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Taking Back Control: A Conversation with Joseph Osmundson
Joseph Osmundson—memoirist, scientist, and certified popper sommelier—is the author of the new memoir, Inside/Out, in which he chronicles yearning, desire, pleasure, and pain in a contemporary gay...
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The Washington Post—owned by Jeff Bezos, who also owns Amazon—explains how independent bookstores are competing with Amazon. The Strand attempts to negotiate with the NYC Landmarks Preservation...
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Little Containers for Safekeeping: A Conversation with Rick Barot
In the summer of 2009, when I learned that Sarabande Books was going to publish my collection of lyric essays, I had the good fortune of living close enough to the press to make a visit to their...
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Slouching Toward Vantage: A Conversation with Taneum Bambrick
There are a few occasions in my reading life when I’ve felt the lightning bolt of instant recognition with a writer. The kind of experience where I look up from a book to ask out loud, “How did this...
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Abstracting Yourself: A Conversation with Robin Hemley
I first met Robin Hemley at the Portland airport baggage claim before AWP 2019. He spoke enthusiastically about both the upcoming conference and the Authors at Large writing program, and I felt...
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An Obligation to Dream: Talking with Noé Álvarez
Noé Álvarez is the debut author of Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land, a memoir that chronicles his life as the son of agricultural workers in Washington, and what...
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Stitching the Sea Together: A Conversation with Kathryn Smith
Poet Kathryn Smith isn’t afraid of channeling ghosts. Reading her first two books, Book of Exodus, about a reclusive Russian family who fled to the Siberian taiga to avoid religious persecution in the...
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Pickled Tree Cookie
In 2013, while dredging around Joe Leary Slough in Bow, Washington, two farmers discovered an abnormally large rootwad rising from the mud along their property. Near the stump, they unearthed a tree...
View ArticleThe Trauma of Surviving: Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho
“For all of my mothers, each of whom fed me in her own way, and for everyone whose voices have gone unheard.” – Grace M. Cho In her lifetime, writer and academic Grace M. Cho has had three mothers....
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Into Thin Air (The Women on Flight 305)
When the man who called himself Dan Cooper handed Florence Schaffner his ransom note on Flight 305 from Portland to Seattle, her initial dismissal of him stemmed from the assumption that he was just...
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