I’m so excited (and very nervous 🫣) to announce that the “Bring a Grand Gesture Books storefront to Portland, Oregon” GoFundMe is live! Please share, donate, and politely harass your friends about it. I want this so bad 💕 https://t.co/gzsMGkLbPg
I've worked with both Mo and Maya. And I believe Maya, and am glad that Mo is being held accountable. The Portland music scene has a bad history of protecting abusers instead of the people they harm.
The results are in: with 92% approval, the workers at @Powells have voted to authorize a strike! What this means, what you can do to help, and what happens next… 🧵
A lot of people seem to believe that Oppenheimer never went to Japan, and never interacted with Japanese people. I'm grateful for the research that @pdparrwriter put into this piece and wish that some of these scenes were depicted in the movie
Compared to the Bird/Sherwin's masterpiece, American Prometheus, this is, to quote Kansas, "just a drop of water in an endless sea."
Still, ICYMI, a couple of years ago I went through the National Diet Library archives here in Tokyo to put this together https://t.co/nu9G7z0Y50
On Friday 7/21 at 7pm @joshuajamberson will join us at our Ravenna location to discuss his essay collection STARING CONTEST with Danny Noonan.
@PerfectDayPub
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I met @joshuajamberson at #AWP23. Check out this interview by @LillieGardner in @hippocampusmag
INTERVIEW: Joshua James Amberson, Author of Staring Contest: Essays About Eyes https://t.co/snRc12oeC1 via @hippocampusmag
“Smoldering is some word… Smoldering meant the fire inside Lee’s bone marrow was already burning.”
Seven Stories publisher Dan Simon on his friend and author of 25 years, Lee Stringer
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Today on JONESY, a special hour-long conversation with @joshuajamberson, author of STARING CONTEST: ESSAYS ABOUT EYES, from Portland’s @PerfectDayPub. Tune to @KBOO at 10:30am PT, live online at https://t.co/GruEALcs19 or on-demand after: https://t.co/AvVa2XzkUf
Gotta admit that it took a minute to fully appreciate this title. Thanks for being clever and for making space for small press books @M_Kicherer@wweek and wishing you the happiest of book birthdays @joshuajamberson
"I’ve often tried to keep music out of my personal essays and fiction. Music is a big part of my life, and I always worry that if I let it in it’ll just take over."
@joshuajamberson shared a playlist for his essay collection Staring Contest https://t.co/gQjgbS5BVk
5/16 @ 7pm — @joshuajamberson presents STARING CONTEST, his relentlessly curious series of detours through oft-ignored aspects of vision and vision loss. Joined in conversation by @elenavox.
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Powell’s workers braved today’s heat to flyer outside the Hawthorne store & let folks know that the Company *continues to offer a starting wage more than $5 below the living wage for Portland*. If you missed getting a flyer, here’s what you can do to support Powell's workers 🧵
Three months from now I'll have my MFA. Putting it out there now that I'm seeking teaching appointments (low res MFAs + conferences, etc.) Email if you're looking for someone w/solid teaching experience, a book, & CNF speciality (memoir, essay, hybrid forms, and journalism).
My first full-length essay collection comes out in May on @PerfectDayPub and I couldn’t be more thrilled. I’ll surely blab about this further, but today’s the final day of the early bird preorder sale, so I’ll just say I appreciate all you pre-orderers.
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