Short Stories: Portland Lit Around the Web

Every Saturday we will bring you links to articles from around the web featuring members of Portland’s lit community.  Please feel free to pass along any you come across as well, by emailing us at portland@readinglocal.com, and we will include them in next week’s edition of Short Stories.

Sage Cohen’s short story “Living Below the Radar” was featured on News Sip:

When I was a little girl facing one of the endless Important Events du jour that inevitably went Terribly Wrong, my father would say to me, “Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.” My father knows many things. I have collected his gifts of wisdom as a kind of dowry. He has much to say about pain, truth, energy, healing, love and kindness. But it is this aphorism about experience that has been my little lifeboat of truth, helping me navigate the farthest waters of disappointment, the darkest hours of alone.

Powell’s Books is looking for a Sidelines Buyer for their airport store:

Powell’s Books, the nation’s top independent bookseller, is looking for an experienced Sidelines Buyer for our location at Portland International Airport. In addition to books, Powell’s carries a wide variety of gift items. The position is responsible for supporting the Sidelines Lead Buyer in the acquisition, merchandising, inventory control, and financial success of the fun, quirky, locally made, and/or beautiful gift items that make up the sidelines department at our stores at PDX.

Ooligan Press’s Melissa Brumer (@ooliganpress), Janine Eckhart (@JanineEckhart), and Natalie Guidry (@ooliganSPI) took part in Follow the Reader’s discussion on environmentally sustainable publishing:

We are incredibly impressed by Portland State University’s student-run Ooligan Press, whose OpenBook Series is being produced as sustainably as possible – with a focus on paper and ink sources, design strategies, efficient and safe manufacturing methods, innovating printing technologies, support of local and regional companies, and corporate responsibility of their contractors. As such, we are delighted to have the pleasure of not one, not two, but THREE really smart Ooligan women joining us.

Zachary Schomburg is remarkable:

zachary schomburg has a way with words. he twists them into extraordinary things. he takes old words & makes them new. have you heard of him? no, no, no? well you must do yourself a favour & purchase one of his books. your heart will swell, your heart will burst, your heart won’t know what to do.

Peter Fogtdal records a belated promotional interview for his novel The Tsar’s Dwarf (Hawthorne Books):