Winter Reading
fiction All Coyote’s Children by Bette Lynch Husted. Oregon State University Press, $18.95. (Oregon author) The road less traveled is one of forgiveness and acceptance. … Continue reading
Books
What Transpires Now: Transgender Histories & Futures
The LaSells Stewart Center • 5:00 pm • Tickets→
“What Transpires Now: Transgender Histories & Futures” Lecture by Susan Stryker In this talk drawn from her work in progress, What Transpires Now, Susan Stryker … Continue reading
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Larger than Life
A roundup of the year's best photography books
Sin & Salvation in Baptist Town by Matt Eich. Sturm & Drang, $59. Sin & Salvation takes place in Greenwood, Mississippi in a neighborhood called … Continue reading
Alt Histories
If hippos took over the South
I knew I liked Sarah Gailey when we met in a bar in Montana and they bought me a shot of whiskey before I even had … Continue reading
Winter Reading Top Ten Lists
Black Sun Books Staff Picks 2467 Hilyard Street, 541-484-3777 Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $30. The Library Book by Susan Orlean, Simon & Schuster, … Continue reading
Winter Reading – Poetry
Brown: Poems by Kevin Young. Penguin Random House, $27. Brown, a poetry collection by Kevin Young, is about a lot of things. It’s a meditation … Continue reading
Winter Reading – Teens
Sleeping in My Jeans by Connie King Leonard. Ooligan Press, $16. Portland-based Ooligan Press is a sure thing when it comes to books that capture … Continue reading
Winter Reading – Short Stories
Back Talk by Danielle Lazarin. Penguin Books, $16. Danielle Lazarin’s Back Talk is the author’s debut — a collection of slice-of-life short stories about girls … Continue reading
State of Emergency
Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of America: The Farewell Tour, comes to Eugene
Chris Hedges’ latest book, America: The Farewell Tour, offers the reader an unsentimental and brilliant diagnosis of our ongoing national malaise, and it goes off … Continue reading
Greg Johnson: “Bluer”
The Jazz Station • 7:30 pm • Tickets→
YouTube: “Dream Cycle” Greg’s Website Commonly known for his saxophone work on Saint Motel’s “My Type,” Greg Johnson‘s colorful, melodic approach to music presents his … Continue reading
Great Books
Gutenberg College discusses the works of Western Civilization
Once upon a time in the way back when, the role of higher education was not to prepare you for the treadmill by clipping you … Continue reading
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Winter Reading – Kids
The Nap Rap by Joan Gold Cypress and illustrated by Lola Buckwald. Queen Scarlett, $24.95. (Oregon author) I never thought I would be saying this, … Continue reading
Winter Reading – Nonfiction
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara. Harper Collins Publishers, $27.99. Around Halloween time, … Continue reading
Winter Reading – Essays
Nobody Cares by Anne T. Donahue. ECW Press, $15.99. Being a millennial American woman is hard. OK, maybe not hard hard, in the way that … Continue reading
Staring Down the Barrel
Local writer Pat Newson releases An Object in Motion, a book of poetry centered on gun violence
When I first met the writer Pat Newson, he was a bent wild man, part satanic elf and part hobbled saint, and his whole being … Continue reading
A Thousand Words
A roundup of the best photography books of the year
La Calle : Photographs from Mexico by Alex Webb. Aperture, $60. La Calle get its name from the Octavio Paz poem, which is pure genius … Continue reading
Troll Hunter
Local author publishes otherworldly teen mystery series
By day, he’s a teacher at Thurston High School in Springfield — a “giant nerd” in his own words. But after work, Will Ritter inhabits … Continue reading