Please join us Tuesday, March 16 at The Writers’ Dojo for Read to Rebuild: A Haiti Reading Benefit, featuring six outstanding Portland writers. This is the fourth in a special series of interviews with each of these readers. Look for more Read to Rebuild interviews in the next few days.
Tom Spanbauer is a critically acclaimed author and the founder of the Dangerous Writing technique and workshops. As a writer he has explored issues of race, of sexual identity, and of how we make a family for ourselves in order to surmount the limitations of the families into which we are born.
His four published novels, including Faraway Places (Hawthorne Books), The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon (Harper Perennial), In The City Of Shy Hunters (Grove Press), and Now is the Hour (HMH), are notable for their combination of a fresh and lyrical prose style with solid storytelling.
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Please join us Tuesday, March 16 at The Writers’ Dojo for Read to Rebuild: A Haiti Reading Benefit, featuring six outstanding Portland writers. This is the second in a special series of interviews with each of these readers. Look for more Read to Rebuild interviews in the next few days.
Ben Parzybok is a novelist and web developer living with his family in Portland, OR. His first book, Couch, was released by Small Beer Press in late 2008. He also runs the startup Walker Tracker. A few of Ben’s other projects can be seen on the ideacog front page.
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If you are a Portland author, poet, zinester, cartoonist or publisher looking to publicize your new release(s), email us (portland@readinglocal.com): the title of the release, a brief description, when it will be available, and a link to where it can be purchased or pre-ordered. We will then help you to promote your new release by posting this information on the site.
New Release:
The Big Book of Gross Stuff (Gibbs Smith Publisher), the latest release from Bart King, is now available for purchase.
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If you are a Portland author, poet, zinester, cartoonist or publisher looking to publicize your new release(s), email us (portland@readinglocal.com): the title of the release, a brief description, when it will be available, and a link to where it can be purchased or pre-ordered. We will then help you to promote your new release by posting this information on the site.
New Release:
Volette I: Seven Saints & a Cigarette Butt a new chapbook from Wil Peregrine is now available for purchase. Seven Saints is also available at Reading Frenzy.
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If you are a Portland author, poet, zinester, cartoonist or publisher looking to publicize your new release(s), email us (portland@readinglocal.com): the title of the release, a brief description, when it will be available, and a link to where it can be purchased or pre-ordered. We will then help you to promote your new release by posting this information on the site.
New Release:
Little Prisons, a new collection of confessional poems, rants and observations from Nandi Alexander is now available for purchase.
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Jennifer Richter is a poet and author of a prize-winning poetry collection appearing shortly from Southern Illinois University Press. Keith Scribner is a novelist and director of Oregon State University’s MFA program. Dao Strom is a novelist and singer-songwriter with both books and albums to her name. Together, they’ll respond to the prompt, “Patient,” at tonight’s Loggernaut reading at Urban Grind East. Catch them there, starting at 7:30. But catch them here first, with us…
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If you are a Portland author, poet, zinester, cartoonist or publisher looking to publicize your new release(s), email us (portland@readinglocal.com): the title of the release, a brief description, when it will be available, and a link to where it can be purchased or pre-ordered. We will then help you to promote your new release by posting this information on the site.
New Release:
The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight, the debut novel from Gina Ochsner is now available for purchase. Ms. Ochsner will be reading from Russian Dreambook tomorrow (2-24) at 7:30pm at Annie Bloom’s Books.
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If you are a Portland author, poet, zinester, cartoonist or publisher looking to publicize your new release(s), email us (portland@readinglocal.com): the title of the release, a brief description, when it will be available, and a link to where it can be purchased or pre-ordered. We will then help you to promote your new release by posting this information on the site.
New Release:
In celebration of his retirement as a writer, Charles Deemer has published A Charles Deemer Reader (Sextant Press). The collection is available in paperback from The Sextant Press, and also as a free ebook at Lulu.
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Heidi Durrow’s Bellwether-prize-winning debut novel, The Girl Who Fell From The Sky, is the story of Rachel, a girl who loses her Danish mother and African-American father in a tragic accident. Durrow, a native Portlander, will be in town for two readings in the next few days. You can catch her this Friday 2/19 at Powell’s on Burnside (7:30 pm), and next Tuesday 2/23 at the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center (7 pm).
We caught up with Durrow to learn more about the book before she hits a microphone near you.
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If you are a Portland author, poet, zinester, cartoonist or publisher looking to publicize your new release(s), email us (portland@readinglocal.com): the title of the release, a brief description, when it will be available, and a link to where it can be purchased or pre-ordered. We will then help you to promote your new release by posting this information on the site.
New Release:
Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness, a new release from Ariel Gore is now available for purchase. Ms. Gore will be reading from Bluebird next Tuesday, February 23rd at 7:00pm at Broadway Books.
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If you are a Portland author, poet, zinester, cartoonist or publisher looking to publicize your new release(s), email us (portland@readinglocal.com): the title of the release, a brief description, when it will be available, and a link to where it can be purchased or pre-ordered. We will then help you to promote your new release by posting this information on the site.
New Release:
Remember to Wave (Tin Fish Press), a new chapbook from Kaia Sand is now available for purchase.
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f you are a Portland author, poet, zinester, cartoonist or publisher looking to publicize your new release(s), email us (portland@readinglocal.com): the title of the release, a brief description, when it will be available, and a link to where it can be purchased or pre-ordered. We will then help you to promote your new release by posting this information on the site.
New Release:
A Life Transformed-By Accident (Outskirts Press), a new memoir by Helen Decker Liere, is now available for purchase.
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