Ooligan Press http://ooligan.pdx.edu Hook a book from the nation's premier student-run publishing house. Wed, 16 May 2012 17:20:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Ooligan Feature: A Heart for Any Fate http://ooligan.pdx.edu/ooligan-feature-a-heart-for-any-fate/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ooligan-feature-a-heart-for-any-fate http://ooligan.pdx.edu/ooligan-feature-a-heart-for-any-fate/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 17:11:21 +0000 OoliganPress http://ooligan.pdx.edu/?p=5489 The Oregon Trail was traveled by the full range of wild-west personalities. Cowboys and Indians found themselves taking the same journey as gold prospectors and fur traders. Such travels and travails, meetings and mergers, have frequently been featured in books, film, and other media. A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon, 1845, offers [...]]]> http://ooligan.pdx.edu/ooligan-feature-a-heart-for-any-fate/feed/ 0 Leni Zumas, The Listeners, and Powell’s Indiespensables http://ooligan.pdx.edu/leni-zumas-the-listeners-and-powells-indiespensables/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=leni-zumas-the-listeners-and-powells-indiespensables http://ooligan.pdx.edu/leni-zumas-the-listeners-and-powells-indiespensables/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 13:00:56 +0000 Amreen Ukani http://ooligan.pdx.edu/?p=5453 Leni Zumas is the author of the short story collection Farewell Navigator and a forthcoming novel from Tin House, The Listeners. The Listeners is Powell’s latest Indiespensable title, and Zumas will be reading at Powell’s this Wednesday, May 16, to celebrate its launch.

I’m looking forward to reading The Listeners, which is about failing musician [...]]]> http://ooligan.pdx.edu/leni-zumas-the-listeners-and-powells-indiespensables/feed/ 1 Feature Friday: The Survival League http://ooligan.pdx.edu/feature-friday-the-survival-league/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feature-friday-the-survival-league http://ooligan.pdx.edu/feature-friday-the-survival-league/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 13:00:19 +0000 OoliganPress http://ooligan.pdx.edu/?p=5365 The Survival League, by Gordon Nuhanović, is a wonderful collection of short stories that will haunt readers with the ghosts of war. Filled with imagery of conflict juxtaposed with the background of everyday life, the collection is a sorrowful look at the lives of Croatian citizens. It is filled with imagery of the Croatian War [...]]]> http://ooligan.pdx.edu/feature-friday-the-survival-league/feed/ 0 The Stumptown Comics Fest for Book Loyalists http://ooligan.pdx.edu/the-stumptown-comics-fest-for-book-loyalists/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-stumptown-comics-fest-for-book-loyalists http://ooligan.pdx.edu/the-stumptown-comics-fest-for-book-loyalists/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 09:16:59 +0000 Lauren Hudgins http://ooligan.pdx.edu/?p=5370 You’re a book nerd and a lover of novels. But can you be a comic book nerd and a fan of graphic novels? Purist snobbery won’t make you more educated, cultivated, or sophisticated. The Stumptown Comics Fest took place on April 28 and 29, and you should have been there. Here are a few things [...]]]> http://ooligan.pdx.edu/the-stumptown-comics-fest-for-book-loyalists/feed/ 0 Meeting Junot Diaz http://ooligan.pdx.edu/meeting-junot-diaz/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=meeting-junot-diaz http://ooligan.pdx.edu/meeting-junot-diaz/#comments Mon, 07 May 2012 13:00:58 +0000 Amreen Ukani http://ooligan.pdx.edu/?p=5331 Junot Diaz. Photo courtesy of Cornelia Coleman PSU English Department.

On April 30th, Junot Diaz spoke at PSU as part of the English Department’s annual awards ceremony, and I had the opportunity to meet him.

Diaz is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and the short-story collection Drown. [...]]]> http://ooligan.pdx.edu/meeting-junot-diaz/feed/ 1