What Would Lynne Tillman Do? What would Lynne Tillman do? Last year, this question was mysteriously wheat-pasted on posters all over Lower Manhattan, giving a visual aid to many an art student’s obsession with author Lynne Tillman. Tillman flies under the radar. Her first book, Weird Fucks, can be found almost nowhere (Amazon has one […]
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This Week in Art: Lynne Tillman, Tribes, and Arch Literary Heroines
PICA Short stories that are actually good, profanity-laden conceptual art, brave new theater—here’s what’s happening this weekend in art: LYNNE TILLMAN: Tomorrow evening, Lynne Tillman, plus a small army of local and less local interdisciplinary artists, will celebrate New Herring Press’ reissue of her first book, Weird Fucks, at PICA. Why should you care about […]
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Just Kitten Around: A Trip to Portland’s First-Ever Cat Cafe!
MB The cats at Purringtons were going like adoptable hotcakes before our eyes! By the time you go, this cat will probably be one of them. Fact: Purringtons Cat Lounge, Portland’s first-ever CAT CAFE, was impossible to get into on its opening weekend last month. Believe me, I tried in vain to get a reservation, […]
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Dead Inside
Leviathan Is a Gorgeous, Cold-Hearted Beast
Leviathan is a gorgeous, cold-hearted beast.
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What Fuckery Is This?
The Cult of Lynne Tillman Comes to PICA
The cult of Lynne Tillman comes to PICA.
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Whatever, J-Franz: Here are the Organizations Actually Addressing Diversity in Publishing
VIDA: Women in Literary Arts From VIDA’s 2013 count of women in publishing. Jonathan Franzen is a smart guy, but he said something last week that was… misguided at best. Maybe you heard about it. In an interview that identified him as “arguably the best living American novelist”*, he was asked to comment on Jennifer […]
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Weather Systems of Grief in Kyle Boelte’s The Beautiful Unseen
Soft Skull Press Kyle Boelte writes about fog, and it will make you very, very, sad. Here’s what I know about Kyle Boelte: When Karen Green’s memoir Bough Down came out in 2013, he was one of only a handful of reviewers who wrote about it without identifying its subject, Green’s late husband, David Foster […]
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Oregon History Diorama Winner Announced—Plus, A Francine Sighting!
On Saturday, the winners of Kick Ass Oregon History’s annual Oregon history diorama contest were announced at a birthday party for Oregon, at Astoria’s Merry Time Bar. Kick Ass Oregon History’s got the blow-by-blow on their blog, but here’s the winner, this artful gem by Heather Arndt Anderson: It’s a depiction of the Roseburg Blast […]
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Breathing Life into Disaster Porn: Kyle Thompson’s Ghost Town
Kyle Thompson FANCY A SWIM? Welcome to Kyle Thompson’s Ghost Town. I am so sick of disaster porn I almost didn’t go to formerly Chicagoan, current Portlander Kyle Thompson‘s new photography show, Ghost Town, up now through February 28 at One Grand Gallery (1000 SE Burnside). Thompson’s photographs—self-portraits in flooded, decaying environments—are gorgeous, very weird, […]
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Rich Rubin’s Excellent Cottonwood in the Flood Lives On After Fertile Ground!
Rich Rubin’s Cottonwood in the Flood was one of the high points of this year’s Fertile Ground festival, and it wasn’t even a fully produced show, but a staged reading in the tiny Performance Works NW space in Foster-Powell. From our review: Cottonwood in the Flood is rooted in Oregon’s not-too-distant past, but puts faces […]
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A Cure for Process-Based Politics
How to End Poverty in 90 Minutes Is the Anti-City Council Meeting
How to End Poverty in 90 Minutes is the anti-city council meeting.
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Through a (Fogged) Lens, Darkly
Weather Patterns of Grief in Kyle Boelte’s The Beautiful Unseen
Weather patterns of grief in Kyle Boelte’s The Beautiful Unseen.