Shaking the Tree It was surprising to see open seats at Saturday’s performance of Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play, Part III at Shaking the Tree. A rare production of one of the most ambitious works by a well-respected, living American playwright put on in an intimate venue and it’s not a full house? Admittedly, the third […]
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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Valeria Luiselli’s Eccentric Dental Records
Featuring Marilyn Monroe’s Chompers, The Story of My Teeth Is as Weird as It Sounds
Featuring Marilyn Monroe’s chompers, The Story of My Teeth is as weird as it sounds.
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Subverting the Unholy History of… Easter Plays?
Shaking the Tree and Profile Theatre Take on Sarah Ruhl’s Ambitious Passion Play
Shaking the Tree and Profile Theatre take on Sarah Ruhl’s ambitious Passion Play.
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In Profile Theater’s Passion Play, Subverting the Strange History of Morality Plays
David Kinder Profile Theater’s Passion Play, produced in collaboration with Shaking the Tree Playwright Sarah Ruhl began writing the first two parts of her theater cycle Passion Play after reading about the Bavarian village of Oberammergau in the early 1900s, where actors who played Christ and the Virgin Mary in their annual Passion play were […]
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The Art of Cruelty
The Celebrated (and Ignored) Stories of Joy Williams
The celebrated (and ignored) stories of Joy Williams.
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Get Off Your Lonely Bookworm Chair and Out to These Readings, Portland!
Olivia Storm Portland’s literary community boasts great local publishing houses (like Tin House and Hawthorne Books), an absolute wealth of micro-presses, and literary all-stars (like Ursula K. Le Guin, Chuck Palahniuk, Tom Spanbauer, Lidia Yuknavitch, and Matthew Dickman, to name just a few)—but finding out where to see readings in this town can be difficult. […]
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Everything Is New
Briana Marela Goes Overground
Washington’s Briana Marela takes a trip to Iceland.
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Literary Portland: A Brief Tour
Get Off Your Lonely Bookworm Chair and Out to These Readings!
Put down that book, get off your lonely chair, and head out to these readings!
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This is Everything
Welcome to the Disparate Worlds of Writer Casey Fuller
Welcome to the disparate worlds of writer Casey Fuller.
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Briana Marela Ventures Out from the Underground
Lucinda Roanoke After Briana Marela released her first studio album in 2012, she booked herself a tour of DIY spaces across the US. At the time, Marela was on the one-man-operation label Bicycle Records and had been playing house shows around Olympia for about four years. This tour was in support of an ambient electro-folk […]
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Gimme Fiction! (And Nonfiction.) (And Poetry.)
Tin House’s Outdoor Summer Readings Deliver It All
Tin House’s outdoor summer readings deliver it all.
