Check out Health Beat Radio’s “Sparkle: The Teresa Bergen Creativity Hour,” where Teresa will be interviewing creative types about their inspiration, process, and the place of creativity in overall health. Sparkle airs on Saturdays at 3PM EST/noon PST. This Saturday’s guest is Willa Schneberg.

Saving Stanley is a terrific collection of eight interrelated stories about Daniel Brickman and his family. The stories move back and forth in time and focus on different family members…

I’m talking about the kind of breathless that happens when someone is beating the shit out of you. That pressure in your chest when your trying like hell to inhale. I’m talking about the kind of breathless that feels like you are being held under water, your arms flailing until you realize you’re holding yourself down there.

Julia Holmes’s first novel, Meeks, is just out from Small Beer Press and has been getting plenty of attention.  Publishers Weekly calls it “a highly imaginative debut,” and The L.A. Times says, “with humor and heartbreak, Holmes’ novel unfolds like a game in which the deck is irredeemably stacked.” Holmes’s eligible bachelors are mayflies:  they [...]

Reading Frenzy is unlike any other place in Portland.  The events, the blog, the items on the shelves, all exude an integral link with Portland’s creative community.  This is due in large part to Chloe Eudaly, the shops faithful proprietress, and her passion for supporting and promoting independent publishers and artists.  To help prove the [...]

Mayor Adams delivered a proclamation this morning from the City Hall’s Council Chamber in recognition of next weekend’s 10th Annual Portland Zine Symposium, and the importance of zines and the DIY community.  I had never actually been inside City Hall, so I figured this would be as good a time as any, and decided to [...]

It takes nerves to pitch your idea to a panel of four literary agents and dozens of audience members. But that’s what hopeful writers did at the start of the 41st annual Willamette Writers Conference last Thursday night. Most of these brave souls left with some advice, a few came close to tears, and one [...]