10.15.11: To Edit or Not to Edit

10.15.11: To Edit or Not to Edit

To Edit or Not to Edit By Mary Curran Hackett, Author of Proof of Heaven While writing my first novel Proof of Heaven, I worked as an editor for a small nonprofit publisher where I had already spent the better part of eight years marking up others’ manuscripts. Given...
Author Spotlight: Justin Torres

Author Spotlight: Justin Torres

We the Animals Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011 Interviewed by Diane Prokop Debut novelist Justin Torres was recently at Powell’s to read from his book We the Animals. It’s a portrait of the joys and heartbreaks of a young family made up of a white mother, a Puerto...
10.01.11: Ken Kesey as Pilgrimage

10.01.11: Ken Kesey as Pilgrimage

Ken Kesey as Pilgrimage By Ryder W. Miller Interested in gaining a better understanding of the 1960s, having hit bottom in San Francisco because of false impressions, I could not think of a better writer than Ken Kesey, except maybe Hunter S. Thompson or Tom Wolfe, to...