An author speaks on growing up black in 1990s Portland and countering his city’s hipster image.
Devon Fredericksen
Posted inNovember 26, 2012: Casting for Common Ground
Taking it to extremes: A review of Salt to Summit
Daniel Arnold breathes new life into the fabled Wild West as he takes readers on a journey of extremes in Salt to Summit: A Vagabond Journey from Death Valley to Mount Whitney. Arnold blends history and adventure recounting his expedition from Badwater Basin in Death Valley to the summit of Mount Whitney. With a distance […]
Posted inMay 28, 2012: The Gila Bend Photon Club
Filling empty pages: A review of When Women Were Birds
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on VoiceTerry Tempest Williams224 pages, hardcover: $24.Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Sarah Crichton Books), 2012. Terry Tempest Williams’ new book, When Women Were Birds, resonates with her signature gift — the ability to salvage beauty from great heartbreak. Like her acclaimed memoir Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, […]
Posted inNovember 14, 2011: Possessing the Wild
Reluctant assassins: A review of The Sisters Brothers
The Sisters BrothersPatrick DeWitt325 pages, hardcover: $24.99.HarperCollins, 2011. Although it’s set during the Gold Rush era, Oregon author Patrick DeWitt’s second novel, The Sisters Brothers, is modern Western noir at its finest. The notorious brothers Eli and Charlie Sisters work as professional hit men. Eli, the narrator, is the good-natured “fat one.” Charlie, a merciless […]