Archive for May, 2010
What We’re Reading: Part 2
Kate:
A lot of articles in Harper’s Magazine and The New Yorker
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
Nomad: From Islam to America, Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Red Familes v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture, Naomi Cahn and June Carbone
Rhonda:
The Museum of Innocence, Orhan Pamuk
Love Junkie: A Memoir, Rachel Resnick
In the Place of Justice: ...Read more.
PSU’s Ooligan Press Conference: Write to Publish
Publisher and poet, Geoffrey Faber, once stated “The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper.”
For years writers have struggled with the task of not only dancing with, but first discovering what the publisher’s tune is. ...Read more.
Little Green Gains Ground
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It’s been busy at Hawthorne Books this spring and that’s not going to stop this summer. Loretta Stinson’s debut novel Little Green, with an introduction by Robin Givens and accolades from Debra Gwartney, Cheryl Strayed, Gina Oschner and other renowned writers comes out in less than a month — June 1st pub. date — and ...Read more.
Katie Shaw Goes to AWP’s Annual Conference
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Before I began working as an intern at Hawthorne Books, I bought tickets to attend this year’s AWP (The Association of Writers & Writing Programs) annual conference mid-April in Denver with some of my peers from Portland State University’s publishing program. Ooligan Press, the student-run press connected to the publishing program, wasn’t going to have ...Read more.
