Books Fire-and-forget missiles are launched and then left to their own devices, whizzing toward inevitable destruction. The veteran authors of Fire and Forget: Short Stories From the Long War (Da Capo More
Fire and Forget
Born on the 11th of September.
Books Fire-and-forget missiles are launched and then left to their own devices, whizzing toward inevitable destruction. The veteran authors of Fire and Forget: Short Stories From the Long War (Da Capo More
Sam Lipsyte, The Fun Parts
Books Sam Lipsyte chortlingly revels in the warty and the ruined of America, the wounded strivers who live in the world of spit, shit and piss. He’s also an unrepentant self-amuser prone to the lite More
Mayer-Schönberger & Cukier, Big Data
Books You don’t need a sophisticated algorithm or large database to calculate how many pennants (zero) that Billy “Moneyball” Beane has won in 15 years running the Oakland Athletics. But even if More
Kinfolk
Better Homes and Grey Gardens.
Books For all the tears shed over the withering magazine industry, certain niche periodicals have actually thrived. Design-oriented mags require the printed page for best effect, foodies aren’t yet More
Angélica Gorodischer, Trafalgar
Oregonians cry for you, Argentina.
Books Literature is the natural home of the impossible. But far too often the impossible is spurned in favor of the prosaic, as if truth dressed itself only in flannel. Argentine fiction, from Borge More
Mary Szybist, Incarnadine
To: Donkey Sanctuary. Re: What I want.
Books Even for avid readers of all genres, poetry can sometimes feel a bit…unapproachable. But the poems of Portland-based writer Mary Szybist read more like a letter from an old friend, familiar an More
Sonja Lyubomirsky, The Myths of Happiness
#whitepeopleproblems.
Books There is suffering in the well-appointed kitchens and cozy dens of the American middle class. The Myths of Happiness, a new book by Sonja Lyubomirsky, seeks to address the malaise we feel when we’re More
Barney Blalock, Portland’s Lost Waterfront
What do you do with a drunken sailor?
Books Of course you’ve heard the stories of victims disappearing in the night. Drunken and drugged tourists shipped through Portland’s vast network of turn-of-the-century Shanghai tunnels and sent a More
Trevor Aaronson, The Terror Factory
Are they terrorists or just lonely fools?
Books The Justice Department has prosecuted more than 500 terrorism defendants since 9/11. On its face, that statistic seems to show the federal government is doing its level best to keep us safe. But More
Clear the Bar
Portland author Patrick deWitt got his break through free drinks.
Books Before he made it to Portland, novelist Patrick deWitt tried to leave Los Angeles six times. Six times he swore he was bailing for good. Six times he was sucked back into the city’s black hole. More
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