EBERHARDT PRESS When Judith Arcana first approached short story author and activist Grace Paley about writing her biography, Paley said no. “She said she didn’t think there should be a book just about her” Arcana writes, “that her life was no big deal, that she didn’t want to be lionized.” Prepared for this response, Arcana […]
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Judith Arcana’s Biography of Activist Grace Paley Sees Her Whole Life
At Paley’s request, Arcana didn’t shy away from writing a critical portrait.
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Republic of Lies Book Review: Anna Merlan Explores Our Nation’s Obsession With Conspiracies
Our government is sneaky!
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Wanderers Book Review: All Fascists in Chuck Wendig’s Apocalyptic Future Are Coincidental
Somebody get these sleepwalkers some coffee!
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Meet Portland’s New Comics Festival: Portland Indie Con
Sloane Leong’s Prism Stalker After the absorption of the Stumptown Comics Fest into the larger Rose City Comic Con in 2013, and the fizzling out of the small press comics show Linework after 2016, Portland’s comics scene found itself curiously lacking a mid-sized comics fest. “We identified a hole,” says Portland Indie Con founder David […]
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Pulver Maar Review: New Bizarre Poems from Zachary Schomburg
ZACHARY SCHOMBURG Early in Pulver Maar, Zachary Schomburg tells the story of Wanda, who found a disembodied arm at the top of a mountain and “took out an ad in the newspaper./Whose arm? read the ad above a photograph/Wanda took of the arm. She wrote a song about it/on the piano, and sang the song […]
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Comics Store Books with Pictures Has Opened Its New Location
Tippy says: Now Open!! #lcs #ncbd #NewComicBookDay @unbeatablesg pic.twitter.com/TAvvuIUq2L — BookswithPictures📚 (@bookswpictures) June 26, 2019 Books with Pictures, the comics store with a mission of carrying all-inclusive fare, has opened the doors of its new location at 1401 SE Division, the former home of Longfellow’s Books. The building is a distinctive landmark along Southeast Division, […]
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Pulver Maar Review: New Bizarre Poems from Zachary Schomburg
Zachary Schomburg’s new poetry book is like a “B-sides and rarities” collection of his latest work.
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Meet Portland’s New Comics Festival: Portland Indie Con
Welcome to the comics scene, Portland Indie Con – Hope you survive the experience!
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This Storm Review: Only a Third of James Ellroy’s New Novel Is Actually about Nazis
(Book Cover) PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE While promoting his new stand-up special, comedian Anthony Jeselnik explained that the only reason he’s able to get away with his particular brand of dark, defiantly non-PC humor in our politically-charged era is because he’s been doing it for so long that he’s been grandfathered in. That feels like a […]
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How Elizabeth Gilbert Survived the Death of a Woman She Loved
<img src="https://media1.fdncms.com/portmerc/imager/u/original/26529492/1558643613-ouijaboard_mag.jpg" alt="“I can’t live without her,” the author of Eat, Pray, Love says. “So I don’t.”” title=”“I can’t live without her,” the author of Eat, Pray, Love says. “So I don’t.””> “I can’t live without her,” the author of Eat, Pray, Love says. “So I don’t.” RACHELLE ABELLAR The day before we talked on […]
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Soft Science Review: Turing Tests, Sex Robots, and the Experience of a Queer, Asian American Woman
ALICE JAMES BOOKS / AUTHOR PHOTO BY QURISSY LOPEZ Franny Choi read her free-form, long breath of a poem “Ode to Epinephrine” in Portland at AWP 2019. Out of all the readings I attended, her sketches of the heartbeat-to-heartbeat moments she felt during an allergic reaction and the ensuing adrenaline-assisted rush really stuck. The poem’s […]