Cold Nights, Warm Pages
As the nights get colder, curl up with a good local book

Sure we hate the time change — leaving the office to dark rainy streets is depressing. But our spirits lift a little bit at the thought … Continue reading
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Sure we hate the time change — leaving the office to dark rainy streets is depressing. But our spirits lift a little bit at the thought … Continue reading
“I love science fiction, but I don’t write it,” says Mat Johnson, University of Oregon Philip H. Knight chair of the humanities and author of Invisible … Continue reading
Eugene Weekly writers are big readers, so periodically we put a little blurb in our Slant column about What We’re Reading. And, of course, Winter … Continue reading
Growing up in Fairfield, California, during the 1990s meant visiting the library on Fridays for Will O’Hearn. His earliest memory: repeatedly going with his mother, … Continue reading
The best books are the ones we don’t want to end. This is how I feel about Casey Parks’ recently published book Diary of a … Continue reading
This should be a powerful book launch and signing event. To start, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, one in three women and … Continue reading
When Eugene writer Cai Emmons talks about her writing process, her language is physical — even athletic. In conversation about her forthcoming novel, Unleashed, set … Continue reading
How do you make stories about the undead fresh? If you’re behind The Walking Dead, which began as a TV show in 2010 and has … Continue reading
Perhaps there’s something in the air. Maybe it’s all that pandemic isolation. Or just possibly Eugene really is a great city of the arts and … Continue reading
Music can remind us of both the minute moments and the benchmarks of our lives. In his new book, The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in … Continue reading