Monday, April 17, 2006
Urban Scrawl
Here is a link to the piece that I did for The Oregonian on Portland-as-book-reading town:
http://tinyurl.com/g5o3z
Here are some of the places that were left out:
I know.
The good news is that a new feature in the Monday Oregonian's Living section, Talk of the Book Town, is a spot to write about some of the great things happening in Portland related to books. Mostly working on chronicling readings right now, but I'm not above adding in some other book/publishing/magazine news if you've got it.
I've noticed that the O! section of The Oregonian has not yet developed a readily recognized moniker.
"What section is it in?"
"O!"
"What?"
"Arts!"
"Oh."
http://tinyurl.com/g5o3z
Here are some of the places that were left out:
- local colleges and universities
- several bookstores
- the libraries
- long-running series out of town
- Irradiated Poets
I know.
The good news is that a new feature in the Monday Oregonian's Living section, Talk of the Book Town, is a spot to write about some of the great things happening in Portland related to books. Mostly working on chronicling readings right now, but I'm not above adding in some other book/publishing/magazine news if you've got it.
I've noticed that the O! section of The Oregonian has not yet developed a readily recognized moniker.
"What section is it in?"
"O!"
"What?"
"Arts!"
"Oh."
