News Each week, WW writer John Minervini brings you the latest in book reviews, author Q&A's and Portland literary gossip. Click here to join the Tome Raider mailing list. Portland literati (right, clothed) enjoy fancy appetizers amid classical sculpture (left, nude) at the 2008 Oregon Book Awards, Nov. 10. Oregon Book Awards: 7:30pm @ the Portland Art Museum If you had asked on Saturday, ...   More

News Each week, WW writer John Minervini brings you the latest in book reviews, author Q&A's and Portland literary gossip. Click here to join the Tome Raider mailing list. When it comes to Wordstock (Nov. 6-9), bibliophiles are spoiled for choice. In fact, the geeky excitement of getting to meet all those novelists, poets, comic artists and other princes of paper is almost matched by the anxiety ...   More

News Literary Arts just announced finalists for the 23rd annual Oregon Book Awards. Read 'em and weep (or cheer)—your choice. Matt Love, the high-school English teacher and longtime activist for Oregon Coast preservation behind the massive Citadel of the Spirit: Oregon's Sesquicentennial Anthology (read WW's review, here) is getting a nod as the recipient of the The Stewart H. Holbrook Literary ...   More

News “I love being a public servant” Oregon Attorney General John Kroger drawled at Monday night's Oregon Book Awards ceremony, as he was picking up his award for Creative Nonfiction, “but what I really wanted to be growing up is a writer. It's a precious thing to have a book published.” Precious indeed, and, these days, a even more rare thing. Although Convictions, Kroger's ...   More