I met with Peter Brown Hoffmeister in his element, on an overcast summer Monday at the Columns, the basalt rock climbing area of Skinner Butte Park in Eugene, Oregon. You can find Hoffmeister there upwards of one hundred days a year, either with his family or the students he teaches in the Integrated Outdoor Program …
It’s Day 7 of 28 Authors, 28 Variations on a List, and we give you one of our hometown authors, Peter Brown Hoffmeister, who doesn’t mind being called The Subversive Peter Brown Hoffmeister. His favorite PNBA store is the UO Duck Store, where events coordinator Laura White “does an incredible job of bringing in great writers …
“I was happy to read Peter Hoffmeister’s memoir shortly after having read Townie: A Memoir by Andre Dubus III. Both men began as boys who were thoughtful, introverted and reluctant to fight, but, for both, conflicted emotions about their parents drove them to transform themselves physically and mentally for self-protection—and to inflict pain on others. …
Peter Brown Hoffmeister’s debut memoir, The End of Boys, is not an easy read. A boy shouldn’t cower from his family. He shouldn’t feel that every system exists to break him down. He shouldn’t be driven into darkness by a voice in his head. And just as sure, he shouldn’t have half a chance to …
Loneliness and cold, hard surfaces. There are a lot of each in Peter Brown Hoffmeister’s memoir, The End of Boys, due to hit shelves June 1. Locally shot in the author’s hometown of Eugene (the very scene of his chronicled youth), and featuring just him and his nephew as his younger self, this new book trailer …
Paper Fort has a great and often funny interview with Eugene author Peter Brown Hoffmeister about his writing process and the path to publication for his forthcoming memoir, The End of Boys, which comes out from Soft Skull this spring. He describes the genesis of the book, tantalizingly, as: “I had this real, true, dark story …
