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
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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
Winter Reading – Nonfiction
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara. Harper Collins Publishers, $27.99. Around Halloween time, … Continue reading
Winter Reading – Essays
Nobody Cares by Anne T. Donahue. ECW Press, $15.99. Being a millennial American woman is hard. OK, maybe not hard hard, in the way that … Continue reading
Staring Down the Barrel
Local writer Pat Newson releases An Object in Motion, a book of poetry centered on gun violence
When I first met the writer Pat Newson, he was a bent wild man, part satanic elf and part hobbled saint, and his whole being … 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
A Thousand Words
A roundup of the best photography books of the year
La Calle : Photographs from Mexico by Alex Webb. Aperture, $60. La Calle get its name from the Octavio Paz poem, which is pure genius … Continue reading
Troll Hunter
Local author publishes otherworldly teen mystery series
By day, he’s a teacher at Thurston High School in Springfield — a “giant nerd” in his own words. But after work, Will Ritter inhabits … Continue reading
One Hell of a Road Trip
A high schooler’s life takes a serious detour in Eugene author J.C. Geiger’s Wildman
The premise is strictly film noir: Returning from a road trip to Seattle, a high school valedictorian from Oregon — an all-American kid, first-chair trumpet … Continue reading