Books Indie this, DIY that: Portlanders revel in being their own bosses. And as anyone creative with a message will tell you, putting together your own zine offers the best of many worlds, with its low star ... More
PDX Zine Symposium
Canadian staple-wielding grandmas invade Portland this weekend.
Books Indie this, DIY that: Portlanders revel in being their own bosses. And as anyone creative with a message will tell you, putting together your own zine offers the best of many worlds, with its low star ... More
City Of Slackers
WW takes a joy ride with the self-professed expert on "Doing Nothing" to find out just why Portland is so damn laid-back.
Featured Stories Who were Francis Pettygrove of Portland, Maine, and Asa Lovejoy of Boston, Mass.?If you said "this city's founders," you're right.But if you said, "lazy, lazy men," you'd be right, too: When it came t ... More
FC2's The Writer's Edge
Experimental fiction will destroy publishing, takes over Portland.
Books Every few years, it seems two more publishers merge, and fewer companies control what we read. Despite the ballyhoo about self-publishing and print-on-demand, the reality is that six publishers now do ... More
Winona Laduke
The Green activist takes on wild rice and the White House.
Q & A With a decades-long history nationally of activism and altruism, former Green Party vice presidential candidate Winona LaDuke may seem very distant from the rest of us.But the back story for the 47-ye ... More
Cheap Eats 2006
Food Reviews & Stories Forget about a lunchtime menu for this quaint, downtown Mediterranean spot—before dinner, it's buffet-only. But don't shy away: $7.99 gets you heaps of salad, rice, rolls, and a smorgasbord of entrees, including famous roasted chicken. For supper, start with garlicky hummus ($3.99) or baba ghanouj ( More
Teach Me Tonight! Friday, July 14
Reasons you may or may not want to support a literary nonprofit.
Books "I can't go on, I'll go on [to Teach Me Tonight: a benefit for 826 Valencia, a nonprofit creative-writing tutoring center founded by McSweeney's maven Dave Eggers]," said Nobel Prize laureate Samuel B ... More
Girls In Peril
Books Considering the risky business that is fiction publishing today, it seems odd that printing a novella by an unknown author could be considered a safe move for a small, independent publisher. So it's m ... More
Chuck Klosterman
The essayist on waffles, Rod Stewart and being unknown in Akron.
Books According to the online know-it-all Wikipedia, Charles John "Chuck" Klosterman is an American pop-culture journalist, critic and essayist who was born on June 5, 1972, in Wilkin County, Minn., and rai ... More
Literary Threesome
A triple threat against the usual, boring beach book.
Books Samuel Beckett: Grove Centenary Edition, edited by Paul Auster (Grove Press, 4 vols., $100)With 2006 marking Beckett's 100th birthday, a slew of so-so biographies and humdrum critical works on the 196 ... More
Gay Talese
One progenitor of New Journalism tells it like it is—or should be.
Books Whether or not the good-natured, gentile 74-year-old will admit it, Gay Talese, like Tom Wolfe, is a founder of what many call "New Journalism." Rather than relaying the Five Ws (who, what, where, whe ... More
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Book? Tragic. Life? Happy. House? Pink. David Foster Wallace vs. Strunk And White
Gata Salvaje
A white girl's journey into Portland's Latino stripculture. Girls In Peril
Winona Laduke
The Green activist takes on wild rice and the White House. HEARTBREAKERS MEET BOILERPLATE
Arty Portland comic partners publish a mash-up of sci-fi and historical fiction. Benjamin Kunkel
All you really need to succeed as a novelist is... everything possible. Dammit! Examination Nation
Local spelling bee, quiz night and Jeopardy! fanatics: get ready to mark your calendars. AMERICAN MORPHIST
Novelist Bret Easton Ellis on Tom Cruise, the Today show and what's really scary. Literary Threesome
Read what all the cool kids are reading. You want to be cool, don't you?
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