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Mar 6, 2010 0
We have another Sponsor we’d like to thank for donating to the prize raffle for our fine benefit Read to Rebuild. As we have stated before, it takes a whole community to pull off such an event and we are grateful to have such a wonderful community to support us as we try to support them.
Thank You Title Wave!!
Title Wave Books – They have offered up 2 $25 dollar gift certificates, a Title wave T-Shirt and a Hoodie.
Mar 4, 2010 0
Over at The Portland Mercury, Alison Hallett interviews Mary Gaitskill about writing, reading, and the perils of publishers’ book jackets.
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Feb 24, 2010 0
We are pleased to announce the event we’ve been working on for a few weeks. The first event Reading Local has ever put on and we are excited that it really sets the tone for what we would like to do with Reading Local.
Reading Local and Writers’ Dojo are proud to present: Read to Rebuild – A Haiti Benefit Reading
Haiti still needs our help. They must rebuild. Let the Portland literary community come together to do our part and help Mercy Corps in their efforts to support Haiti. (You can see our Fundraising Page Here.)
Feb 24, 2010 0
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…
Feb 19, 2010 0
An announcement from McKenzie Books and Cash4Books:
McKenzie Books and Cash4Books are happy to announce our Book-A-Day Giveaway!
A lucky reader will get a chance to win any book (priced $5 or less) in our inventory.
Feb 18, 2010 0
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.
Feb 16, 2010 0
Grab an eraser and find your calendar. Flip to this Friday, February 19. Erase whatever’s written down for your evening. Go ahead, I’ll wait.
Now write this in: Brad Rosen Benefit Reading, at the Blue Monk, 7 – 11 pm.
Feb 10, 2010 0
Thanks to Matthew Cheney at The Mumpsimus for pointing out this terrific deal from Tin House: The Tin House Writer’s Series.
For $39.95, you get four Tin House books: The Writer’s Notebook, The Story About the Story, The World Within, and The Journal of Jules Renard.
Seems like an awfully sweet idea for a Valentine’s Day gift…
Feb 5, 2010 0
Portland based Bedouin Books operates by a simple yet profound publishing philosophy:
To give emerging writers legitimate, quality collections of their work in bound form as a springboard to their careers, publishing credit, as well as something they can sell.
Originally started by editor M. D’Alessandro in a cramped studio in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District, Bedouin Books has lived up to its nomadic namesake as Portland is now its third home. A three year stint in Kauai was sandwiched in between. So it is only fitting that Bedouin Books’ new imprint has been named Nomads, which will focus on “emerging, non-fiction authors’ work in travel writing, memoir, essay and philosophy.”
Feb 4, 2010 0
Powell’s has released the winners of their Puddly Awards contest. Readers from all over got a chance to vote on the best book of the last decade. The list is long and in many cases overlaps with the Powell’s employee’s list. The top ten in each list have been given special discounts for new copies, 30% off to be exact.
The winners of the past decade in Fiction and Non-Fiction are:
Fiction – The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Feb 3, 2010 0
On Monday evening of this week I was able to make it to the Portland Fiction Project’s bimonthly reading performance at the Maiden. The series started last December 2009 and will continue on the first Monday of every other month. You can see them again come April 5th.
The show on Monday was really strong and well put together. All but one of the PFP authors read a short piece and they let Mr. Benjamin Parzybok read an excerpt from a new novel he’s working on.
Due to my schedule I showed up about 15 minutes late to the party, which in some cases might be “fashionably late” but in this case felt more like some form of crime, because I missed Matthew Corum’s reading all together and came in half way through Jacob Aiello’s piece. Surely there’s some crime on the books for that sort of thing, right? Next to read was Jeremy Benjamin and then Nicole Krueger. The place was quite full and I had to wait for a place to sit. I ended up at the bar near the front door and the sound didn’t carry as well as it could have so I ended up losing some of the stories during the first half of the show. I could hear some of the author’s best lines as they read them louder than others, but much of the stories were greedily eaten up by audience members trying to take the stories for their own. Plus it didn’t help when the bartender shook ice in a glass to make a cocktail during the middle of one of the stories. She’s just trying to do her job right?
Feb 1, 2010 0
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.
Reading Local presents Read to Rebuild: A Haiti Benefit Reading, March 16th at The Writers' Dojo.
An All-Star lineup includes Ariel Gore, Margaret Malone, Laura Moulton, Ben Parzybok, Kevin Sampsell, and Tom Spanbauer
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