Reading Local: Portland

Hi Book Folk! So unfortunately, this is going to be a Short Edition of the weekly roundup. I won’t make excuses, but I will say I will need a month of detox and some good calm reading to recover from a ridiculous weekend. Just too much. I look forward to the tasty words of Cormac McCarthy, Charles D’Ambrosio and maybe finishing the last few stories I have left in Portland Noir. And I will be back next week with a full host of links for your Portland Blog Roundup.

Hawthorne Books
Frank Meeink’s Lecture at Washington and Jefferson College – Nov. 19 2009
-An amazing several part video link to a lecture by Frank Meeink, whose story is told in Hawthorne Books coming title Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead

Powell’s Book Blog
A Very Fine Engagement
-Now I am truly, truly sad I couldn’t make it to Kevin Sampsell’s reading last week for his book A Common Pornography. He also managed to squeeze in a proposal to his girlfriend! Oh and there’s some other news at the bottom of this post, but it’s not nearly as exciting as the warm fuzzy from the engagement pictures.

Literary Arts
Q & A with Disquieted Delve seminar guide Sara Guest
-A Great Q & A with Sara Guest about her leading the Disquieted Delve  seminar for Literary Arts

Author: Spencer Newlin-Cushing

Spencer has been telling stories since kindergarten, hoping to entertain, illuminate and understand the world around him. In 2005 he graduated from the University of Puget Sound with a BA in English, where he spent two years as the Editor-in-Chief of the Crosscurrents Literary Magazine. In pursuit of the excitement and challenge of publishing he found his way to the Denver Publishing Institute where he connected with other book-nerds like himself who wanted nothing more than to help bring more stories to the masses. When he is not obsessed with Post-Apocalyptic narratives he is spending time with his wife, his cats, or his ambitions to bring Short Fiction to the forefront of the reading market.”

Spencer Newlin-Cushing has written 36 articles for us.