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  • Whirlaway

    Poe Ballantine

    Whirlaway:
    The Great American Loony Bin, Horseplaying, & Record-collecting Novel

    fiction

    For readers who prefer madcap to claptrap, quixotic pranks to neurotic angst, Poe Ballantine is a literary tonic: Bittersweet, potent, and peculiarly entertaining.

    Tom Robbins
  • California Calling: A Self-Interrogation

    Natalie Singer

    California Calling:
    A Self-Interrogation

    nonfiction

    California Calling split my heart open and reminded me how much immigrations matter, how much we all carry the traces of other worlds.

    Lidia Yuknavitch
    Author of The Chronology of Water
  • Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead, 2nd edition

    Frank MeeinkJody M. Roy, Ph.D

    Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead, 2nd edition:
    The Frank Meeink Story as Told to Jody M. Roy, Ph.D

    nonfiction / memoir

    Frank Meeink’s book is a candid and captivating story of upbeat transformation of a raw racist into a courageous citizen which has much to teach all of us. Don’t miss it!

    Cornel West
  • True Portland

    Teruo Kurosaki

    True Portland:
    The Unofficial Guide for Creative People

    nonfiction / travel

    True Portland is more than a travel guide, it’s a curated experience.

  • Narrow River, Wide Sky

    Jenny Forrester

    Narrow River, Wide Sky

    nonfiction / memoir

    Jenny Forrester has hit the mother lode.

    Lidia Yuknavitch
    Author of The Chronology of Water

In brief

Events & Readings

Natalie Singer University Book Store

24 April 2018, 7:00pm
University Book Store, Seattle , WA

Natalie Singer at Why There are Words PDX Reading Series

20 May 2018, 4:00pm
Leach Botanical Garden, Portland , OR

News

Roxane Gay includes Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water in her Reading List of Five Memoirs.

From the blog

ORIGINAL ESSAYS The Adventurer vs. the Scholar by Liz Crain, for Powell's Books Blog

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Brief items of interest concerning our books and authors

12 April 2018

Roxane Gay includes Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water in her Reading List of Five Memoirs.

The Reading List: Five Memoirs
Acclaimed essayist and intellectual Roxane Gay on her favorites of the genre.
Shondaland

Also included Terese Maillot, Morgan Jerkins, Claudia Rankine, and Aleksandar Hemon.

10 April 2018

The Nervous Break down runs an excerpt from Poe Ballantine’s novel, Whirlaway

“At twenty-seven years old I was not emotionally equipped for living under lock and key behind sixteen-foot cyclone fences and having my ass stabbed every three days with drugs that turned my brains to buttermilk.” -Eddie Plum

To read the excerpt...Forward

10 April 2018

Poe Ballantine does a Self-Interview for The Nervous Breakdown

Poe Ballantine: The TNB Self-Interview
By TNB Fiction
April 10, 2018
Fiction Self-Interviews

The last time we talked we learned you were born in a log cabin and the illegitimate son of the Queen of England, what good that did anyone is hard to say,...Forward

Events & Readings

Hawthorne Books and authors live and in person

24 April 2018, 7:00pm|Facebook Twitter

Natalie Singer University Book Store

Join Natalie Singer for a discussion on writing about place as character with three other Seattle authors who have also recently released exciting new books: Jennifer Haupt, Anca L. Szilagyi, and Priscilla Long. The event will be moderated by University Book Store’s Terry Tazioli.

locationUniversity Book Store
4326 University Way NE, Seattle , WA 98105
206-634-3400

20 May 2018, 4:00pm|Facebook Twitter

Natalie Singer at Why There are Words PDX Reading Series

Please join Natalie Singer, author of California Calling: A Self-Interrogation, who will be reading from her new memoir at the monthly Why There are Words PDX reading series with five other authors to be announced. May’s reading theme is “Pollinate” and there is a suggested donation of $10 at the door.

locationLeach Botanical Garden
6704 SE 122nd Ave., Portland , OR 97236
503-823-9503

From the blog

Observations on books and publishing

ORIGINAL ESSAYS The Adventurer vs. the Scholar by Liz Crain, for Powell's Books Blog

Posted by Liz Crain on 29 June 2017

Recently I spent a good amount of time watching the great PBS food series The Mind of a Chef. The show typically sticks with one chef for several episodes — shadowing them at their restaurant(s)...Forward

True Portland Book Launch Party

Posted by Liz Crain on 27 June 2017

Wow. What a party. Thank you so much to everyone who came out for our Hawthorne Books + Media Surf/Bridge Lab + Reverent Nat’s Hard Cider True Portland: The Unofficial Guide for Creative People book...Forward

Fermentation Future Forum 2017, Tokyo, Japan

Posted by Liz Crain on 02 February 2017

I had the extremely good fortune to be invited to speak at Tokyo’s first annual Fermentation Future Forum (F3) a couple of weeks ago. The forum was organized by cultural luminary Teruo Kurosaki and...Forward

Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts

Hawthorne Books is an independent literary press based in Portland, Oregon. We publish good books, mostly in the American literary fiction and narrative non-fiction sections, though we're always looking for good international titles. If we specialize in anything, it's in finding superb writing which might be overlooked by larger houses, and giving it the attention it deserves. Since 2002, Hawthorne titles have been consistently shortlisted for respected literary awards. And we've won more than a few of them. More importantly, we have developed a loyal community of readers and writers.

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