Age of Aquarius
Audacious hopes for the new year
Age of Aquarius Audacious hopes for the new year by Sally Sheklow Continue reading
Year: 2008
They Didn’t Fit: More books for giving and/or reading
The week of Winter Reading, you could give us the whole paper and we’d still want more space. And, for that matter, more time; it’s the time needed to read, consider and review that keeps Winter Reading somewhat under control. Continue reading
Better Not Pout
Let’s not myth out on Santa Claus
Better not Pout Let’s not myth out on Santa Claus An essay by Jim Earl We live in a state of near-total confusion. So few of us know what we really believe. Continue reading
Bad Time for Book Lovers — and Editors, Designers, Publicists…
I’ve been saving links for nearly two weeks now for this post — since December 3, when the publishing industry, by all accounts, imploded. Dramatically. Continue reading
What Are You Playing? Books!
Don’t love Nintendo? Love books? What if they crossbred? In the UK, people will soon be able to read classics on the Nintendo DS. COOL. Nintendo, the Japanese video games has announced a deal with the publisher HarperCollins to make the classics available to read on its DS games consoles. Continue reading
Your Favorite Bartender is EVERYWHERE
How does the national media love the man Eugeneans voted Best Bartender? I’ll spare you from counting the ways; you can check the press page of his website for that. I just want to mention the two latest, er, mentions: • Last week, The Wall Street Journal did a story on Repeal Day, the growing-in-popularity sorta-holiday that celebrates the end of Prohibition: Continue reading
Astrologically Speaking
Floating and gloating, post-election
Astrologically Speaking Floating and gloating, post-election by Sally Sheklow Continue reading
Peter Matthiessen Wins National Book Award for Fiction
So now that Peter Matthiessen has won the National Book Award for Fiction for Shadow Country, will the literary world erupt into a noisy discussion about whether a “reworking” of an older trilogy should really be eligible for the award at all? I admit to a bit of skepticism myself, but the book description on Amazon goes to great pains to suggest it’s a totally different thing (except not): Continue reading
Big Crowd at Fairgrounds Election Night
A record crowd of more than 1,000 people packed the Lane County Fairgrounds pavilion to watch the elections and Barack Obama victory speech on projection TVs. Here’s a short look: Continue reading
Disgruntled Look Inside KEZI News
Not sure what to make of this disgruntled insider video of KEZI news from a year ago. Have things changed? Continue reading