Books According to Shalom Auslander, God is a four-letter word. Or, to be more exact, he’s taken to referring to the holiest of holies as “you fucking fuck.” (OK, that’s 14 letters.) ... More
Foreskin’s Lament
Believing in God can be such a bitch sometimes.
Books According to Shalom Auslander, God is a four-letter word. Or, to be more exact, he’s taken to referring to the holiest of holies as “you fucking fuck.” (OK, that’s 14 letters.) ... More
Literary Twosome
Books Amy Bloom, Away (Random House, 256 pages, $23.95)Although Away will be touted as a novel of self-invention set in the 1920s, author Bloom could give the romance-paperback hacks a run for their money ... More
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
Doctors are people, too. Taxidermy and all.
Books The summer before I left home for college, I made extra money babysitting for my gynecologist. I spent most of my time trying to avoid eye contact with the taxidermic specimens populating the main flo ... More
Powers
Making kids’ books grow up a little.
Books Encomium after encomium has been heaped on the shoulders of J.K. Rowling for somehow single-handedly (or tag-teamed with Oprah) making America love books, as if those hordes of tykes and soccer moms w ... More
Heartsick
Hannibal Lecter visits Sauvie Island, dressed in drag.
Books So, you’ve just moved to Portland, and you’re looking for the one book that can really show you what our fair city is all about. You could play tourist and pick up a Fodor’s , or may ... More
Ovenman
The pipe dreams of a pizza guy.
Books Waking up from yet another all-nighter of boozing and public disruption, professional pizza-boy When Thinfinger finds a disorderly-conduct court summons tangled in his chest hair and a Post-it note st ... More
Fighting For Paradise
The sordid military past of the wimpiest city in America.
Books The Pacific Northwest—unlike, say, Lebanon—is not particularly known for its brushes with the world’s great armies. Thus, you might be tempted at first blush to think of local author ... More
Eeeee Eee Eeee
The way of Tao Lin.
Books You could be forgiven for thinking that Tao Lin was desperate to be liked. You could be fooled by his obsessive management of his literary blog (reader-of-depressing-books.blogspot.com), his daily ema ... More
ANXIOUS PLEASURES
Novelist Lance Olsen casts an eye on Kafka's insect.
Books An enduring literary rumor has it that Gregor Samsa—the young cloth-salesman who wakes up to find himself possessed of vaguely "numerous" legs and a hard-plated back—is, specifically, a co ... More
Thirteen
The creator of Takeshi Kovacs returns with something old, something noir.
Books Richard K. Morgan explores the oldest theme in science fiction in his new novel, Thirteen (Del Rey, 544 pages, $24.95). Science fiction writers have been tinkering with the idea of the scientifically ... More
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That’s no lady; that’s Darcelle. Lonely Christopher The Mechanics Of Homosexual Intercourse
Love, hate and other fundamental procedures. Larry Colton No Ordinary Joes
A Goat Brother restores humanity to the Greatest Generation. Robert Whitaker Anatomy Of An Epidemic
Yes, Tom Cruise is a loon, but he may be right about psychiatry. Tao Lin Richard Yates
The NYC lit instigator on dollars and cents. Jill Lepore The Whites Of Their Eyes
If you can’t laugh at your past, what can you laugh at? Patrick deWitt Ablutions
A local author writes what he knows—booze. Smallpressapalooza, Thursday, March 20
Micropresses are the new milkshake. Frank Meeink Autobiography Of A Recovering Skinhead
How to build a skinhead; how to save one.
Fine foodstuff is a terrible thing to waste. Walter Cole Just Call Me Darcelle
That’s no lady; that’s Darcelle. Lonely Christopher The Mechanics Of Homosexual Intercourse
Love, hate and other fundamental procedures. Larry Colton No Ordinary Joes
A Goat Brother restores humanity to the Greatest Generation. Robert Whitaker Anatomy Of An Epidemic
Yes, Tom Cruise is a loon, but he may be right about psychiatry. Tao Lin Richard Yates
The NYC lit instigator on dollars and cents. Jill Lepore The Whites Of Their Eyes
If you can’t laugh at your past, what can you laugh at? Patrick deWitt Ablutions
A local author writes what he knows—booze. Smallpressapalooza, Thursday, March 20
Micropresses are the new milkshake. Frank Meeink Autobiography Of A Recovering Skinhead
How to build a skinhead; how to save one.
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