Two different acquaintances recently e-mailed me links to Despair, Inc. I'm sure this is because I blog about quirky items, not a suggestion that I am the target customer for the Austin-based purveyor...
If I write 3,571.5 (or so) words every day for the rest of November (except Thanksgiving, when I have plans) I will be a novelist. I'm not going to make it, but not because I'm lazy. It's just that I...
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...
Oregon voters, except those in Multnomah County where Portland sits, can be bought.
Not something to be proud of, but at least it took $12 million to do it. No cheap you-know-whats here. As reported...
