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Frog on, PDX!

With photos of a metropolis at peace by Rian Dundon (Protest City: Portland's Summer of Rage, @osupress.bsky.social, 2023)

The biggest threat to federal troops in Portland is off-leash labradoodles.

Portland’s Antifa headquarters.

Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1954, Neuberger was an advocate for conservation, mass transit, and mail balloting.

Photographer Alan Wieder talks about his new book "We Will Not Be Removed: The People of King School Park" with Joseph Gallivan this week on #KBOOArtFocus Wieder talks about photographing people in the park in gentrified Northeast Portland. beav.es/xx7#KBOOArtFocus#PortlandOregon #Photography #Community

It's nice to see early praise for "Richard Neuberger: Oregon Politics and the Making of a US Senator" on social. ‪@nickkristof.bsky.social wrote on X: "Bravo to Stephen Forrester on his powerful new biography of Neuberger, a luminous portrait of a pioneering journalist, commentator and senator."🌲❤️

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." —Ray Bradbury, born on this day in 1920

Congratulations to Elizabeth Mehren and OSU Press's copublisher The Immigrant Story for "I Lived to Tell the World" being named an Oregon Great Reads book! 🎉 Read the State Library of Oregon’s press release at beav.es/xTp. #CenterForTheBook #NationalBookFestival #ReadUP

Kurt Fausch shares the hope "to draw [readers] into this world of what a scientist sees" in his recent work "A Reverence for Rivers." Listen to the full conversation with Michael Simpson on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: beav.es/xiQ. #RiverEthics #RiverEcology #Conservation #Environment

The elegant volume is published in connection with a retrospective show at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem.

Happy Pride Month from OSU Press! 🌈 Find these books under the subject “Autobiography and Memoir” or “Women’s & Gender Studies” at www.osupress.oregonstate.edu. 📚 #Pride2025 #PrideMonth #LGBTQBooks

Given the week's holiday kickoff, I used my weekly essay to think about Memorial Day via Brian Doyle's wonderful essay of the same name. I hope you spend a few minutes with it. www.adamsowards.net/being-carefu...

Ninety-five years wild. Happy birthday, Gary Snyder.

Happy Publication Day to Linda Ziedrich! "First Fruits" is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press! beav.es/Npj #AgriculturalHistory #Horticulture #PacificCoastHistory #WestwardExpansion

Happy Publication Day to Kurt D. Fausch! "A Reverence for Rivers" is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press! beav.es/N8E #RiverEthics #RiverEcology #Conservation #WaterRights #Enivironment

Today you can help @osupress.bsky.social publish a dam good book. 🦫

Happy Publication Day to Jonathan Bach (@jonathanmbach.bsky.social)! "High Desert, Higher Costs " is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press! Portland, OR Book Launch is TONIGHT! Tuesday, April 29, 7:00 pm Powell's @powells.bsky.social beav.es/Nsd

It was a challenge for @osupress.bsky.social staff to pick just one book for #EarthDay! Visit our website and browse OSU Press books in Environmental Studies, Nature, Oregon, and more. I trust it will be difficult for you to pick just one too! osupress.oregonstate.edu/ #EarthDay🌍❤️🌎

" [Katherine] Hubler's new book, 'Listening to Survivors,' brings first-hand Holocaust perspectives to a wider audience, making them more accessible." —Kallie Hagel, OSU Honors College Read more: beav.es/NAv

Publisher Laura Stanfill's ability to create community around books is a marvelous thing. Her own new book provides insight and encouragement for all writers and publishers—it's a pep talk, toolkit, and warm hug all in one. It's also a powerful reminder of why the work we do is so important.

Take 5 minutes today to show support for Oregon Humanities, which does so much to instill a sense of connection and community in our state.

"Naito was a true son of Portland. Born and raised in the city, he knew its streets and alleys, its schools and libraries, its quirks and prejudices. A relentless entrepreneur, his business was rooted in downtown Portland; he wasn’t going to let it go without a fight. " —Reed Magazine beav.es/NiE

Save the Date! Monday, March 31, 2025, at 7 pm, Johanna Ogden will be at #McMenamins Kennedy School (in partnership with #OregonHistoricalSociety ) presenting "The March 1910 St. Johns 'Anti-Hindu' Riot: Its Global Impact" for #HistoryPub! Tickets $5 in advance. www.mcmenamins.com/events/26...

Toledo, Washington. #BlueSkyArtShow #Windows

“We are literally watching our democracy slip away from us.” Amidst the thousands of federal employees fired in mass cuts are people devoting their lives to protect the #environment and #wildlife. @hobdy71.bsky.social highlights #Hawaiian #conservation workers who suddenly lost their jobs. 🌍🦤

Good work being done by our colleagues in the OSU Library.

Such an important list of titles from UW Press. Not one of their releases—it was published by Penguin—but I'm currently reading The Literature of Japanese Incarceration, edited by @frankabe.bsky.social and Floyd Cheung. The final selection in the book is entitled "Never Again is Now."

"... an all-out war on learning and knowledge, which are intimately entwined with culture and the arts, and thus with the nurturing of an informed and broadly thinking electorate."

Forward-thinking contributors to Toward Oregon 2050, new from @osupress.bsky.social, offer 3 actions that could ensure a more environmentally sustainable, socially equitable, and fiscally resilient future for our state.

Excited to have a new piece in the Chronicle of Higher Ed (@chronicle.com). I’ve been in so many exchanges with people who’ve never heard anything happy about university presses. So I wrote an essay to share with them.

McMenamins and Oregon State University Press present "Local Author Talks!" Join Johanna Ogden at the St. Johns Theater & Pub, Wednesday, February 5, at 7:00 pm, for a presentation with Q&A on her new book PUNJABI REBELS OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER. Click the link to register. Tickets $5. beav.es/Gzd

I swear this article didn't make me cry. Plus an unexpected Oregon State University connection. Read on.

We’re thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2025 #OregonBookAwards! Help us celebrate the finalists by attending the Oregon Book Awards ceremony on April 28. Check out the full list here: lit-arts.org/2025-oba-fin...

Oregon friends: we're fortunate to have in our midst The Immigrant Story, a volunteer-run nonprofit that documents the stories of immigrants and refugees. This week TIS travels to Corvallis for an exhibit and performance. Attend if you can or spend some time with the stories on their website.

Why are university presses important? A thread 🧵

Trump is obsessed with ratings. What if on Monday at noon EST—as he's about to recite the oath of office—viewers switch instead to Netflix to watch David Lynch's short film in which a detective (Lynch) interrogates a capuchin monkey accused of murder. Mumbling Trump or talking monkey? No-brainer.

“New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.” —David Lynch RIP to one of the greatest artists of our time.

Don't miss @jonathanmbach.bsky.social 's "3 Tips for Journalists: How to Write a Nonfiction Book" on the @uosojc.bsky.social 's blog. Jonathan's first book HIGH DESERT, HIGHER COSTS: BEND AND THE HOUSING CRISIS IN THE AMERICAN WEST will be available April 29th! journalism.uoregon.edu/news/...

A book I hope more Portlanders will pick up. Kudos to University of Iowa Press for bringing out Mark Pomeroy's powerful novel.

Beautifully filmed by Corvallis non-profit Freshwaters Illustrated.

A sweet year-end surprise. Congrats, Andrea. It’s well deserved.

In praise of Portland dive bars. Plus Christmas lights year round.

Beautiful piece on the lost streams of Portland.

Always an outstanding list, always a bunch of new discoveries. Grateful to the KMHD DJs for their deep listening all year long.

The OSU Press holiday sale is happening—25% off and free shipping on all titles. Treat yourself or find just the right book for that someone on your list. A few gift recs below...

"Portland’s history and present is full of important storytellers. We should build beautiful and arresting public reminders of their accomplishments, not to memorialize the past, but to inspire us all to imagine a better future."

Listening to MJ Lenderman’s She’s Leaving You dozens of times earlier this fall, it never once occurred to me that “it falls apart, we all got work to do / it gets dark, we all got work to do” was a mantra for the next four years.