Broadway Review October 2011
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Broadway Review October 2011 CELEBRATE THE REGION: 30% OFF BOOKS FROM THREE LOCAL PUBLISHERS We feel so lucky to live in Portland, where we enjoy gorgeous scenery, friendly people, a large and varied arts community, plenty of delicious food and drink, a world-class transit system, a local economy that includes many independent businesses, a thriving outdoor lifestyle – the list of treasures to be grateful for is endless. We are also exceptionally blessed in the literary department, with a wealth of accomplished, thought- provoking authors and a spirited, knowledgeable literary community that includes author readings at bookstores, Wordstock (more on that later), the Portland Arts and Lectures series (and many more programs of Literary Arts), and lots more. We are especially blessed with a wide array of world-class publishers located in the region. This month we are celebrating three of those publishers with a special promotion, offering 30% off their books through the month of October. Hawthorne Books and Literary Arts, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, focuses on literary fiction and narrative non-fiction, promoting emerging writers, cultivating notable literary figures, and presenting international voices as well.Their authors include Scott Nadelson, Lidia Yuknavitch, Monica Drake, Poe Ballantine, David Rocklin, Tom Spanbauer, and Gin Phillips. Publisher Rhonda Hughes lives in Irvington, where she grows heirloom tomatoes in the back yard of Hawthorne’s headquarters. Corvallis-based publisher Oregon State University Press, founded in 1961, is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year. The press’s mission is to contribute to the intellectual, cultural, and social development of Oregon and the West. They strive to publish books that contain ideas and information that otherwise might not find a forum: books that are recognized for their superior scholarship and creativity. OSU authors include Robin Cody, Brian Doyle, Barbara Roberts, Avel Louise Gordly, Gregory Nokes, Don Berry, Evelyn Searle Hess, Ellen Waterston, Stewart Holbrook, and William Stafford. Tin House Books, an offshoot of Tin House magazine, is based in Portland and in Brooklyn. Spearheaded by Irvington resident Lee Montgomery, this publisher of literary fiction and nonfiction books issues about a dozen titles a year, and its authors have garnered attention from the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and O, the Oprah magazine. Tin House authors include Scott Sparling, Sarahlee Lawrence, Bernard DeVoto, Harriet Fasenfast, Jim Krusoe, and Katie Arnold-Ratliff. We hope you will join us this month in celebrating these three publishers and take advantage of our month-long 30% off promotion of their titles. You’ll find their books on display in our window and in our store, and on our website you’ll find links to books available from each of these publishers during the promotion: www.broadwaybooks.net WE’LL SEE YOU AT WORDSTOCK! October brings us Portland’s annual celebration of books and authors, the Wordstock Festival. This year Wordstock offers dozens of events and culminates in the Wordstock Book Fair at the Oregon Convention Center on October 8th and 9th. Authors at the Book Fair come from near and far, and there are events for book lovers of all ages. Some of the authors featured this year are Jennifer Egan, Barry Lopez, Diana Abu-Jaber, Chelsea Cain, Michael Ondaatje, Colin Meloy, Tracy Daugherty, Steve Duin, Anne Enright, Julia Glass, Daniel Woodrell, Maggie Stiefvator, Scott Westerfeld, Ursula K. LeGuin, Paulann Petersen, Craig Thompson, Cheryl Strayed, and Isabel Wilkerson. You can pick up a schedule of Wordstock events at our store or you can go to the festival’s website: www.bewordstock.org. We’ll be there and would love to see you at our booth. OCTOBER EVENTS Thursday, October 20 at 7 pm - Paulann Petersen and Paul Merchant will read in our monthly series, Comma. Ms.Petersen is Oregon’s Poet Laureate. She is also a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University whose poems have appeared in many publications including Poetry, The New Republic, Prairie Schooner, and Wilderness She is the author of several chapbooks and five full-length collections of poetry. Her latest book, The Voluptuary, was recently published by Lost Horse Press. Mr. Merchant has been director of the William Stafford Archives for the last sixteen years, and is currently Special Collections Associate at Lewis & Clark College. A native of Wales, he taught for many years at Warwick University before taking up residence in Portland. His fourth collection of poems, Some Business of Affinity, was a finalist at the 2007 Oregon Book Awards. His translation from the Greek of Twelve Poems for Cavafy, by Yannis Ritsos, appeared in December 2010 from Tavern Books. Friday, October 21 at 7 pm - Matt Love and Lisa Wells will be here to read from their recently published books. Matt Love is the author/editor of seven books about Oregon. In 2009, he won the Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award, presented by Literary Arts. His newest book, Love & the Green Lady, is a book of meditations on the Yaquina Bay Bridge, which Love calls “Oregon’s Crown Jewel of Socialism.” This is what he has to say: “One afternoon, I drove across the Yaquina Bay Bridge, looked at its soaring green curves and saw a woman. Right there I dubbed her the Green Lady and I was in love. She’s turning 75 and I had to get her a unique birthday present. This book is it.” Matt lives in South Beach and teaches at Newport High School. Portland writer Lisa Wells is a promising young memoirist whose book, Yeah. No. Totally., is a searing portrait of a generation on the brink. In this collection of think-pieces on topics from lost rock clubs to the barrios of Nicaragua, she pulls no punches. Novelist Jon Raymond says, “You think the kids aren’t listening? The kids are listening….If you’ve been looking for a bright, wise guide to the times, Ms. Wells has a whole world to show you.” Tuesday, October 25 at 7 pm - Portland author Floyd Skloot will be here to read from his new collection of short stories, Cream of Kohlrabi, published by Tupelo Press in Massachusetts. This is Mr. Skloot’s first book of short stories. Many of the stories have been published earlier in literary journals and elsewhere. The great short story writer Richard Bausch says, “The people in these stories are palpable, so much so that somehow the language on the page disappears, and you feel as if the character you are reading about might walk into the room and interrupt you….Floyd Skloot has a great poet’s eye for detail, and a gifted story-teller’s skill at delivering the contexts that make those details shimmer. These stories are not only brilliant, they are necessary.” Floyd Skloot is the author of many books of poetry, fiction, and memoir. His most recent project (besides this one) is The Best American Science Writing 2011, an anthology of short science pieces he edited with his daughter, Rebecca Skloot (author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks). PRSRT STD US POSTAGE PAID PORTLAND OR PERMIT NO 299 CURRENT RESIDENT OR: .