Finding Her Medium
Cai Emmons went from success to success on her way to becoming a novelist
Since she came to Oregon two decades ago, Eugene writer Cai Emmons has mostly been known as a novelist. So how did it happen that … Continue reading
Books: Page 8
Playing the Long Game: How to Keep Going No Matter What
Calling all writers and readers: Eugene-based author J.C. Geiger is presenting Playing the Long Game: How to Keep Going No Matter What at Tsunami Books … Continue reading
Winter Reading – Fiction
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. Penguin Press, $26. Poet and author Ocean Vuong’s mother died Nov. 2 at age 51, after a … Continue reading
Winter Reading 2019
Completing the Triangle Real Comedy Eugene In 1970 Children’s Book Round Up Eclectic Cookbooks Winter Reading Top Ten Lists Winter Reading – Fiction Winter Reading … Continue reading
Eugene in 1970
Mystery, academics, history and sci-fi set in Eugene
Blake College by Dan Armstrong. Mud City Press, $15. I arrived in Eugene from New York in 1988. On a warm September evening a few weeks … Continue reading
Winter Reading – Essays
Oregon’s Ancient Forests: a Hiking Guide by Chandra LeGue. Mountaineers Press, $26.95. Buy this book as a Christmas present for your favorite hiker, or that … Continue reading
Completing the Triangle
Nadav Kander, Jim Marshall and others bring the best photo books of 2019
Jim Marshall: Show Me the Picture by Jim Marshall, Amelia Davis; compiled by Karen Grigsby Bates, Michelle Margetts, Joel Selvin and Meg Shiffler. Chronicle Books, $55. … Continue reading
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
Winter Reading – Poetry
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
Winter Reading – Nonfiction
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