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
Winter Reading 2018
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
Winter Reading – Poetry
Brown: Poems by Kevin Young. Penguin Random House, $27. Brown, a poetry collection by Kevin Young, is about a lot of things. It’s a meditation … Continue reading
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
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
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