7.16.11: A look at ZAZEN

7.16.11: A look at ZAZEN

“Every generation gets to decide its own relationship with the universe. And whether I liked it or not, this was my generation.” Although the city in ZAZEN is never named as an actual location in the U.S., it’s hard not to image it taking place in Portland, Oregon—the...
7.16.11: A look at ZAZEN

6.1.11: Fashionable Grammar

Fashionable Grammar To write is to communicate with the outside world. It’s how we explain ourselves and understand each other. In whatever form it takes, whether it be print, email, text, or tweet, writing is a representation of the self.   Incorrect grammar, or the...
7.16.11: A look at ZAZEN

5.1.2011: Why Read the Classics?

  Why Read the Classics? When I think back to high school English class, what comes to mind are all the books I pretended to read: John Knowles’ A Separate Peace, Steinbeck’s The Pearl, even Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer. Early on I found that if you listened to the...
7.16.11: A look at ZAZEN

3.17.11: A Conversation with Gina Ochsner

Oregon author Gina Ochsner’s debut novel, The Russian Dreambook of Colour & Flight, just released in paperback, is an irresistible contemporary folktale that feels something akin to MTV’s Real World—Russian-style. Instead of hip, sexy 20 to 30-somethings living in...
7.16.11: A look at ZAZEN

2.19.11: Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer

Wesley will be on tour in Portland at Powell’ Books March 6th and on Live Wire! Radio at the Alberta Rose Theater on March 4th. by Wesley Stace Picador Paperback Original, $15.00, 572 pages “Kensington Triple Tragedy / Composer Kills his Wife, Another, Commits Suicide...