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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A Potent Whiskey
Whiskey When We’re Dry takes on the Old West in a new way
It’s not just 17-year-old Jessilyn Harney’s narrative voice that blurs gender lines, it’s author John Larison’s entire evocative portrayal of the young woman who poses … Continue reading
It Takes a Library
Eugene writer Melissa Hart’s Better With Books offers literary guidance for kids and parents
As a parent, I question myself daily. There is no instruction manual. I find myself posing questions to my “village” of more-experienced parents quite often. … Continue reading
Weeding Out Reefer Madness
EW talks with the author of Cannabis: The Illegalization of Weed in America about the racist history of marijuana laws
In his graphic novel Cannabis: The Illegalization of Weed in America, the New York Times-bestselling author Box Brown tells the unfamiliar, violent and racist history … Continue reading
A Smoke-Filled Climate Review
Book review brings personal experience together the climate reading
“On the afternoon the boys and I arrived the town and the Rogue Valley where it sits were surrounded by nine separate wildfires. The next … Continue reading
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
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
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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 2018
In this week’s episode of Eugene Weekly’s What’s Happening podcast, Eugene Weekly staffers discuss some of their favorite reads from this year — from novels and nonfiction to short stories and children’s books.
The royalty free music we used in this podcast was:
– Stellas Changes by Stephan Siebert
– In Between 26 by Stephan Siebert
– Leo by Stephan Siebert
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
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