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Reading Frenzy Looks to Kickstart Events Programming

Reading Frenzy is unlike any other place in Portland.  The events, the blog, the items on the shelves, all exude an integral link with Portland’s creative community.  This is due in large part to Chloe Eudaly, the shops faithful proprietress, and her passion for supporting and promoting independent publishers and artists.  To help prove the [...]

How Portland Bookstores Will Benefit From the New Reading Local

In previous posts we have discussed how Portland authors and publishers will benefit from the new Reading Local: Portland, and in today’s post we’ll take a look at how Portland bookstores can utilize the new site.  Specifically we will look at how bookstores can use the site to reach new customers, interact with loyal customers, [...]

Microcosm Expands Zine Store, Looking to Kickstart New "Scam" Anthology

Earlier this year we posted about Microcosm Publishing expanding their SE storefront and rolling out their “zine trike,” and somewhat buried within that post was a hint from Microcosm’s Jessie Duke about yet another possible expansion.  Well, early last month that hint became a reality as they moved to a new location on 636 SE [...]

Pacific Northwest Reader Spotlight #10

Editors Note: In celebration of the release of The Pacific Northwest Reader, Gigi Little has been spotlighting essays found in The Reader on her blog ut omnia bene, and has graciously agreed to re-post these spotlights here on RLP.  The PNW Reader is only available in independent bookstores, with proceeds benefiting the American Booksellers Foundation [...]

Powell's showcases The Pacific Northwest Reader

Gigi Little, Merchandising and Promotions Coordinator for Powell’s City of Books on Burnside, has put together some gorgeous window and in-store displays for The Pacific Northwest Reader, just out from Delphinium Books. The collection features pieces from booksellers, librarians, and other bookish types from the Pacific Northwest (including local writers Gigi, Matthew Simmons, and–full disclosure–RLP’er [...]

Help the Great Northwest Bookstore

Phil Wikelund, owner and manager of the Great Northwest Bookstore, has established a bank account to accept donations following the fire that destroyed most of the store and its stock on May 2nd. From today’s Shelf Awareness: Wikelund plans to host a benefit and book sale to address the cost of demolishing the building. He [...]

Checking In On Monograph Bookwerks (Photos!)

Monograph Bookwerks opened Wednesday on NE 27th, just off Alberta. Co-owners John Brodie and Blair Saxon-Hill have designed a beautiful small store specializing in art books. Both owners are artists themselves. Brodie is a painter and installation artist. Saxon-Hill paints and sculpts. They also have day jobs: owner of Le Happy crepe restaurant and an [...]

Save the date: The Collected launches 5/7

Join Publication Studio for the launch of poet Jacqueline Suskin’s first collection, The Collected this Friday, May 7, 6-10 pm at Together Gallery (2916 NE Alberta Street). Also at the launch: new books by Howard W. Robertson, Ari Marcopoulos, and Jessica Jackson Hutchins (both in the Whitney Biennial this year.) They’ll have live music by [...]

Monograph Bookwerks, Portland's Newest Bookstore, Opens for Business Tomorrow!

With the sad news about the Great Northwest Bookstore casting a dark cloud over Portland’s lit community we are surely in need of something to cheer us up, and nothing can cure the blues like a new place to shop for books!  Enter Monograph Bookwerks, a new bookstore located on 27th and Alberta, dedicated to [...]

Great Northwest Bookstore Destroyed by Fire

The Great Northwest Bookstore, a primarily online used bookseller located in historic Lair Hill, was destroyed by fire yesterday.  The Oregonian has the report: A bookseller mourned the loss of his livelihood and more than 100,000 books as firefighters continued extinguishing a three-alarm fire that engulfed the Great Northwest Bookstore on Sunday. In a home in [...]

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