Author Archive
OPB’s Art Beat Revisited
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Over the years we’ve had a lot of Hawthorne Books folks featured on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Art Beat. Here are some of our favorite Art Beat episodes featuring Monica Drake, Kassten Alonso, Michael Strelow, Tom Spanbauer, Adam McIsaac. Please let me know if I’ve left anyone out and I’ll add a link. Enjoy!
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Art ...Read more.
What We’re Reading Pt. 5
Yet another installment of the What We’re Reading series (here’s what we were reading in July) with all sorts of novels, cookbooks, story collections and more. Please chime in if you’ve read any of these books and also let us know what good books you’ve read lately…
Rhonda:
When I Forgot, Elina Hirvonen
The Twin, Gerbrand Bakker
The ...Read more.
Hawthorne Books Round-up November 2011
With so many titles published over the past ten years sometimes it’s hard to keep track of everything our authors have been up to. Here are a few highlights from the past several weeks. Please let us know anything and everything that we’ve left out!
Our fall title The Luminist, by David Rocklin, is getting fantastic ...Read more.
David Rocklin and The Luminist Book Events
David Rocklin’s The Luminist launched this Saturday, October 1st and you know what that means — lots of great author events to follow for Mr. Rocklin! Here’s the current lineup.
Coming soon to a city near you!
Sunday, 9 October 2011 :: 2.00 pm — Portland, Oregon
Wordstock Literary Festival | Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE ML King ...Read more.
Wordstock 2011
We love Wordstock here at Hawthorne Books. We have all sorts of events slated for this year’s festival and I’ve laid them all out for you here. Every year we have a booth at the Book Fair in the main hall and that’s where you’ll find publisher Rhonda Hughes, senior editor Adam O’Connor Rodriguez and ...Read more.
Essay from David Rocklin
On Thursday, October 20, 2011, I will be in the middle of a reading tour for my novel, The Luminist (pub. date Oct. 1st). Almost exactly in the middle, as it turns out. The middle of the journey and the middle of the country. That evening I’ll be reading at a bookstore in Northbrook, Illinois. ...Read more.
Essay from Scott Nadelson
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Once again the fields we mow
And gather in the aftermath.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sometime during the summer of 2005, while working on a new story, I wrote lines of dialogue that surprised me. “The world died a long time before you were born,” a father tells his daughter and son-in-law, who are shocked and saddened by ...Read more.
Scott Nadelson and Aftermath Book Events
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Scott Nadelson’s short story collection Aftermath is due to spread its wings in just TEN days! Its pub. date is next Thursday, September 1st and with that comes all sorts of great book events throughout the Pacific Northwest. Below is the current lineup. Please be in touch if you’d like to set a reading or ...Read more.
Hawthorne Books Round-up
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With so many titles published over the past 10 years sometimes it’s hard to keep track of what all of our authors have been up to. Here are a few highlights from the past few months. Please let us know anything and everything that we left out!
Portland Monthly visited Hawthorne Books in the spring for ...Read more.
We Love Indie Bookstores
It seems like every week there is a new gloom and doom report on books. No one is reading them…the printed book is going the way of the dinosaurs…indie bookstores and small publishing houses are being cornered and eaten alive by large corporations. Roar! Obviously, we like to stay abreast of all publishing and ...Read more.
