Books Borderline (St. Martin's Press, 272 pages, $24), the latest from Portland author Mark Schorr, is filled with more hometown trivia and "I know that place!" moments than a POVA brochure. Unfortunately, ... More
Borderline
Mark Schorr gives Portland the suspense thriller it never knew it wanted.
Books Borderline (St. Martin's Press, 272 pages, $24), the latest from Portland author Mark Schorr, is filled with more hometown trivia and "I know that place!" moments than a POVA brochure. Unfortunately, ... More
Thunderstruck
Popular historian Erik Larson can't make lightning strike twice.
Books Seattle author Erik Larson's latest nonfiction potboiler, Thunderstruck (Crown, 463 pages, $25.95), tries to duplicate the winning formula of his New York Times bestseller The Devil in the White City. ... More
Long Journey: Contemporary Northwest Poets
Is poetry alive in the Pacific Northwest? Well...it's complicated.
Books David Biespiel challenges provincialism—namely, that this corner of the country is too isolated from the centers of literary life to produce art that matters. Editor of the literary magazine Poe ... More
News Junkie
Books Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling was sentenced to 24 years in the slammer last week for his part in the scandal that brought down the energy giant and cost many Americans their life savings. Skilling sa ... More
Stumptown Comics Fest
A fest that goes beyond the usual superhero-in-tights fare.
Books You wouldn't go so far as to call Keith Knight unassuming, but he certainly is the sort of person who leaves grandmothers saying, "He's such a fine young man." And at first glance, the lanky Knight ha ... More
Harsh Words
Author Stephen Elliott likes to be hurt. Really.
Books Author Stephen Elliott is a bottom, and he's not ashamed to talk about it. The San Francisco-based writer splashed onto the literary scene two years ago with Happy Baby, his confessional novel about j ... More
Literary Threesome
The Mystery Guest, Laughter in the Dark, The Children's Hospital
Books The Mystery Guest, by Grégoire Bouillier (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $18, 128 pages): Bad breakups, at best, are invitations to suicide—the same fixative impulses that drove one to unspeaka ... More
Fleeing Fundamentalism
A desperate housewife lashes out at conservative Christianity.
Books Readers hungry for a rousing indictment of America's religious right on the eve of the fall elections won't find it in Carlene Cross' new memoir, Fleeing Fundamentalism: A Minister's Wife Examines Fai ... More
The Littlest Hitler
Seattle author takes a hilarious bite outta Left Coast suburbia.
Books Ryan Boudinot's The Littlest Hitler (Counterpoint Press, $22, 215 pages) tackles America's rampant banalities—the sanctity of selling, political correctness, yuppie consumerism, and so on. With ... More
Catch A Wave
Peter Ames Carlin captures the Beach Boys' Smile and pain.
Books Every literate rocker knows that the Beach Boys' sunny veneer masked a melanoma of family dysfunction metastasizing beneath the skin, dooming the boy genius behind it all. Most writing on them falls i ... More
Top Articles from Books
Jonathan Bloom American Wasteland
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.
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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