Reflecting on the editing, design, production, publishing, marketing, and publicizing, of The Ghosts Who Travel With Me, Ooligan Press’s publisher Abbey Gaterud said it best: “Allison was so easy.” As budding publishing professionals, we have already been spoiled with the kind of self-sufficient, hard working, open-minded, enthusiastic, communicative author embodied by Allison—the kind of author […]
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Reading Dangerously
By Corinne Gould
I first discovered the phrase “reading dangerously” one year ago while browsing the stacks at Powell’s Bookstore. Andy Miller’s The Year of Reading Dangerously caught my eye, and as I leafed through the pages, I gathered that I was holding a memoir of sorts. The story chronicles Miller’s consumption of fifty lofty titles, like Middlemarch […]
The Birth of a Book
By Corinne GouldThe launch of The Ghosts Who Travel with Me was marked with the excitement and celebration befitting the hard work and creativity that went into it. The big event was held in Seattle’s Elliott Bay Book Company and was attended by Ooligan students and fans of Allison Green’s work, both old and new. A few […]
Goldie-Oldies: Nostalgia in Literature and Radio
By Kristin Choruby
In Allison Green’s unconventional travel memoir, The Ghosts Who Travel with Me, nostalgia is a running theme. Green devotes just as much time to journeying down memory lane as she does to retracing the famous trout-fishing trip of sixties counterculture writer Richard Brautigan. The Ghosts Who Travel with Me lovingly describes Green’s golden memories of […]
Growing with Ghosts: An Update on Allison Green
By Brooke Horn brookesedai
It’s a big day for Ooligan Press: The Ghosts Who Travel With Me, written by Allison Green, is going to press. It’s also the day of the Lambda Award Ceremony. Often referred to as the Lammys, they are arguably one of the most important book awards in the industry. It is a great honor to […]
They Like Us!
By Ariana Marquis
Exciting news from the last few weeks—all that work we did soliciting reviews for The Ghosts Who Travel With Me is starting to pay off! We got a fantastic review from Mensah Demary at Four Culture.. It was thorough, thoughtful, and heartfelt, and he loved the book! He noted particularly how the themes in Ghosts […]