Guests
by Farley, April 26, 2014 12:19 PM
By the time they made the movie musical, the book had gone out of print. Which was a shame. The original novel, a true comic classic, really was the best of the lot. Not only are the comic descriptions hilarious, but when they made the many adaptations, they cut out all the best bits, which were too risqué for a '50s audience. Today, you won't have to hide it from your mother. But it's as funny as
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Guests
by Farley, March 10, 2014 12:32 PM
Not your typical hotel-gift-shop guidebook, Fugitives and Refugees makes no pretense at objectivity. This is a decidedly idiosyncratic and personal book. Palahniuk's Portland is eccentric, dysfunctional, and perverse. If you're new to Palahniuk's work, this book may win you
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Guests
by Farley, October 31, 2013 3:24 PM
Having once lived in Thailand, discovering Andy Ricker's Portland restaurant was a revelation. Pok Pok is the only Thai restaurant I've been to here that truly tastes (and smells, sounds, and feels) like Thailand. Now, with this part cookbook, part food memoir, part travelogue, you can re-create the true Thai experience at home
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What We're Reading
by Farley, April 13, 2006 11:10 AM
Have you been following the Morning News's Tournament of Books closely? Then you already understand how the tournament works, who's been winning and losing, and what that Rooster is all about ? and you can explain it all to me. But if not, it's time to catch up. The tournament is now officially over. Ali Smith's The Accidental has just bested Sam Lipsyte's Home Land to win this year's Cock???er Rooster. Disappointed Lipsyte fans can take comfort in their American Spirits, and the fact that it was a very close contest. With seventeen judges voting, the result was a nail-biting nine to seven. Those of you with basic math skills may notice that there's a vote missing (nine plus seven does not equal seventeen, now does it?). Alas, Dale Peck was too disgusted at the state of contemporary fiction to vote (though, unfortunately, not too disgusted to compose and submit a long-winded lecture about it). Fortunately, the rest of the judges did find the strength to vote. To read their frank assessments of both books, please click here.
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Miscellany
by Farley, November 9, 2005 12:55 PM
Several years ago, I made of copy of the following poem found handwritten on the title page of a book of poetry by Richard Hugo and signed "Dick Hugo." It goes out to the residents of Kansas, which isn't literally a mountain town, but probably feels like one today: When your car is fixed you head on northSticking with the highway, telling yourself if you'd gone it would have been no fun. Mountain towns are lovely, hung way away like that, throbbing in light. But stay in one two hours. You pat your car and say Let's go, friend. You drive off never hearing the bruised girl in the convent screaming take me with you. I am not a nun.
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