Columns
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Florence Foster Jenkins, Meryl Streep, and White Feminism
Streep’s career encapsulates the mid-to-late 20th century ideal of American whiteness as aspirational and as attainable.
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How to Make Reading a Habit
You tell yourself you should read more, but are you finding it hard to even pick up a book? Fret not; you’re not alone. Get yourself started one step at a time with some helpful tips from Tomas Laurinavicius at the Huffington…
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Song of the Day: “You Never Know”
Wilco’s long career, beginning all the way back in 1994, has taken a lot of twists and turns. The band’s identity has morphed at least a few times along the way, but the first single from their eponymous seventh studio…
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Notable Portland: 8/18–8/24
Thursday 8/18: Join PQ Monthly and the National Equality Publishers Association for the August issue release party. Jupiter Hotel, 5 p.m., free. The Neuwerk series invites Richard Braucher, Stephanie Adams-Santos, and Jamondria Harris to bring their poetry to life with…
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Your Favorite Pokémon’s Book of Life Advice
Never fear Pokémon GO-ers (and those of you who have managed to avoid the Poké-wave); the pocket monsters aren’t quite done yet—they’re writing a book. More specifically, it’s an “inspirational guide to life,” as described by Emma Oulton for Bustle. The…
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Appreciating Silence
We can best discern how loud our lives feel in the moments when we try to discipline both real and virtual decibels. As life becomes more modern with ever-advancing technology, noise builds and builds to the point where silence is…
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The Devil’s Detective and The Devil’s Evidence by Simon Kurt Unsworth
Nathan Webster reviews The Devil’s Detective and The Devil’s Evidence today in Rumpus Books.
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The President’s Summer in Letters
Check out President Obama’s reading list for summer on the Vineyard, by Sarah Begley in TIME. Books mentioned include the memoirs H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald, and William Finnegan’s Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life. Might the President be…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s all go inside the fascinating world of public transit seat fabric. Wait, why does Puerto Rico have it’s own Olympics team again? The man who created Bigfoot (was the best man of all). All hail the out of place…
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Sound Takes: Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
At once soothing and horrifying, it became for me the soundtrack of grief and hope for my wounded city and country.
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A Safe Harbor
Book clubs have long been a mainstay in literary and bookish circles. Claire Kirch, writing for Publisher’s Weekly, takes a look at how some indie bookstores have leveraged this to increase sales—thereby helping to ensure they will stay open to serve…
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Painting a Word Picture
In a column for SmokeLong’s “Why Flash Fiction?” series, author Anne Weisgerber compares writing flash fiction to painting: I realized I could craft flash miniatures that added up to something bigger if I intended them to, like dabs in a…