Archive for April, 2010
Portland Bookstore Roundup — Pairing the Hunter with the Hunted
“Searching is half the fun; life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.”
Jimmy Buffet may have been talking about the meaning of life here, but this quote could be applied just as easily to the plight of the common book shopper. While sometimes, a bestseller ...Read more.
A Production Story: How Hawthorne Books Got Its Double Scored Flaps
Kate’s husband, Ed, often complained about the flaps on our original paperback books. He said that he couldn’t use them as bookmarks because they pulled out of the text and with the flap inserted in the book it wouldn’t lay flat. He was right.
Fast forward to the Netherlands. I had friends living there, and planned ...Read more.
Fresh Air & AWP Conference
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“And I remember looking up at God and saying, ‘God, maybe there’s something wrong. Maybe you’re right. Maybe on the black, Asian and Latino issue, maybe we are all equal.’”
The above quote is from Frank Meeink’s interview with Dave Davies on Fresh Air Wednesday, April 7th. The thirty-minute interview covered Meeink’s abusive upbringing, his transformation ...Read more.
