Welcome to another short roundup of a few of the links I found intriguing from the last week. I need to spend a little more time reading this week to give you a more comprehensive list, but I hope you enjoy the links here.
Tin House Books Blog
Barry Hannah, 1942-2010
-A wonderful interview between Tom Franklin and Barry Hannah from last summer.
Rose City Reader
Pro-Choice
-A blog post with a great title about how the Rose City Reader chooses her next book. I am always curious how people find and decide to open their next book.
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Happy Monday Book Folk! While we have certainly been busy putting together our Read to Rebuild Event, which we hope you all will come to, I did take a little time to gather a few local links I found interesting.
Mercury Book Blog
Waiting on the Wonder Bread Line
- Another nod to Gina Ochsner and her debut Novel and a great little interview about how happy she is all the time.
Oregonlive – Oregonian Book Blog
Northwest Writers at Work: Ursula K. Le Guin is 80 and taking on Google
- This article makes my little heart happy. I respect Ms. Le Guin and love her work and the fact that she’s taking on the Google Book Settlement in her own way is wonderful.
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Happy Monday Book Crew! Here’s a few pieces I found interesting over this last week. Enjoy.
Powell’s Book Blog
The Lost Origins of the Essay
-A book I definitely want to pick up
Oregon Live
Portland science-fiction writer David D. Levine spends two weeks on Mars — in Utah
-I am jealous. I’ll admit it. This. Is. Awesome.
Paper Fort
Fellowship recipient Jessica Johnson
-Another excellent interview for one of the authors you should all keep your eyes on.
Howdy Book Folk!
I know you are out enjoying President’s Day, but just in case you are looking for some wonderful links to local sites talking about Books, well I have a few right here in my bag just for you.
Oregon Live
Portland writer Lidia Yuknavitch signs two-book deal with Hawthorne Books
-The venerable Mr. Baker at the Oregonian got this one before we did, but it’s exciting news for Hawthorne Books, Ms. Yuknavitch and all of us. Looking forward to these books.
Publish your own book? It’s easy. Author Steve Almond explains
-Okay so this ends up being a link to a link to the article on The Rumpus (which I love by the way), but I think Self-publishing should be a continued conversation in today. Not only to review its successes and horrible pitfalls, but to help remove the stigma of such a plan of action for authors.
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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.
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This marks the 1,000th post on Reading Local: Portland. Whether this is the first post you are reading, or if you have been here for all 1,000, we would like to say thank you for being a part of the Reading Local community! I would also like to thank all of the contributors and both of my partners for helping RLP get to this point. I could have never done it without each of you!
Here’s to the next 1,000!
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.
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.
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Hop on over to this post on Lit Drift and leave a comment for a chance to win a copy of Erased (Tin House Books) by Jim Krusoe. One random winner will be chosen and notified tomorrow (1/29) at 12:00pm. Here is the publishers description of Erased:
Abandonment, life, death, and, oddly, Cleveland are explored in the hilarious second installment of Jim Krusoe’s trilogy about resurrection.
In Erased, Krusoe takes on a dead mother who mysteriously sends notes from the beyond to her grown son, Theodore, the owner of a mail-order gardening-implement business. “I need to see you,” the first card reads. Theodore does what any sensible person would: he ignores it. But when he gets a second card that’s even more urgent, Theodore leaves his quiet home in St. Nils for a radiantly imagined Cleveland, Ohio, to track down his mother. There, aided by Uleene, the last remaining member of Satan’s Samaritans, an all-girl biker club, he searches through the realms of women’s clubs, art, rodent extermination, and sport fishing until he finds the answers he seeks.
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Heyo, Book Folk! Here’s your weekly round up of links to local Book Blogs. Enjoy!
Willamette Week
Live Review: The Moth at Gerding Theater
-In case you are like me and didn’t even realize that The Moth was coming to PDX until it was two months too late, then you can at least wallow in your melancholy with this wonderful review of the event via Willamette Week.
The Attic
The Attic wants your opinion
-The folks at the Haven for Writers want to know what your interests are in terms of classes and programs at The Attic. Take a few minutes of your time to help them out.
Write Around Portland
Upcoming Workshops
-Write Around Portland has some upcoming workshops you writers out there should check out.
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Writers Talking: Jess of Get Sconed! (Central Library, @1:00pm): Jess is the author of the award-winning vegan blog “Get Sconed!,” one of the longest-running vegan food blogs. She is the coauthor of Stumptown Vegans, a site for restaurant reviews and podcasts. She is also a recipe tester for Post Punk Kitchen cookbooks. Jess has been in Portland since 2004. She will talk about her blog, eating locally, and being a Portland vegan. Samples will be available! Samples will be available!
You can find other events on your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County, and the rest of this weeks Portland book events here.
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Future so Bright we gotta wear Shades...Yeah I went there.
You’ve read Mr. Barber’s Reading Local One Year In, of his efforts to get Reading Local started, where it came from and how far it’s come. He’s asked me to say a few words on our plans for this year.
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Please join me in welcoming Reading Local’s newest contributor, Cara Holman:
After a cancer diagnosis three years ago, Cara Holman joined The Women with Cancer Writing Group at OHSU, informally dubbed The Healing Pen. Since then she has had over three dozen personal essays, creative nonfiction stories and short form poetry published both online and in print anthologies. She also belongs to the Cedar Mill based Writers’ Mill critique group. She blogs about books and writing at her blog Prose Posies, and has a special interest in literature with a Northwest connection, and keeping out-of-print books alive. Besides writing, she enjoys gardening, Tai Chi, yoga, working New York Times crossword puzzles, volunteering for the Beaverton School District, Komen for the Cure, and Wordstock, and spending time with her family.
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