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University of Oregon

Feb

28

2020

Jason Brown

Work to Be Done

As I await the publication of my third book of short stories about Maine and northern New England, A Faithful But Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed, I remember applying for a job in my twenties that I suspected (correctly, it turned out) would pay me for taking naps. The position involved running a …

Jan

23

2015

1

remark

William Ritter, author of Jackaby

Inspiration

I’ve gotten a lot of questions about inspiration since publishing Jackaby. What inspired me to write about X, Y, or Z; what do I do when I don’t feel inspired; where does inspiration come from? Inspiration is weird. Here’s my best advice on the subject. Inspiration is a marvelous thing. There are times when whole …

Jun

20

2012

Laux’s American Life in Poetry

Dorianne Laux’s “Family Stories” from her 2000 collection Smoke is this week’s American Life in Poetry featured poem. Laux traded her University of Oregon duck pond for the North Carolina State University wolfpack in 2008, but is currently back in Oregon as part of her MFA teaching gig at Pacific University. She’s the author of five …

Jan

17

2012

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

“If you’re looking for a quirky character, meet Blue van Meer. She’s the adoring daughter of a brilliant college professor. She and her father traipse all over the United States, exploring, learning, reading and keeping to themselves. During Blue’s senior year of high school, they move to North Carolina, where Blue, for the first time …

Aug

23

2011

Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper by Diablo Cody

“Before Diablo Cody was super-famous for writing the movie Juno she was just like the rest of us post-college twenty-somethings . . . approaching our looming corporate futures feeling uncertain, slightly terrified and very bored. Her solution, however, is what makes Candy Girl unique: Cody tackles her ennui by becoming a stripper. Candy Girl is …

Aug

1

2011

Mandi Harris and the UO Duck Store's Air-Conditioned Sea of Tranquility

Mandi Harris is the self-proclaimed “fiction fashionista” at the University of Oregon Duck Store. She started there in the book department while she was an English major at the university—and has been slinging books for four years. “Being surrounded by books and working alongside people who love them has made me extremely spoiled,” she says. “Plus, …

Apr

16

2011

Tiger's Curse by Colleen Houck

“Tiger’s Curse is a wonderfully written page-turner by a Salem author. Set in Oregon, it features Kelsey, who is a typical 17-year-old foster child looking for summer work. She finds a job with a traveling circus and becomes intrigued with a white tiger, Ren. Little does she know what she has really gotten herself into. …

Feb

11

2011

Reading Kesey’s Papers by Cai Emmons

In these days of Wikileaks, oversharing on Facebook, and one-click answers from Google, library research has been relegated to the purview of yesteryear historians and diehard scholars, and the arrival of a cache of new information is often met with skepticism, or simply a big yawn. So it was somewhat surprising recently to find myself …

Jan

11

2011

Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, a Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese by Brad Kessler

“My only goal in life is to move to the country, raise goats, and make cheese. So far, I am not succeeding. However, Brad Kessler made my dream a reality in Goat Song, which documents his introduction to the pastoral life. Not only is his prose to die for, but his exploration of etymology, history, …

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