February 1, 2010
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Well Good Day Portland Book Folk! Here we are again on Monday with another round of Links that I and others of the RL crew find interesting.Space Lasso

Portland Fiction Project
Sin Sanai: Part Two
-Tonight the Portland Fiction Project performs at the Maiden. 7pm. Are you checking our their site every day for the new fiction that goes up? Great stuff from prolific local authors.

Poets & Writers
Floyd Skloot Recommends
-Okay so PW isn’t a Blog, but Local Author Floyd Skloot details a bit of advice for writers and the ideas that come from everywhere.

Powell’s Blog
Kevin Sampsell’s Common Pornography Review
-Kevin Sampsell speaks tomorrow at Powell’s. Read a review of his memoir here. Should be a great reading. 

The Joy of Six
-I’ve loved the Six Word Memoir for quite some time. An interesting article on how all that started and became a popular meme. Can you write a novel in Six words? 

Dave Weich Blog
Book Tour 2.0
-I missed this one a while back, but the importance of the changing Book Industry affects authors everywhere. An interesting article about how different Book Tours could be done and setup by authors. In fact Gabe and I were talking about this on Saturday at the contributor gathering.

Furthermore: Where the Headlines Take You…
Street Art 101
-An engaging blog post about Graffiti.

Oregon Authors
2011-2012 Oregon Poet Laureate: Call for Nominations
-The Oregon Cultural Trust is seeking nominations for the next Poet Laureate. 

Rose City Reader
Opening Sentence of the Day
-A really amazing first line of a book. 

Oregonian
To my best friend, who gave this writer his voice
-A wonderful piece from the Oregonian about how a writer found his voice from his dog.

New in the Northwest: “Full Moon at Noontide”
-A Preview of a book by one of my Creative Writing Profs. at University of Puget Sound. I had to give a shout out. 

Paper Fort
Short Interview with Fellowship Recipient Aaron Ragan-Fore
Short Interview with Fellowship Recipient Jae Choi
-Two Fun Interviews with the Literary Arts Fellowship Winners.

Gabe Barber started Reading Local in January of 2009 as a vehicle for exploring Portland's literary scene. He's not an aspiring author, and you won't find his work on a bookshelf or in any prestigious lit rag. He is however, a full on book nerd, with a passion for independent literature.

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