COVER ART BY LUKAS KETNER On December 28, 1978, United Airlines Flight 173 ran out of fuel over Portland and crashed. The massive airliner set down at East Burnside and 157th and plowed through the streets of what is now East Portland, shredding itself apart as it skidded over concrete. Ten people died, more were […]
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New Graphic Novels: The McElroy Brothers’ The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins, Sanpaku and Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles
Clockwise from upper left: Sanpaku, Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles, The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins is a comic adaptation of a storytelling podcast in which the McElroy brothers (Griffin, Justin, and Travis) play Dungeons & Dragons with their dad, Clint. And it debuted at the […]
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New Graphic Novels: The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins, Sanpaku and Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles
Check Out My Very Good Taste in Comics
Our new graphic novel recommendations are The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins, Sanpaku and Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles.
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Julie Whipple’s Crash Course Will Make You Never Want to Fly Again
The 1978 Portland Crash Changed Commercial Flight as We Knew It
Julie Whipple’s Crash Course explores the 1978 Portland plane crash that claimed the lives of 10 and changed commercial flight as we knew it.
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Alice Bolin’s Dead Girls Explores Why Everyone in the Northwest Is so Obsessed with Serial Killers
Alice Bolin’s debut collection of essays, Dead Girls, illuminates a mystery that has plagued me ever since I moved to the Pacific Northwest: Why is everyone out here so obsessed with serial killers? Bolin approaches the question with a suite of four essays that lay out the mechanics of what she calls the “dead girl” […]
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The Secret Token Exposes the Mythology of the Roanoke Colony
In 1587, 115 colonists established England’s first small colony of the Americas on Roanoke—a swampy, coastal island that would eventually be considered part of North Carolina. The governor of the colony, John White, returned to England shortly after. Three years later he returned to find the colony gone. There was nothing: no corpses, no burnt […]
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The Secret Token Exposes the Mythology of the Roanoke Colony
Journalist Author Andrew Lawler Contextualizes One of America’s Favorite Mysteries
Andrew Lawler outlines the history, disappearance, and the eventual mythologizing of the Roanoke colony in his new book The Secret Token.
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Author Interview: Paul Collins’ Blood and Ivy Investigates a Scandalous Harvard Murder
Norton Though he keeps a low profile, Paul Collins is easily one of Portland’s most accomplished and prolific writers. He’s been a regular contributor to publications like the Believer, New Scientist, and the New Yorker. He was NPR’s “literary detective” for roughly a decade (2003-2013). Collins even has his own McSweeney’s publishing imprint (the Collins […]
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Author Q&A with Portland Literary Detective Paul Collins
His Tenth Book Blood and Ivy Investigates a Scandalous Harvard Murder
Author Q&A with Portland’s literary detective Paul Collins on his new book Blood and Ivy.
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Claire L. Evans’ Broad Band Reveals Women’s Contributions to Tech
JACLYN CAMPANARO The face of the tech industry has, like most industries, tended to be a male one, from scruffy geeks in garages to smug billionaires firing luxury cars into space. But, as is the case with (checks notes) every commercial enterprise ever, the shadows of our connected age hide countless women who are rarely […]
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Author Claire L. Evans’ Broad Band Reveals Women’s Contributions to Tech
A Hidden History of Computing, from the 1800s to the 1990s
A hidden history of computing, from the 1800s to the 1990s.
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Genevieve Hudson’s Fierce Debut Finds a Fitting Home at Future Tense Books
(FUTURE TENSE BOOKS) It makes perfect sense that Genevieve Hudson’s fierce collection of short stories, Pretend We Live Here, found a home at Future Tense Books. Previous releases from the Portland small press (like Wish You Were Me by Myriam Gurba and Excavation by Wendy C. Ortiz) indicate that editor and publisher Kevin Sampsell takes […]