Violation finds the art in artlessness in a collection of essays.
Hawthorne Books
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Literary Portland: A Brief Tour
Get Off Your Lonely Bookworm Chair and Out to These Readings!
Put down that book, get off your lonely chair, and head out to these readings!
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Keep It Simple, Stupid
Brevity Is Everything for David Shields and Elizabeth Cooperman
Brevity is everything for David Shields and Elizabeth Cooperman in their anthology.
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Fact and Fiction
Tom Spanbauer Unpacks His Bags
TOM SPANBAUER’S NEW BOOK I Loved You More isn’t a memoir. It reads like a memoir: first person, introspective, reminiscent. It looks like one: It’s published by Hawthorne Books, a local house that’s built a reputation in part on the strength of personal narratives like Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water, Jay Ponteri’s Wedlocked, and […]
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Flowers in the Outback
Australian Despair in The Mary Smokes Boys
The Mary Smokes Boys is a tense look at a small Australian town.
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Reading Local
Tall Bikes, Political Literature, and a Masturbation Soundtrack
From smarty pants political literature to a tall-bike riding midget, it’s a big week for local releases.