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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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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This marks the 1,000th post on Reading Local: Portland. Whether this is the first post you are reading, or if you have been here for all 1,000, we would like to say thank you for being a part of the Reading Local community! I would also like to thank all of the contributors and both of my partners for helping RLP get to this point. I could have never done it without each of you!
Here’s to the next 1,000!
Please join me in welcoming Reading Local’s newest contributor, Amy Baskin:
Amy Baskin reads YA and children’s literature sometimes to escape, sometimes to help interpret reality. She writes for pretty much the same reasons. Like many Portlanders, she hikes, bathes, sleeps and eats with book in hand. Her limited concept of home decorating involves stacks of books- in corners, on tables, where the TV used to be. She blogs about kid lit at Euphoria and posts timed writing challenges at Prompt Writes.
Who is this masked man behind Reading Local anyway? You can find out tomorrow (2/1 at noon) if you hop on over to the Central Library and attend Title Raves, wherein the Portland Mercury’s Alison Hallett, award winning author Laini Taylor, Multnomah County Library blogger Emily-Jane Dawson, and myself will be raving about our favorite books and the blogs that discuss them. You will have the opportunity to rave about your reading faves as well, be they books or blogs!
I was asked to provide a list of the books and blogs I would be raving about, so I thought I might share them here as well:
Books- Couch by Ben Parzybok; Dot-to-Dot, Oregon by Sid Miller; Chasing Smoke and Lost Dog by Bill Cameron; Everything Was Fine Until Whatever by Chelsea Martin; Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead – The Frank Meeink story, as told to Jody M. Roy.
Blogs- Portland Mercury’s Blogtown; Rose City Reader; Oregonian Books; Paper Fort; Pinball Publishing’s Coin-Op; Galley Cat; Tin House Books Blog; and the Hawthorne Books Blog.
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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 30, 2010 through February 5, 2010 are:
Saturday January 30-
Ink Splash (Writers’ Dojo, @10:00am, $15 suggested donation): Ink Splash is an annual workshop for young writers offered in conjunction with the submission period for Ink-Filled Page’s Youth Issue. Join the editors and special guest poetry ambassador Celeste Thompson for an inspiring day of literary creation. The day will include poetry writing prompts as well as personal creation time. We’ll also workshop one of your poems or stories, highlighting your writing talent and offering suggestions for further exploration. Light refreshments will be provided. This workshop is geared toward young adults in grades 6–12. Bring: Four copies of a poem or story to workshop.
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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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Future so Bright we gotta wear Shades...Yeah I went there.
You’ve read Mr. Barber’s Reading Local One Year In, of his efforts to get Reading Local started, where it came from and how far it’s come. He’s asked me to say a few words on our plans for this year.
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Please join me in welcoming Reading Local’s newest contributor, Cara Holman:
After a cancer diagnosis three years ago, Cara Holman joined The Women with Cancer Writing Group at OHSU, informally dubbed The Healing Pen. Since then she has had over three dozen personal essays, creative nonfiction stories and short form poetry published both online and in print anthologies. She also belongs to the Cedar Mill based Writers’ Mill critique group. She blogs about books and writing at her blog Prose Posies, and has a special interest in literature with a Northwest connection, and keeping out-of-print books alive. Besides writing, she enjoys gardening, Tai Chi, yoga, working New York Times crossword puzzles, volunteering for the Beaverton School District, Komen for the Cure, and Wordstock, and spending time with her family.
A little over a year ago Reading Local Portland was born with this post. I had recently become a stay-at-home father and found myself with some time on my hands while the lil guy was taking his naps, and having always been an avid reader thought it might be fun to set about exploring what was going on in Portland’s literary community. It seems comical to me now, but I was actually very worried that there wouldn’t be enough things to write about. Little did I know just how vibrant Portland’s lit scene is, and one of my great joys this past year has been connecting with some of the people behind all of that activity.
Even though I tend to focus on the future, almost to a fault, I thought it would be fun to take a look back at some of the highlights from this past year. So, without further ado, here goes:
Interviews-
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