A perfect place to stop this weekend for holiday shopping that supports your local publishers, writers, artists, collectives, galleries, bookshops, etc. would be the Publication Fair. Come and see (and buy) the fruits of our local, young-person retirement community.
Jacob Schraer
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Page Turn
The good times keep coming with last night’s Page Turn event at The Cleaners. Based around a series of talks by publishers, writers, editors, and designers, the evening was about business and creative people finding innovative ways to keep publishing and literature alive and profitable in the digitized world. As Dave Weich explained, none of […]
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Indie Lit Roadshow Recap
Pioneer Place on a holiday weekend seems like an unlikely place for a poetry reading and folk music performance. But the Indie Lit Roadshow, centered around a Pop-Up Bookstore featuring small press titles, was one of the most charming events I’ve attended all year. The readings and performances had a very relaxed, informal feel to […]
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LOTS Of Weekend Reading Events
Some interesting events popping up this weekend starting with tonight’s release party for Alex Felton’s book Funny or Die at Container Corps (1322 N Killingsworth Street) at 7 p.m. The book “mines the darker, stranger corners of his day job, the Multnomah County Library, to create subversive comedy in the form of digital collages.” Beverages […]
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Zombies Bum Me Out
Zombies just keep coming, and you can’t stop them. Since 28 Days Later came out in 2002, they have lumbered inexorably forth, an endless trend. Just a year ago, with the release of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, I thought the trend had reached its peak, and yet The Walking Dead television series has garnered […]
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Joann Sfar Remakes The Little Prince
Joining the list of unneeded remakes (see Vampire Slayer, Buffy the), frighteningly prolific French cartoonist Joann Sfar, has recently released a complete graphic retelling of the classic children book and cornerstone of my adolescence, Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince. It’s a pretty great accomplishment, though it’s hard for Sfar to go wrong working from […]
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Another Reason America Is Great
While you’re probably wasting today away with a nice meal, a warm home, family, football, a movie, a bong, or whatever form your lack of initiative takes, this lady has been waiting in line since Monday for Black Friday. Her ambition, her drive, her “firstness,” is a shining beacon in America’s dark night. (Associated Press)
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Bad Blood Brings Brandon Downing To Portland
The recently christened Bad Blood Reading Series, founded by Zachary Schomburg, Joseph Mains, and Drew Swenhaugen, continues tonight at the Work/Sound Gallery with poetry and films by Brandon Downing. Downing is a New York based artist whose illustrated poetry book Lake Antiquity gets a good analysis here. Get a taste of the kinds of short […]
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Destroy All Movies!!! Signing Party
A modest winter goal: to watch every movie that features a punk or new wave character. But how will I track down these no doubt diverse and obscure films? Thanks to Ned Lannamann, I know to turn to Zack Carlson and Brian Connolly. These brave souls, appearing at Reading Frenzy tonight, have compiled an exhaustive […]
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Publication Studio Luncheon With Justin Spring
Earlier this year, the Publication Studio moved into its new location downtown at 717 SW Ankeny (on that mini block behind Mary’s Strip Club). Run by Matthew Stadler and Patricia No, the print shop’s aim is to “print and bind books on demand, creating original work with artists and writers we admire, books that both […]
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Public Isolation Project
If you commute down east Burnside you might have noticed that, for the past week, someone seems to have taken up residence in the front office of the bSIDE6 building. The modest abode includes a living room, bedroom, kitchenette, guitar, exercycle, and workspace. Whatever the resident looks at on her computer is projected on the […]