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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Over 30 organizations offering “support and opportunities for writers,” will be present this Sunday (2-28) at the Writers Resource Fair held downtown at the Central Library. The fair is a wonderful opportunity to network with literary minded individuals, and celebrate the regions “lively literary scene.”
The incredible lineup of particpating organizations includes:
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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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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.
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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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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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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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.
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 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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From what we could find (please contact us if you have an event you would like us to add to this or future schedules), the local book events for the week of January 23, 2010 through January 29, 2010 are:
Saturday January 23-
Voices In Verse (Cedar Mill Community Library, @10:00am-11:00am): Bring along a cup of coffee and share your own poetry or listen to others read their favorites. The group meets on the fourth Saturday morning of each month in the library’s upstairs meeting room.
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Mountain Writers presents Jim Kopp (The Press Club, @7:30pm): Jim Kopp is Director of the Aubrey R. Watzek Library at Lewis & Clark College in Portland. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from George Washington University and other graduate degrees in history and library science. His undergraduate degree in history and English is from the University of Oregon. His book, Eden Within Eden: Oregon’s Utopian Heritage (OSU Press, 2009) surveys nearly three hundred communal groups attempted or planned in Oregon over the past 150 years. He has written and presented on several aspects of utopian studies in both its literary and communal manifestations. His extensive private collection on the works by and about Edward Bellamy and of American utopian literature is described in a book published last fall by Berberis Press at Lewis & Clark. He lives with his wife, Sue, appropriately in Aurora, Oregon, which was the earliest communal settlement in the Pacific Northwest. In addition to his varied scholarly pursuits, Jim is completing a children’s book on Aurora Keil the daughter of the founder of the Aurora Colony and for whom the colony was named who died of smallpox in 1862 at the age of thirteen.
Other Book Events Today:
Free Puppet Show (Green Bean Books, @4:00pm): Come see a free puppet show based on the book The Mitten and performed by the talented Yvonne De Maat of Heart in Hand Preschool. The show is appropriate for kids ages 3-7 years old and will be limited to the first 15 who arrive.
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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 Mine (Create Space) a new novel by Daniel R. Cobb is now available for purchase. Mr. Cobb will be reading from The Mine at Annie Bloom’s Books on March 10th at 7:30pm. The book can also be purchased through this link, and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Oregon Chapter of the Sierra Club.
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Garrison Keillor, of Lake Wobegon and Prairie Home Companion fame, will be at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall on January 26 and 27. You can find tickets (starting at $25) here.
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