Reading Local: Portland

Just in cased you missed it here are some of this past weeks best posts from those covering Portland’s literary scene:

From Bookmarks:

-Rediscovers two lost Northwest books: Harry Glickman’s Promoter Ain’t A Dirty Word, and Halberstam’s The Breaks of the Game which is back in print
-Poetry from Eamon Grennan (who will be reading at UP on Thursday)
-Catches up with Azadeh Moaveni after her recent stop in Portland to promote her new book Honeymoon In Tehran

From a prolific PDX Writer Daily:

-A call to action from the Oregon Cultural Trust to save over $1.8 million in funding
-From The Library we peek in on onetime Portland resident Miranda July, and Farley Mowat
-A Q&A with Nov. 22, 1963 author Adam Braver
-The Snuggie Haiku Contest winner is announced
-Provides a link to the New York Times review of The Local News, the debut novel from PSU Professor Miriam Gershow

From Powells Books Blog:

-Guest contributor Mary Beard provides some insight into the UK’s system of giving authors a tiny royalty each time their book is borrowed from a library
-Guest blogger G. Xavier Robillard wonders who would win a fight, Unicorn or Narwhal?
-Guest contributor Glen David Gold on making the chapbook A Day’s Pleasure

From Paperfort:

-Just in case you weren’t paying attention (I wasn’t) Literary Arts has a series of podcasts entitled Three to Thirteen Writerly Minutes
-Rounds up the coverage Tracy Daugherty and Miriam Gershow have been getting

From The Omnivorous Alphabet:

-Original work from Lincoln’s Brenda Coe, and the Metropolitan Learning Center’s Kayla Haliski

From An Embarrassment Of Riches:

-Nicola reviews David Laskin’s The Children’s Blizzard

From Bookbroads:

-Provides their viewpoint on the debate to possibly rename Broadway Blvd. in honor of Cesar Chavez
-Provides a little publishing history

From The Writer’s Dojo:

-Nancy Flynn and James Bernard Frost deal with the challenges of life as writer

From Rose City Reader:

-An extremely impressive list with ratings of the books she read in 2005

From The Book Pirate:

-Updates us on the Kindle 2 Read-to-Me drama, and asks for your opinion

Author: Gabe Barber

Founder and publisher of Reading Local. I am an avid reader, primarily of non-fiction, and am ever curious to discover how local literature fits into the increasingly volatile literary landscape.

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