Every Saturday we will bring you links to articles from around the web featuring members of Portland’s lit community. Please feel free to pass along any you come across as well, by emailing us at portland@readinglocal.com, and we will include them in next week’s edition of Short Stories.
The Big Grabowski co-authors Carolyn J. Rose and Mike Nettleton are interviewed on My Shelf:
Deb: Collaborative writing presents unique challenges; how was your collaborative experience? Any hints for success?
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Every Saturday we will bring you links to articles from around the web featuring members of Portland’s lit community. Please feel free to pass along any you come across as well, by emailing us at portland@readinglocal.com, and we will include them in next week’s edition of Short Stories.
Underland Press is profiled as part of the B&N Review Small Press Spotlight series:
Since its inception in 2008, Underland Press has illustrated—by the small run of superior books it has so far published—the value of having a strong and individual creative vision guiding an enterprise, in place of a diffuse and lowest-common-denominator corporate consensus.
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Every Saturday we will bring you links to articles from around the web featuring members of Portland’s lit community. Please feel free to pass along any you come across as well, by emailing us at portland@readinglocal.com, and we will include them in next week’s edition of Short Stories.
The New Low-Maintenance Garden (Timber Press) by Valerie Easton, gets a nice cover shot and spotlight in the San Francisco Chronicle:
We’re gardening in a new millennium, with challenges such as limited space, dwindling natural resources and less free time, yet most of us do it the way our grandparents did, says Easton.
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PBS Arts Corespondent Jeffrey Brown interviewed Ursula K. Le Guin about the state of reading, her opposition to the Google settlement, and what she is working on:
JEFFREY BROWN: Let me start big first. There’s so much to talk nowadays about the state of reading, the state of the book, whether books might even be on their way out. What do you think?
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Over on Salon Ariel Gore “talks about the subject everyone can disagree on — women and happiness.”:
How do you think feminism became the fall girl for women’s unhappiness?
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Over on Wallet Pop Marc Acito discusses the Supreme Court’s decision to allow unlimited corporate political donations:
It’s official – the words “Supreme Court Justice” are an oxymoron. Or just moron, period. Thanks to the Supremes’ recent decision giving corporations free reign to purchase politicians, now we can look forward to product placement in the Oval Office, logos emblazoned on the walls of Congress and endorsement deals for Samuel Alito. (“I take Viagra so I can screw America!”)
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Underland Press Founder Victoria Blake is interviewed on Fatally Yours:
Fatally Yours: How did your time at Dark Horse help prepare you for launching your own publishing house, Underland Press? In what ways were you unprepared?
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Sage Cohen’s short story “Living Below the Radar” was featured on News Sip:
When I was a little girl facing one of the endless Important Events du jour that inevitably went Terribly Wrong, my father would say to me, “Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.” My father knows many things. I have collected his gifts of wisdom as a kind of dowry. He has much to say about pain, truth, energy, healing, love and kindness. But it is this aphorism about experience that has been my little lifeboat of truth, helping me navigate the farthest waters of disappointment, the darkest hours of alone.
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Today’s Reading Local Portland interview is with writer Margaret Malone. Margaret’s work has appeared in The Missouri Review, Swink, The Wordstock Ten Anthology, Rhapsoidia, Tablet, Too Much Coffee Man, on latimes.com, and elsewhere. She is a volunteer facilitator with Write Around Portland and a co-host of SHARE. Recently, Literary Arts awarded her one of eight writers’ grants in recognition of literary excellence. You can catch Margaret reading tonight at Mississippi Studios as part of the True Stories show.
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Ursula K. Le Guin rallys the troops against the Google Settlement over on the Book View Cafe Blog:
How, where, can I ask writers who are unhappy with the Settlement to speak up — to stand up and be counted? We don’t have to agree on every detail, but I think there are a lot of us who see it as urgently important to let it be known that writers support the principle of copyright, and want the Copyright Office, the judges, the publishers, and the libraries to know that we intend to keep control of our work, in print or out, printed or electronic, believing that the people who do the work, rather than any corporation, should have the major voice in how it’s used and who profits from it.
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Wend, the Portland based adventure magazine, is featured in a Folio article on niche publications:
Wilson says Wend is having a lot of success getting registrations and driving participation with online and newsletter-driven contests.
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