Harold Lloyd’s iconic Safety Last, one of several works from 1923 due to enter the public domain in 2019. Wikimedia Commons At the start of 2019, the United States public domain—which has been frozen in time like Walt Disney’s brain—will begin to include new works again. And by “new,” I mean works first published in […]
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📖🔥 Hot Book Takes for 2018: Dystopias, Outer Space, and Murder All Sound Pretty On-Brand
Our book picks for 2018 are big on murder, dystopia, queers, and outer space and I would expect nothing less.
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Book Review: User Not Found, Felicity Fenton’s New Chapbook, Dives into Social Media Addiction
“As a child plotting my future adulthood, I couldn’t imagine becoming someone who ogled the glow of screens and sweat-clenched the square edges of devices,” writes Felicity Fenton in her new chapbook, User Not Found. “Not once did I believe I would partake in an incessant perusal of digital walls, skimming notes and pictures from […]
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Portland Literary Magazine Tin House Is Publishing Its Final Issue in 2019
In June 2019, Portland-based literary magazine Tin House will publish its 20th anniversary issue. It will also be Tin House‘s final issue, as the publisher is ending the magazine’s print run and focusing on its book division and its widely respected annual writers workshop. Although the print publication is ending, Tin House says they will […]
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A New Book Claims to Have Pinpointed the Most Effective Cure for Hangovers
Penguin Random House Humankind has outlived the plague, devised countless written and spoken languages, and flown to the moon, but there’s one thing humans still haven’t figured out: a hangover cure that actually works. Writer Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall spent years researching (that’s a fancy way of saying “drinking”) for his new book, Hungover: The Morning After […]
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Lost Portland Uncovers Not Only Dead Buildings but the History of Portland’s Arsonist Firefighter
Courtesy of The History Press If you’re walking through inner Portland, there’s a good chance whatever buildings you’re looking at sit on the sites of past constructions. Since at least the 1890s, flames or wrecking balls have claimed cathedrals, mansions, office buildings, and family homes, swept aside by the needs of the city or the […]
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Rejoice: Michelle Obama is Coming to Portland!
Rejoice and behold, Portland! I bring you good tidings of great joy: MICHELLE OBAMA IS COMING TO PORTLAND! As you know, the former first lady is currently on her book tour to promote her autobiography Becoming, and Michelle has just added a Portland stop to her itinerary. She’ll be appearing at the Moda Center on […]
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In the New Chapbook from Future Tense, Felicity Fenton Dives into Social Media Addiction
Felicity Fenton’s new chapbook from Future Tense playfully interrogates social media addiction.
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Japanese Bookstore Chain Kinokuniya Announces Downtown Store in Former Guild Theatre
Kinokuniya As first reported by the Willamette Week in June, a Japanese book and stationery story is moving into downtown’s Guild Theatre space on Director Park. Today, Kinokuniya Bookstores of America made the announcement official with a press release that includes some of the details of the new store, which will open in spring 2019. […]
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We Have Gone Entirely Too Long Without The Witches Scaring the Shit Out of Our Children
I was scared of everything as a kid (Harry from Harry and the Hendersons? Check! Ghost Librarian from Ghostbusters? Check! E.T.? GET THAT FUCKING THING AWAY FROM ME), but one of the more potent entries on the “Why Erik can’t sleep tonight” list was Roald Dahl’s The Witches, a book that suggested seemingly nice old […]
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The Updated Edition of Beyond Buds Is Beyond Badass
THCA ISOLATE PHOTO BY GUILD EXTRACTS There’s no shortage of books about cannabis, and the groaning, overstuffed top shelf of my ancient IKEA bookcase speaks to that in… volumes. Grow guides, histories of cannabis, reference sources, cookbooks, cannabis spa guides, how-to-roll-a-joint handbooks—when the Great Cascadia Earthquake hits, I will likely die crushed by a quarter […]
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AMC’s The Little Drummer Girl Is Complicated, and So Are My Feelings About It
Jonathan Olley/AMC/Ink Factory I still can’t make up my mind about The Little Drummer Girl. In a few ways, I’m disappointed by it. But in others, I’m unsettled and intrigued—I can’t stop thinking about it, and this is a much better place to end up than the vast, empty chasms of pleasant indifference. I’m fascinated […]