KARL BLAU Trying on country classics. Jason Quigley IF YOU HANG around the Pacific Northwest indie scene long enough, you’ll eventually cross paths with Anacortes, Washington musician Karl Blau. In his 20-year career, Blau has been a touring member of Laura Veirs’ band, Mount Eerie, Earth, LAKE, and Your Heart Breaks; he’s served as a […]
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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Karl Blau Gets a Little Bit Country
The Experimental Songwriter Makes His Foray into Accessibility on Introducing
Karl Blau makes his foray into accessibility on Introducing.
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Fonograf Editions’ All-Vinyl Library
A New Record Label (for Writers) Debuts with Eileen Myles
A new record label (for writers) debuts with Eileen Myles.
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Goodnight, Sweet Prince: Remembering His Purple Reign
PRINCE “Parties weren’t meant to last,” but this one ended too soon. EIGHT YEARS AGO, I decided to start researching the life of Prince Rogers Nelson. He’d been a guiding light a decade before, when I’d moved away from the bro-ish small town where I grew up, and served as an inspiration while I explored […]
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A.M. O’Malley: Experimental in a Good Way
The Portland Author’s Expecting Something Else Defies Genre
The Portland author’s Expecting Something Else defies genre.
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Playwright Tanya Barfield Lets the Ghosts In
The Deceptive Simplicity of The Blue Door
Playwright Tanya Barfield lets the ghosts in.
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Diane Williams’ Rich Kid Lit
The Author’s Latest Is Gloriously Unconventional—But What’s with All the Product Placement?
The author’s latest is gloriously unconventional—but what’s with all the product placement?
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Portland Writer Dao Strom Gives the Past a Soundtrack
We Were Meant to Be a Gentle People Goes Above and Beyond Traditional Memoir
We Were Meant to Be a Gentle People goes above and beyond traditional memoir.
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From a Tent in the Wallowas, a Gallery of Decay
Justin Hocking on Book Arts, Memoir, and Global Warming
Justin Hocking on book arts, memoir, and global warming.
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Sardonic Women, Clueless Nice Guys™
And Other People Like You
A WOMAN loading a pooping goose into her boss’ BMW. An 18-year-old girl on a road trip with her older fiancé, his chain-smoking mother behind the wheel. A pregnant woman crouching in the bushes with a bottle of good wine in one hand and an industrial spotlight in the other, listening to strangers have sex. […]
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Teen Angst Turned Inward in See You in the Morning
Mairead Case’s Novel Blurs Lines Between YA and Literary Fiction
Mairead Case’s novel blurs lines between YA and literary fiction.
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Alicia Jo Rabins Goes to Divinity School
In Her Expansive New Book, Life Is a Messy Cartoon
In her expansive new book, life is a messy cartoon.