As the sun went down on Wordstock, Portland's sprawling annual book festival, none of the event-goers were slowing down. If anything, the readers, writers and teachers who attended all four days...
Large gatherings of writers are normally not fun. More than two in a room are enough to make one wish for an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting instead, where more of the stories are true and no one asks...
A century later, a war of semantics engulfs the World War I-era banishment of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire. The urge to purge arose again, of course, on the U.S. West Coast during World War II. And...
Come next week it will be very quiet in Portland's independent bookstores, coffee shops, and the free-sample lines at Trader Joe's. All the writers will be at Wordstock III.
When you turn 50, the American Association of Retired Persons sends you a nice red-plastic card to show folks who might otherwise mistake you for, say, a well-preserved 49-year-old.
