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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
