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Reading Local Interview: Evan Wright

29th April 2010 by admin under Authors, Interview     

In Hella Nation: Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe, Wingnut’s War Against the GAP, and Other Adventures with the Totally Lost Tribes of America (Putnam Adult), Evan Wright dives into American subcultures. His reportage is fair and thoughtful, no matter how offensive or way-out the subjects might be to mainstream readers. [...]

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Reading Local Interview: L.K. Madigan

21st April 2010 by admin under Uncategorized     

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a teenage guy? Or, maybe you are a teenage guy and you’ve wondered what it’s like to read solid fiction about one. In her debut novel Flash Burnout (HMH), Portland author L.K. Madigan has deftly captured the voice of Blake. Blake’s an affable fifteen year-old who [...]

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Reading Local Interview: Lee White

7th April 2010 by admin under Uncategorized     

When publishing a picture book, writers can be either limited or liberated by the pairing of an illustrator. Portland artist Lee White‘s the kind of artist writers hope for. His imaginative settings and fanciful characters bring a story to life. An honors graduate from Pasadena’s Art Center College of Design, Lee is constantly painting and [...]

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Reading Local Interview: Lisa Schroeder

31st March 2010 by admin under Uncategorized     

OK Portlanders: let’s get one thing clear, here, as there seems to be some confusion. There are two fantastic artists, both named Lisa Schroeder, who call Portland home. One Lisa Schroeder nurtures bellies with her delectable restaurant fare at Mother’s Bistro & Bar and Mama Mia Trattoria. Her medium is “Mother Food”. Then there’s “not [...]

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Reading Local Interview: Elva Maxine Beach

12th March 2010 by admin under Authors, Interview     

Elva Maxine Beach was born in Missouri to a family of preachers, teachers, and storytellers. She studied writing with Andrei Codrescu and others at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, then lived in Austin for more than a decade. In 2008, New Belleville Press published Neurotica, a fictionalized account of her varied and risk-taking sex [...]

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Reading Local Interview: Johanna Wright

25th February 2010 by admin under Uncategorized     

Portland author/illustrator Johanna Wright paints hidden worlds that only she (and children) can see. ‘Little people’ reading books atop mushrooms. A family of birds snuggling on a telephone wire. Babies swaddled in quilted cocoons. Family bands making music while straddling tree branches. Her disarming style evokes comfort and luminous warmth found only in secret hideaways [...]

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Reading Local Portland Interview: Margaret Erhart

31st January 2010 by admin under Authors, Interview     

Don’t miss novelist Margaret Erhart, who will be in town for a reading from her latest book, The Butterflies of Grand Canyon, at Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, Monday, February 1, 2010 at 7:30 pm. From the book description: “Set against the backdrop of the majestic Grand Canyon and the nineteen-fifties American southwest, novelist Margaret Erhart [...]

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Reading Local Portland on Think Out Loud

21st January 2010 by admin under Authors, Books, Interview     

Yesterday, OPB’s Think Out Loud ran an interview with Olympia-based artist Nikki McClure and her co-author Cynthia Rylant.  McClure and Rylant won a 2010 Pacific Northwest Bookseller Award for their beautiful children’s book All In A Day. RLP also interviewed McClure a while back, and she was kind enough to remember that interview, and mention [...]

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Reading Local Portland Interview: Sid Miller

20th January 2010 by gabe under Uncategorized     

Today’s interview is with Sid Miller, the founder and executive editor of Burnside Review, which has a new issue due out in April.  In addition to his duties with the journal, Sid has two new poetry collections out, one entitled Dot-to-Dot, Oregon (Ooligan Press) and the other Nixon on the Piano (David Robert Brooks).  In [...]

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Koin Local 6 Helps Powells.com Celebrate 15 Years-Featuring Interview With Michael Powell

10th November 2009 by gabe under Books, Bookstores, Interview     

KOIN Newschannel’s Keep It Local program stopped into Powells yesterday in order to help them celebrate 15 years of selling books online.  The story includes an interesting behind-the-scenes look at the processes involved in preparing online orders for shipping.  The end of the video features an interview with Powell’s Books President & Founder Michael Powell, [...]

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