Lotte Streisinger
Artist, arts supporter and advocate for peace
Lotte Streisinger was a fierce advocate, a force for the arts, for the crafts and for this community for more than half a century. She died … Continue reading
Anita Johnson
Anita Johnson is a contributing editor and one of the owners of Eugene Weekly.
Author: Anita Johnson
Remembering Fred Taylor
Fierce defender of journalists and their craft
Fred Taylor finished Washington High School and left his native Portland in 1946 to major in journalism at the University of Oregon. He worked in the news bureau and wrote for the Oregon Daily Emerald, rising to be co-sports editor. But the dean of the journalism school told him that he would never make it in the field of journalism. He should get out of it. Continue reading
Reckoning with the Past
History professor Christian Appy looks at how the Vietnam War shaped us in 2015’s
When we heard Christian Appy talk about his new book at a Morse Center event on the UO campus last month, we knew American Reckoning was a must read for more understanding of the “Vietnam War and Our National Identity,” as he subtitles it. Appy is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the author of two previous books on the Vietnam War. Continue reading
Turn Back Time
Local author takes on aging
Anybody out there in this youth-obsessed USA who wants to read yet another word about aging? Or, if we really are youth-obsessed, maybe we want to learn everything we can to slow the march away from youngness? That was Lauren Kessler’s gamble when she wrote Counterclockwise: One Midlife Woman’s Quest to Turn Back the Hands of Time (Rodale, 256 pages. $24.99). At the same time her seventh book of narrative nonfiction hit the market in the spring, Parade magazine, that popular panderer, featured a “Special Report on the Youth Hormone.” Yet another! Continue reading