Tom Booth

Exit interview.

A beautiful tribute to your pal. Thanks for sharing Toby’s story.

Congratulations to OSU Press finalists Judith Barrington (Virginia's Apple) and @jonathanmbach.bsky.social (High Desert, Higher Costs)! ✨✨✨

Steve Arndt, ambassador of Portland’s literary community, dies at age 77 • Oregon ArtsWatch Arndt, who was at work on his own long novel, was also a great connecter who bound other writers warmly together: "a provider, a nurturer, a guardian angel."

Arndt, who was at work on his own long novel, was also a great connecter who bound other writers warmly together: "a provider, a nurturer, a guardian angel."

Dick's email handle always make me chuckle: "baldbasq."

Top 40 Bestsellers — Independent Publishers Caucus

Landing at #10 on the inaugural Independent Press Bestseller list is Robin Kimmerer’s Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. @osupress.bsky.social finds itself in good company with titles from @yalepress.bsky.social & @princetonupress.bsky.social also making the list.

It’s so good. Hoping Kestrel has another book in the works.

"Telling stories while staring into a live and leaping fire is a rich and holy and lovely—and social—act that we should do more often than we do... Think of it as a way to say hey to Joe Strummer."

Alan Wieder — We Will Not Be Removed: The People of King School Park Review by Lee Halvorsen •  Wieder’s intimate images and skilled story telling brings persistence, permanence, place, and people to life in Portland’s King School Park. Wieder spent several yea…

One of my favorite books of 2025: A Portland story about gentrification and a community that, despite being displaced, continues to gather at their neighborhood park. "I’m thankful to have met the stars of this real-life episode of King School Park, I smiled a lot. Gives me hope."

This season of Hush is riveting. I was listening to episode 7 on Sunday and thinking to myself: these two journalists are so damn good at what they do and how cool that it’s found a home at @opb.org. Wow, what a loss.

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Not completely forgotten—two of his poems are featured in the @osupress.bsky.social book, From Here We Speak: An Anthology of Oregon Poetry.

Frog on, PDX!

Congrats, Dede!!

With photos of a metropolis at peace by Rian Dundon (Protest City: Portland's Summer of Rage, @osupress.bsky.social, 2023)

The biggest threat to federal troops in Portland is off-leash labradoodles.

Portland’s Antifa headquarters.

In ‘Richard Neuberger,’ journalist Stephen Forrester recounts the biography of a politician ahead of his time, in an Oregon hard to remember • Oregon ArtsWatch Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1954, Neuberger was an advocate for conservation, mass transit, and mail balloting.

Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1954, Neuberger was an advocate for conservation, mass transit, and mail balloting.

Photographer Alan Wieder talks about his new book "We Will Not Be Removed: The People of King School Park" with Joseph Gallivan this week on #KBOOArtFocus
Wieder talks about photographing people in the park in gentrified Northeast Portland.
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#PortlandOregon #Photography #Community

It's nice to see early praise for "Richard Neuberger: Oregon Politics and the Making of a US Senator" on social.
‪@nickkristof.bsky.social wrote on X: "Bravo to Stephen Forrester on his powerful new biography of Neuberger, a luminous portrait of a pioneering journalist, commentator and senator."🌲❤️

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." —Ray Bradbury, born on this day in 1920

Congratulations to Elizabeth Mehren and OSU Press's copublisher The Immigrant Story for "I Lived to Tell the World" being named an Oregon Great Reads book! 🎉
Read the State Library of Oregon’s press release at beav.es/xTp.
#CenterForTheBook #NationalBookFestival #ReadUP

Kurt Fausch shares the hope "to draw [readers] into this world of what a scientist sees" in his recent work "A Reverence for Rivers."
Listen to the full conversation with Michael Simpson on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: beav.es/xiQ.
#RiverEthics #RiverEcology #Conservation #Environment

‘C.S. Price: A Portrait’: Roger Saydack’s book is a thorough and precise chronicle of the Modernist Oregon painter • Oregon ArtsWatch The elegant volume is published in connection with a retrospective show at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem.

The elegant volume is published in connection with a retrospective show at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem.

Happy Pride Month from OSU Press! 🌈
Find these books under the subject “Autobiography and Memoir” or “Women’s & Gender Studies” at www.osupress.oregonstate.edu. 📚
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Being Careful in Public Lessons from Brian Doyle's "Memorial Day"

Given the week's holiday kickoff, I used my weekly essay to think about Memorial Day via Brian Doyle's wonderful essay of the same name. I hope you spend a few minutes with it.

www.adamsowards.net/being-carefu...

Thanks, Adam—Brian's essay feels more timely than ever.

Ninety-five years wild. Happy birthday, Gary Snyder.