It’s been a book year in the Snoek-Brown household. I already posted about the book-shopping my wife and I did over the Thanksgiving weekend, but we’ve recently picked up several more books — some as gifts, some as door prizes, some as new purchases of our own — and yesterday, as I was straightening upContinue reading “Buy books for the holidays — THESE books”
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Book shopping for the holidays
Rather unintentionally, this holiday weekend has been quite a book-shopping extravaganza here in the Snoek-Brown household. It all started on the night before Thanksgiving, when Kevin Sampsell — Portland author, publisher, and man in charge of the small press section at Powell’s Books — posted on Facebook that my chapbook, Box Cutters, had hit the shelves at Powell’s.Continue reading “Book shopping for the holidays”
Words everywhere
What a week in literature! This past Tuesday, my wife and I went to see Salman Rushdie speak as the inaugural writer in this year’s Portland Arts & Lectures series. I’ve heard him on the radio several times and I’ve enjoyed his appearances on The Daily Show, so I knew the guy was not onlyContinue reading “Words everywhere”
Todd McNamee releases “Drifting”
“I’m a bastard.” Could you ask for a better opening line? But the narrator in Todd McNamee’s debut novel, Drifting, isn’t speaking figuratively or self-depracatingly: he means this literally. “My name is Patrick Mulligan and I was raised an only child in Portland, Oregon, by a mother who loved me,” the narrator continues. “My father’sContinue reading “Todd McNamee releases “Drifting””
Oregon Book Awards 2013
Last night I had the terrific honor of attending the Oregon Book Awards ceremony here in Portland. Better still, I got to sit down front, with my writer pal Hobie Anthony and poetry nominee Carrie Seitzinger and her partner Matty Byloos. Before and after the ceremony, I chatted with fiction nominee Alexis M. Smith and double-nomineeContinue reading “Oregon Book Awards 2013”
Where everybody knows your name
It’s that time of year again: all the cool people are headed to the annual conference of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs — my beloved AWP. This year it’s in Boston, another of my favorite conference cities, and once again I’m bummed I can’t make it. I just have to one year leftContinue reading “Where everybody knows your name”
A whole string of announcements
I know, gang. I’ve been awful about updating the blog lately. Call me busy — with editing, with teaching, with tutoring, with a slew of other projects. But I’m not alone. Some friends of mine have been quite busy lately, too! Matthew Burnside, whose fiction I have become a huge fan of, has a newContinue reading “A whole string of announcements”
Originally posted on Meg Tuite's Blog:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/meg-tuite/exquisite-quartet-anthology-2012/paperback/product-20627117.html Exquisite Quartet Anthology 2012 is available for purchase. An outstanding group of writers: Mary Stone Dockery, Alex Pruteanu, Kristine Ong Muslim, Ben Tanzer, Len Kuntz, James Claffey, Timothy Gager, Kevin Ridgeway, Linda Hedrick, Angelle Scott, Joseph A.W. Quintela, Andrea Carlisle, Leah Rogin-Roper, Ken McPherson, Nate Jordon, Julie…
A friend in need
Eirik Gumeny is Jersey Devil Press’s founder and godfather (I have yet to kiss his ring, but only because we’re several states apart). And right now, Eirik needs our help, folks. With the cost of a transplant often exceeding $500,000, many families are unable to shoulder the financial burden of such a procedure. The Children’sContinue reading “A friend in need”
Bram Stoker’s birthday!
I love vampires. No, not sparkly emo teens: I’m talking about VAMPIRES: And there is no one — I’m sorry, Anne Rice fans and Chelsea Quinn Yarbo fans and Richard Matheson fans and Steve Niles fans — there is NO ONE who has ever written a vampire story as brilliant as the one that launchedContinue reading “Bram Stoker’s birthday!”
Samuel Snoek-Brown 