by Amy Wang | The Oregonian/OregonLive In times of upheaval, readers naturally turn to books to make sense of what’s happening. With protesters now marching through Portland regularly under the banner of the Black Lives Matter movement, we asked several local Black writers if they’d be willing to recommend books that address racial issues. Here …
By Amy Wang | The Oregonian/OregonLive: This Halloween season, trick or treat yourself with these titles, nearly all by authors with Oregon ties. The Oddmire, Book 1: Changeling (Algonquin Young Readers, 272 pages, $16.95) Having established major monster cred with the wry young-adult “Jackaby” trilogy, about a 19th-century New England detective who specializes in paranormal …
By Special to The Oregonian Posted Jan 30 By Jenn Director Knudsen | For The Oregonian/OregonLive The Willamette Valley town of Independence is home to a small book-publishing company whose mindset reflects its town’s name. Not a Pipe Publishing, founded in 2013 and co-owned by spouses Benjamin and Paige Gorman, appears to be the sole U.S. publisher that …
Bookseller at Annie Bloom’s… author… male model? Jeff Shaffer (also the author of the Shelf Talker column for this blog) and his new book, Who Am I Today?, are featured in an article by Anna Marum for The Oregonian. Congratulations, Jeff! We know you won’t forget the little people– or all the readers.
“Beverly Cleary recently turned 96, and she may have taken a well-deserved step away from the writing desk. The children she has invented are permanent, indelible in the history of such writing. Yet it’s important for her fans, young and, um, older, to appreciate that such work does not come from the air. A writer’s …
Portland author Dana Haynes is getting some nice press for his latest thriller, Breaking Point, the sequel to Crashers, which Paulina Springs Books owner Brad Craft raved about here. Haynes spent twenty years as a reporter and editor buy levitra no prescription at newspapers in Oregon, was the communication director for Portland Community College until recently …
All the bad news for bookselling recently has led some journalists to seek out success stories in indie bookselling (like this one about Elliott Bay Book Company and this one about new models for bookselling, which includes a nod to Village Books). Following that trend, The Oregonian columnist Steve Duin has written a well-deserved toast to …
Winter may not always provide the prime conditions to set out for a long country drive, but enjoying a fine glass of wine during a holiday get-together (a Willamette Valley Vineyards selection was a big hit at a family gathering last weekend) can provide the perfect impetus to imagine that leisurely Northwest wine country tour …
“This book is based on a true story that Rock read in The Oregonian several years ago. It involved the brief tale of a homeless man and his daughter who lived in Forest Park, were discovered, then relocated to a farm to work and build a “better life” for themselves. Then they disappeared. Rock has …
Portland’s Heathman Hotel recently hired a part-time libarian to help manage its 4000-volume library, The Oregonian reported yesterday. The books in the Heathman collection are signed by authors who’ve stayed at the hotel, Stephen King, Bill Clinton and Annie Dillard among them. The librarian, Sophie Soprani, is a 20-year-old aspiring writer and an English major …
