The Denver Post reported yesterday that Tig Notaro—who made comedy history on Thursday night in NYC when she responded to a cat-call by defiantly performing 20 minutes of her set shirtless—has been hospitalized and has had to cancel two stops on her “Boyish Girl, Interrupted Tour.” As of right now, her show in Portland Wednesday […]
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Talking About Bagels with Chimamanda Adichie: Enter Literary Arts’ Archive Project
Alfred A. Knopf Are your bookworm senses tingling? It’s probably because Literary Arts recently launched something called The Archive Project, making recorded lectures from a wide variety of writers like Wallace Stegner and Marjane Satrapi available for for free on their website. The Archive Project is ongoing, and Literary Arts plans to release new old […]
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Tonight: Lidia Yuknavitch Reads About Terrible Things (Better Than Anyone)
Hawthorne Books Lidia Yuknavitch writes about terrible things better than anyone. Her memoir The Chronology of Water came out in 2011 from Portand’s own Hawthorne Books—you probably know it from its censored cover, which is wrapped in paper like a girlie magazine on bookstore shelves—but it’s easily one of our best local examples of what […]
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We Can All Relax Now: Tig Notaro is Doing “Great,” Says Tig Notaro
If you’re a fan of Tig Notaro, you probably listened to Live, her show about her mother’s death and her own cancer diagnosis. So, I’ll lead with the good news: Tig is doing “great”! By her own admission! AND she’s coming to Portland on Wednesday, November 12. You can read a longer interview with her […]
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Subject/Object
Photography at Elizabeth Leach and the Portland Art Museum
Elizabeth Leach and the Portland Art Museum put portraiture front and center.
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Dispatches from the Nothing Beat: Charles D’Ambrosio on Alt-Weeklies and the Pacific Northwest
Charles D’Ambrosio’s readings never disappoint. This is an incredibly rare thing for a writer, and just one reason it’s very sad that D’Ambrosio has left Portland for the Midwest, where he’s been hired by the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Not so fast, though—D’Ambrosio still has a new book out from Portland’s/New York’s Tin House Books, an […]
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Help Right a (Cinematic) Wrong: Go See Je t’aime je t’aime Tonight!
I (voluntarily) watched a truly odd movie this week (THE THINGS WE DO FOR FILM SHORTS), but before I say anything else about it, you should probably just watch this trailer for it: Here‘s what I ended up writing about it: A recent study published in the journal Science found that many adult humans prefer […]
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Win Tickets to See Some of Portland’s Funniest Ladies
Pat Moran Susan Rice: A most hilarious person, with the most adorable pair of Keens. Did you miss All Jane No Dick, and now find yourself wracked with regret? Did you go, and see Susan Rice, Amy Miller, and Joann Schinderle tell jokes that made laughter-tears stream down your cheeks? Well, we’re giving away two […]
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Sensation Seekers
Litsa Dremousis on the Cost of a Climbing-Obsessed Culture
Future Tense’s new ebook imprint launches with Litsa Dremousis’ Altitude Sickness.
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Action/Adventure Theatre’s Mars One Gets Even More Real Tomorrow
Action/Adventure Theatre Here’s a fact I’m not proud of: I have watched so much reality TV. Back when my cable was paid for by institutional capital, Bravo would broadcast marathons of America’s Next Top Model, and I would promise myself I would just watch one episode. Spoiler alert: that never happened, and I knew it […]
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Coming to TV: Karen Russell’s Ghost Boyfriends and Girls Raised by Wolves
Knopf Doubleday KAREN RUSSELL: Clean prose, and children raised by werewolves. Well, this is weird. Karen Russell’s Floridian brand of magical realism may be coming to a teevee near you! Weird, because the book being adapted is Russell’s St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised By Wolves, which is a collection of unrelated short stories about […]