Winter Reading 2019
Completing the Triangle Real Comedy Eugene In 1970 Children’s Book Round Up Eclectic Cookbooks Winter Reading Top Ten Lists Winter Reading – Fiction Winter Reading … Continue reading
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A Seattle singer-songwriter faces the music three decades after Cobain
The Seattle music scene of the ’90s that gave rise to a slew of now legendary bands — Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam, to name … Continue reading
Essential Reading
Books can guide us through a time of reckoning and awakening
In 2003, at the age of 92, revolutionary philosopher and activist Grace Lee Boggs delivered an impassioned speech titled “These are the times to grow … Continue reading
Show, Don’t Read
Oregon names a new poet laureate. Expect to be energized.
Oregon has a new official poet laureate. On May 4, Anis Mojgani became the 10th poet to enjoy that slightly archaic-sounding title — and the … Continue reading
Trauma and Transformation
Eugene author releases second novel while under quarantine
When Eugene writer Marjorie Celona was working on their (Celona prefers they/them pronouns) first best-selling novel, 2012’s Y, they used money earned from teaching to … Continue reading
Libraries Are (Virtually) Here for You in COVID-19
Here's a round up of the library resources you can access while socially distant
With schools operating virtually, resources may seem scarce but the libraries in our community are helping actively. Here is a list of services being offered … Continue reading
Finding Her Medium
Cai Emmons went from success to success on her way to becoming a novelist
Since she came to Oregon two decades ago, Eugene writer Cai Emmons has mostly been known as a novelist. So how did it happen that … Continue reading
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
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Playing the Long Game: How to Keep Going No Matter What
Calling all writers and readers: Eugene-based author J.C. Geiger is presenting Playing the Long Game: How to Keep Going No Matter What at Tsunami Books … Continue reading
Winter Reading – Fiction
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. Penguin Press, $26. Poet and author Ocean Vuong’s mother died Nov. 2 at age 51, after a … Continue reading
Eugene in 1970
Mystery, academics, history and sci-fi set in Eugene
By Jim Earl Blake College by Dan Armstrong. Mud City Press, $15. I arrived in Eugene from New York in 1988. On a warm September evening … Continue reading
Winter Reading – Essays
Oregon’s Ancient Forests: a Hiking Guide by Chandra LeGue. Mountaineers Press, $26.95. Buy this book as a Christmas present for your favorite hiker, or that … Continue reading
Completing the Triangle
Nadav Kander, Jim Marshall and others bring the best photo books of 2019
Jim Marshall: Show Me the Picture by Jim Marshall, Amelia Davis; compiled by Karen Grigsby Bates, Michelle Margetts, Joel Selvin and Meg Shiffler. Chronicle Books, $55. … Continue reading
Winter Reading Top Ten Lists
Smith Family Bookstore’s Holiday Book Recommendations 525 Willamette Street. 541-343-4717. SmithFamilyBookstore.com The Overstory by Richard Powers. W.W. Norton & Co., $18.95 Little Weirds by Jenny … Continue reading