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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

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Events & Readings

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Natalie Singer named as one of 35 Over 35 for California Calling A Self-Interrogation

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

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05 December 2018

Natalie Singer named as one of 35 Over 35 for California Calling A Self-Interrogation

CONGRATULATIONS Natalie Singer, chosen to be one of 35 Over 35 for her book California Calling: A Self-Interrogation!


From 35 OVER 35
BECAUSE PUBLISHING A BOOK DESERVES CELEBRATION AT ANY STAGE OF ONE’S CAREER.


Writing a book is a significant...Forward

27 August 2018

Marissa Korbel interviews Natalie Singer, author of California Calling: A Self-Interrogation, for The Rumpus

It was the cover that first piqued my interest in Natalie Singer’s debut memoir, California Calling: A Self-Interrogation. The wide, bright, concentric, circles in rainbow colors, the sans serif typography, and the subtitle promising “a...Forward

10 July 2018

Poe Ballantine interviewed by Ken Jones, Host of Between the Covers, KBOO

Host Ken Jones talks with Poe Ballantine, author of the new book Whirlaway: The Great American Loony Bin, Horseplaying & Record-Collecting Novel, published by Portland’s Hawthorne Books.

Poe has published seven books and hundreds of stories and...Forward

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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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