For readers who prefer madcap to claptrap, quixotic pranks to neurotic angst, Poe Ballantine is a literary tonic: Bittersweet, potent, and peculiarly entertaining.
California Calling split my heart open and reminded me how much immigrations matter, how much we all carry the traces of other worlds.
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!
True Portland is more than a travel guide, it’s a curated experience.
Jenny Forrester has hit the mother lode.
24 April 2018, 7:00pm
University Book Store, Seattle , WA
20 May 2018, 4:00pm
Leach Botanical Garden, Portland , OR
Brief items of interest concerning our books and authors
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.
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
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
Hawthorne Books and authors live and in person
24 April 2018, 7:00pmFacebook Twitter
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.
20 May 2018, 4:00pmFacebook Twitter
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.
Observations on books and publishing
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
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
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
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