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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Hippie Memories
Hippie Chick is a memoir of LSD, the Saturday Market and, most of all, growth
Memoirs have always held a special space for me. While I’m not a fan of kitschy reality shows, there is just something mesmerizing about getting … Continue reading
StoneCutters Union
Reuniting for the first time in a few years, the StoneCutters Union will perform a reading of their fiction writings in “Bad Stories from Worse … Continue reading
Smith Family to Close Campus Bookstore
No employees are to lose jobs as the business consolidates downtown
Smith Family Bookstore has existed as a campus icon for 45 years, giving students the option of walking an extra block down 13th Avenue to … Continue reading
The Privilege of People’s Attention
A discussion with Eugene author J.C. Geiger
I met with J.C. Geiger at Wandering Goat Coffee Co. to have an “authentic exchange” about storytelling. It’s a phrase he used to describe having … Continue reading
Visual Magic
Local authors and photographers take us on a photo exploration of the Oregon Country Fair
Oregon Country Fair is a magical event for me, one that treats all visitors to their own unique experiences, stories and souvenirs. It’s safe to … Continue reading
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
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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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
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