signed editions
Windflower, Signed 1st Edition by Nick Bantok
Web of Evil, Signed 1st Edition by J. A. Jance
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featured interview
 Paul Auster has been writing beautiful, metaphysical, mysterious novels for
a long time now, along with screenplays, poetry collections, essays, plays,
and memoirs. His latest, Travels in the Scriptorium, can be seen as a
distillation of much of his life's work — a spare but
multi-layered puzzle of existence and creation, conveyed in lovely,
minimalist prose. Booklist admires Travels as "an archly playful and
shrewdly philosophical tribute to the transcendence of stories." In this
interview, Auster discusses his new book (and movie), Hawthorne, poetry,
and accidents.
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HARDCOVER
A novel of great depth and richness set in the USSR in 1946, House of Meetings finds Martin Amis at the height of his powers, in new and remarkably fertile fictional territory.
Never before published, this early novel by the legendary author of Minority Report and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is the story of a young radio electronics salesman's descent into depression and madness in 1950s Oakland, California.
DVD
On board a flight over the Pacific Ocean, an assassin, bent on killing a passenger who's a witness in protective custody, lets loose a crate full of deadly snakes. Only Samuel L. Jackson can get those m-----f---in' snakes off the m-----f---in' plane! Get your copy of Snakes on a Plane, the cult hit that the Washington Post calls "pure escapist fun," now on DVD. And, of course, all DVDs ship for free (with no snakes inside — we promise!).
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PAPERBACK
The People of Paper is an astonishing debut novel about the anguish of lost love. Publishers Weekly calls it "explosively unreal, but bares human truths with devastating accuracy."
"The author is at the top of her form delving into the varied but devastating truth that, even after an apocalypse, people still have to lie in the beds they've made, unable to sleep. A terrific addition to the oeuvre of one of America's finest and most deeply empathetic short story writers" (Publishers Weekly).
EBOOK
From Patricia Marx, a celebrated humor writer for the New Yorker, comes Him Her Him Again the End of Him, a brilliantly observed debut novel about the neurosis of romance and one single woman's hilariously unhealthy obsession with her first boyfriend. Save over $10 when you buy it in eBook format!
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BROCKMAN'S 10 THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU'RE TRAPPED INSIDE FOR THE WINTER
This past week, Portland was deluged with snow for two whole days. Most of us didn't make it to work the first day, and found ourselves wondering what to do for an entire day. Snowball fights and snow angels are fun for about fifteen minutes, but then what? If you should find yourself in a similar predicament, here are a few suggestions:
1. Read a book. (Obvious, I know, but effective.)
2. Eat a book. (Not as obvious, but still quite delicious when boiled to a soft texture and basted with something tasty, like a fine chipotle sauce, or catsup.)
3. Go online for a Wiki-splosion. (Start with a random Wikipedia entry and jump from one to the next until the entire day is finished and your head is full of possibly inaccurate, most likely obscure, but almost definitely awesome factoids, innuendos, half-truths, exaggerations, and outright lies.)
4. Start a blog. (Everyone's doing it.)
5. Go on a quest for MySpace friends. (Set yourself a goal you can achieve — say, 1,500 friends — and don't stop asking random strangers to add you as a friend until you've reached the desired goal. For an advanced challenge: don't eat, use the bathroom, or pay bills until you've reached your goal. And no cheating.)
6. Living room luge. (All you need is a small sled, lots of furniture, a vivid imagination, and many, many, many cushions.)
7. WarWindowCraft. (Draw your own fantasy character on a window facing a neighbor's window, on which his/her character has been drawn. Write your hit points and other stats next to your character (use a 20-sided die to determine these amounts, naturally). Cross out the appropriate numbers after each hit; whoever gets to zero first loses. This only works with neighbors who are equally bored and/or geeky and/or are too cheap to pay the monthly fee for World of WarCraft.)
8. Unsnark Hunt. (Page through reviews in a newspaper or magazine and cross out all the negative adjectives, replace them with positive ones, and mail that page to the author whose book was torn to pieces.)
9. Read aloud with music and sound effects. (Even the best novels are rendered more vivid when the reader supplies his/her own soundtrack. "'Call me Ishmael.' Dunh-dunh-DUNH!! POW! BAM! VRRRRR...EEEEEEEEEESH!" (Don't ask me what that last sound effect was, but it sounds great when hollered at top volume at passing coworkers.))
10. Do anything naked. (Just keep your blinds shut. NOTE: "Anything" excludes WarWindowCraft.)
JULIA SCHEERES: ORIGINAL ESSAY
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Jesus Land
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ELLIS AVERY: ORIGINAL ESSAY
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The Teahouse Fire
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ABBY ELLIN: ORIGINAL ESSAY
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Teenage Waistland
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RICHARD A. CLARKE: GUEST BLOGGER
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Breakpoint
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ERIC BLEHM: GUEST BLOGGER
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The Last Season
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1. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
2. The Inheritance of Loss: A Novel by Kiran Desai
3. Zinester's Guide to Portland 2007 by Shawn Granton and Nate Beaty
4. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
5. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
6. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
7. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
8. Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition by Irma Von Starkloff Rombauer
9. Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
10. The Portland Bridge Book by Sharon Wood Wortman and Ed Wortman |
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JAN 29: Vikram Chandra
JAN 30: Chris Hedges
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Fup, on the front porch, sighs. Oreo decides to keep his mouth shut. Bear's image reflects against the glass between them: Bear on the hardwood next to Oreo, Fup outside next to wet boots.
Let them work this out by themselves, Oreo figures. The salty flavor in his mouth reminds him of sardines. Odd, given that the label called it Savory Chicken. Everything tastes like chicken to people.
Fup noses around in a work boot. A bit larger and, from the look of it, she might have curled up in its heel.
Granted, she visited a number of friends along the way — could Bear argue that she kept them waiting? He could, but — but she left the bookstore before nine o'clock. She's tired. Not entirely dry. Probably hungry. It's past two-thirty. What has Bear done all day but eat and nap?
Fup surveys the block: red house, blue, white, yellow, brown. "Which neighbor?" she asks. She's not the one locked inside.
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