Because of the great response of our fantastic readers to the BVC Book Blast, the sale has been extended through Sunday, March 24. Every book in the bookstore remains 20 percent off. You don’t have to do anything to get the … Continue reading
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Ruby and Me
Ruby and Me by Ursula K. Le Guin These pictures are of Ruby and me at the thirty-fifth Wild Arts Festival, an annual craft fair and book sale for the Portland Audubon Society. I attend to sign books for the … Continue reading
My husband recently entered a bake-off among the cast and crew of Motown: The Musical at the Oriental Theater in Chicago. Bless his heart, he felt he should enter my corn bread. I told him, Hey, it’s just the Better Homes & Gardens cookbook recipe. Then he made a couple of batches just for rehearsal. Turns out, it’s kind-of not their recipe after all. The differences are mostly in the process, plus, more butter. So here it is.
Continue readingThis year three Book View Cafe members are participating in the Clarion West and Clarion write-a-thons. Vonda N. McIntyre and Nancy Jane Moore are writing for Clarion West and Amy Sterling Casil is writing for Clarion. The write-a-thons are fundraisers … Continue reading
We are very pleased to announce that David Levine’s Hugo-winning short story “Tk’Tk’Tk” has been adapted into a short play, which will be presented as part of an evening of “Brave New Sci-Fi” at the Jack London Bar in Portland, Oregon on April … Continue reading
This blog post is included in: No Time to Spare Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin Introduction by Karen Joy Fowler December 5, 2017 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt … Continue reading
Portland Playhouse and Hand2Mouth Theatre team up to stage a new adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1969 gender-bending tale of love, jealousy, power and betrayal. Sometimes, we have to leave our own time and place to understand ourselves. Hand2Mouth Theatre and … Continue reading
It’s Mad Scientist Week, and I couldn’t stay away. I love mad scientists. Scratch that–I adore mad scientists. Around Book View Café, I’m unofficially known as Igor, and my icon on our in-house bulletin board system is a picture of … Continue reading
Today marks the release of John Joseph Adams’s anthology The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination, so we’re declaring February 19, 2013 Mad Scientist Day at Book View Café! In honor of this festive occasion, as a Mad Scientist Day … Continue reading
September 27, 1980 We met when I called him up to invite him to meet my roommate. … Continue reading