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Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series To Feature Memoirist PUTSATA REANG on November 14
Read more: Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series To Feature Memoirist PUTSATA REANG on November 14Putsata Reang’s debut memoir, Ma and Me, tells the story not only of her family’s harrowing flight from their ravaged homeland but also her childhood in small-town Oregon. There, she endured the struggles of being an immigrant in a land often hostile to immigrants and coming out as gay in…
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What Are the Best 21st Century Books about the Pacific Northwest?
Read more: What Are the Best 21st Century Books about the Pacific Northwest?Best book lists are always subjective and somewhat suspect. Consider the New York Times’ recent list of the “100 Best Books of the 21st Century,” for example. As Spokane author Sharma Shields points out in her great recent post on the subject of book lists, the NYT’s list has NO…
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Neuroscientist Clayton Page Aldern To Appear October 10 in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series
Read more: Neuroscientist Clayton Page Aldern To Appear October 10 in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation SeriesNeuroscientist and celebrated climate change author Clayton Page Aldern to appear in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation series, 6 p.m., Thursday, October 10.
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Three Questions and a Quote: Salish Novelist Debra Magpie Earling
Read more: Three Questions and a Quote: Salish Novelist Debra Magpie EarlingSalish Novelist Debra Magpie Earling talks about her relationship to the Pacific Northwest and the writing by herself and others that explores and celebrates it.
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Marking the Miles Until Home: A Review of Scott Nadelson’s TRUST ME
Read more: Marking the Miles Until Home: A Review of Scott Nadelson’s TRUST METhe fly fisherman who lives in the woods or spends all his free time at the river is such a staple of Northwest writing, it’s almost a cliché. But in his immensely readable and often touching second novel, award-winning short-story writer Scott Nadelson, turns the image on its head.
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A Beautiful Solo-Sailing Story in The Sun
Read more: A Beautiful Solo-Sailing Story in The SunI just read a beautiful and touching short story about a woman solo-sailing in Northwest waters. Written by talented NW author Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, you can read it for free this month at The Sun.
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First Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Evening with Sharma Shields a Huge Sucess
Read more: First Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Evening with Sharma Shields a Huge SucessThe inaugural Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation evening took place on Thursday, August 8, with the eminently charming Sharma Shields as the first featured author. In a beautiful museum setting, with Z. Vanessa Helder’s magnificent watercolors on the walls, 60+ people heard a terrifically talented writer talk about her life and her work.
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Join Us September 12 For the Next Author in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series: Debra Magpie Earling
Read more: Join Us September 12 For the Next Author in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series: Debra Magpie EarlingMontana novelist and Bitterroot Salish Tribe Member Debra Magpie Earling will be the next featured writer in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series. The author of Perma Red and The Lost Journals of Sacajewea, Earling will appear in conversation with series host Michael N. McGregor at 6 p.m. on Thursday, September 12.
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Ooligan Press Releases Two Intriguing New Books with a Northwest Focus
Read more: Ooligan Press Releases Two Intriguing New Books with a Northwest FocusOoligan Press, the award-winnning publishing house run by graduate students in the Portland State University Book Publishing program, recently released two exciting new titles with strong Northwest connections….
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