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Check out this Powell's Books ad as seen in Ms. magazine. Many thanks to Aron Nels Steinke for letting us use the great image from his zine The Super Crazy Cat Dance! 
Scorch Atlas
by Blake Butler
Synopsis
In this striking novel-in-stories, a series of strange apocalypses have hit America. Entire neighborhoods drown in mud, glass rains from the sky, birds speak gibberish, and parents of young children disappear. Millions starve while others grow coats of... ( read more)
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Man Suit
by Zachary Schomburg
Staff Pick
I think Schomburg may be my new favorite Portland poet. While reading The Man Suit, I felt both an eerie sadness and joyful wonder. These little poems, with their odd recurring themes and sober delivery, are full of untraceable magic and humor. After... ( read more)
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Stolen Sharpie Revolution 2
by Alex Wrekk
Publisher Comments
A brief, but engaging, and eminently useful guide to doing a zine. From tools to layout, copying, printing, trading, promotion, ordering, mailing, distribution, and a whole lot more. Nearly 150 (albeit pocket sized ) packed pages. Includes a handy... ( read more)
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Double Header Tiny Ron an Acquired Taste
by Suzanne Burns
Review
Suzanne Burns is obsessed with misfits. An Acquired Taste is a love story about a widowed street magician and a glass-eating divorcee. But Burns never treats her characters as one-dimensional freaks. She offers us a look past their exteriors, into their... ( read more)
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501 Minutes to Christ: Personal Essays
by Poe Ballantine
Publisher Comments
Poe Ballantine's second collection of personal essays follows, and expands on, his acclaimed Things I Like About America. Ballantine's world is a crazy quilt of odd jobs, eccentric characters, boarding houses, buses, and beer, rendered in the author's by... ( read more)
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So Late, So Soon: A Memoir
by D'Arcy Fallon
Publisher Comments
D'Arcy Fallon offers an irreverent, fly-on-the-wall view of the Lighthouse Ranch, a Christian commune she called home for three years in the mid-1970s. At 18 years old, when life's questions overwhelmed her and reconciling her family past with her future... ( read more)
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McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #15: McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 15
by Mcsweeneys
Publisher Comments
Issue 15 is also known as the "Icelandic Issue." Printed in Iceland, half of the stories are written by actual Icelandic writers. And the kicker? It also comes with an Icelandic tabloid mini-mag filled with words you won't understand and images that... ( read more)
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Zine Yearbook #9
by Microcosm Publishing
Publisher Comments
Like a fanzine grab bag, the Zine Yearbook is a collection of reprints from some people's favorite picks of zines published in a given year. This latest edition covers the zines of 2007 and includes relevant articles about the year in zinesasuper fun... ( read more)
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Small Press | Yesterday, 12:28pm
By Kevin Sampsell
When I took over the small press section at Powell's about eight years ago, I was immediately won over by a colorful little paperback book by local...
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Original Essays | October 28, 2009
By Rachel Sherman
In my novel Living Room, I write about the pain of mothering — about mothers who do not know how to be mothers. I finished my edits on the...
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