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Five Books to Read When You’re Sick of Streaming

Done watching “High Fidelity”? May we recommend reading…”High Fidelity”?

Five Awesome Cookbooks to Mine for Quarantine Cooking

If you were ever going to learn how to make Sagaponack corn pudding, now’s the time.

Browsing for Comics Is No Longer an Option—but at One Portland Comics Shop, the Owner Does the Shopping for You

With the realization she might have to close her store due to the COVID-19 pandemic, she came up with an alternative business model that put added emphasis on guiding consumers toward the product they want: a personalized shopping experience.

Portland Is the Best Place in the Country to Be a Witch

Even outside of spooky season, Portland is a place of magic—a town where energy healers and herbalists are taken seriously, where you can grab cocktails at a tarot-themed bar on North Mississippi, and where, if you want to turn witchiness into a way of life, there are plenty of resources at your disposal.

Publisher of Controversial Novel “American Dirt” Cancels Powell’s Appearance From Author Jeanine Cummins, Citing Safety Concerns

Powell’s Books today announced that a Jan. 31 event with author Jeanine Cummins has been canceled by the publisher, Flatiron Books.

Shea Serrano’s Book “Movies (And Other Things)” Answers More Than Two Dozen Very Important Film Questions. We Wanted to Know More.

In his new book, Movies (And Other Things) (Twelve, 256 pages, $25), the former schoolteacher-turned-bestselling author pushes aside the accepted film canon and instead drills down into his personal cinematic obsessions: romcoms and gangster flicks; Diane Keaton in Something’s Gotta Give and the Rock in everything; big, populist blockbusters; and his beloved Fast & Furious franchise.

The Best Books Portland Authors Read In 2019

Karen Russell, Willy Vlautin and other local literary luminaries on their favorite reads of the year.

Portland Photographer Peter Beste’s New Book Captures the Fashion and Fandom of the World’s Most Devoted Metalheads

The battle jacket or vest, also known as a “kutte” or “kutten,” the German word for a monk’s robe, is basically the metalhead uniform. In his new book, Defenders of the Faith, Portland photographer Peter Beste documents the fanaticism and pride that comes in donning these literal badges of honor.

Simon Tam’s Memoir Closes the Book on His Band the Slants’ Long Legal Fight—and Their Career

The long-running, Portland-born “Chinatown dance rock” band has been together since 2006, but for most of the past decade, they’ve been best known for their legal fight against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which did not appreciate or understand the irony and power of an Asian American band deciding to reclaim a racial slur.

Comedian and Disability Rights Advocate Nina G On Her New Memoir, “South Park” and Fighting Comedy with Comedy

People with disabilities don’t want to be coddled or turned into inspiration porn, says comic Nina G, author of “Stutterer Interrupted: The Comedian Who Almost Didn’t Happen”—they want to be treated with respect, and allowed to be as irreverent and messy as able-bodied and “fluent” people are allowed to be.

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