I would say Kitchen Confidential meets A Separate Peace. Gary and Rickey, young foodies from the Ninth Ward …
“My friends and customers know I love science fiction and fantasy. But even when SFF is set on Earth, it tends to take place in great big cities where I do not live. So imagine my joy when I realized that bridge in on the cover of Magic to the Bone was MY bridge, my …
Néna Rawdah’s heritage is Lebanese and she is originally from Texas, but what you hear when she speaks is all books. She’s worked in the Portland book scene for years, and then she and a business partner started St. Johns Booksellers, named after its North Portland neighborhood, in June 2005. Rawdah’s been standing strong the past …
“Neil Gaiman is, in my opinion, one of the best storytellers writing books today. My usual tendency is to avoid anything in the sci-fi/fantasy section, but Gaiman is such a talented writer that I read all his books. Imagine taking a plane and the guy sitting next to you turns out to be an elder god. …
In a major ruling for bookstores and libraries, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today struck down two Oregon statutes that criminalized the distribution of sex education and other non-obscene materials. The Media Coalition in New York issued a press statement at about 1:30 pm on Monday, September 20 that said in part: “The State …
