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
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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
Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems by Campbell McGrath. Ecco, $24.99. Campbell McGrath might be our best living poet. Combining the polymorphous acceptance of … Continue reading
Anthony Bourdain: The Last Interview and Other Conversations Melville House Publishing, $16.95. I was mad when I picked up the new book Anthony Bourdain: The … Continue reading
By Elisha Young and Atlas Our children’s book reviews may have received the most extensive scrutiny of any category. This quartet of books from Quarto Publishing … Continue reading
Random Female Syndromes The Syndrome Mag. $12.99. Life is Funny Comedy Workout Publishing. $13.95. It is rare that people can become professional comedians, and yet … Continue reading
In an era when many of us turn to our favorite foodie website or app, it is fair to ask if cookbooks have become obsolete? … Continue reading
A Girl’s Guide to the Wild by Ruby McConnell. Sasquatch Books, $16.99. A Girls’ Guide to the Wild is a practical, yet whimsical handbook put … Continue reading
Little Weirds by Jenny Slate. Little Brown and Company, $27. In her first memoir, actress and comedian Jenny Slate fosters a garden of strange and … Continue reading
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
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