In the Portland of the late ’80s and ’90s, there was one publication that influenced and guided the music and arts community more than any other: a free, wildly designed, oversized newsprint magazine called Snipehunt. Started in 1988 by now-famed poster artist Mike King, the magazine came into its own when contributor Kathy Molloy took […]
Joshua James Amberson
Joshua James Amberson's work has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, and Tin House, among others. He's the author of the chapbook Everyday Mythologies on Two Plum Press, and he's currently working on a young adult novel about memory loss and a collection of essays about eyeballs.
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TBA: Sanity TV Puts Autumn Knight’s Audience on the Spot
Courtesy of the artist / PICA Stepping up to the door of Sanity TV, I was handed a chair. Once I entered that door, my chair and I were thrust into the world of a fictional daytime talk show. Autumn Knight performed as the talk show’s host, and she also guided people (and their chairs) […]
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Author Interview: Paul Collins’ Blood and Ivy Investigates a Scandalous Harvard Murder
Norton Though he keeps a low profile, Paul Collins is easily one of Portland’s most accomplished and prolific writers. He’s been a regular contributor to publications like the Believer, New Scientist, and the New Yorker. He was NPR’s “literary detective” for roughly a decade (2003-2013). Collins even has his own McSweeney’s publishing imprint (the Collins […]
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Author Q&A with Portland Literary Detective Paul Collins
His Tenth Book Blood and Ivy Investigates a Scandalous Harvard Murder
Author Q&A with Portland’s literary detective Paul Collins on his new book Blood and Ivy.
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Our Picks for Tin House’s Free Summer Reading Series
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: LESLEY NNEKA ARIMAH BY EMILY BAXTER, MELISSA FEBOS BY DEBORAH FEINGOLD, DANEZ SMITH BY HIEU MINH NGUYEN, AND CATHERINE LACEY BY WILLY SOMMA Each year in July, local publisher Tin House hosts its Summer Workshop at Reed College, bringing writers from around the country to Portland for a week of workshops […]
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Our Picks for Tin House’s Free Summer Reading Series
Listen to These Authors Read in an Outdoor Amphitheater at Magic Hour
Here are our picks for Tin House’s free summer readings series.
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Hate Poetry? Matthew Zapruder’s New Book Is Here to Help
MARLOWE DOBBE “Clearly, there is something about poetry that rattles and mystifies people, that puts them off, that makes them feel as if there is something wrong,” writes Matthew Zapruder in Why Poetry, a book that seeks to change this sentiment. Conceived as a welcome mat to those who feel lost when presented with a […]
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Everything You Know About Poetry Is Wrong
Matthew Zapruder’s New Book, Why Poetry, Is Here to Help
Matthew Zapruder’s new book, Why Poetry, is here to help.
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Nicole Krauss Transforms What We Think We Know
The Novelist’s Latest, Forest Dark, Questions Everything
The novelist’s latest, Forest Dark, questions everything.
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The Unlikely Career of a Portland Experimental Filmmaker and Installation Artist Vanessa Renwick
Next Level Fucked Up Vanessa Renwick Early this year, on a clear winter night a week into Trump’s presidency, I took a bus deep into Portland’s East Side to see local artist and experimental filmmaker Vanessa Renwick perform. The event was part of a long-running, variety show series that’s held sporadically in different houses throughout […]
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Vanessa Renwick, Accidental Visionary
The Unlikely Career of a Portland Experimental Filmmaker and Installation Artist
The unlikely career of a Portland experimental filmmaker and installation artist.
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Review: EMA’s Exile in the Outer Ring Is Bold and Uncomfortable
I first stumbled upon the work of Erika M. Anderson in the mid-’00s. Her band Gowns sounded both completely familiar and wholly unprecedented, bridging the deconstructed anti-folk sound of that moment with the ominousness of goth artists like Coil and Current 93. It felt like the end of something great when they called it quits […]