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In Search of the Perfect Pocket Book

By Alexandra Magel

December 23, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

In Search of the Perfect Pocket Book

If you’re both a reader and regular public transit rider, you’ve had this problem: How do you take your book with you? Reading and library apps are wonderful—I use them all the time—but I always have a print book in my bag. Not every book is suitable for transit, and I’ve tried different formats and narrowed the list of books I’ll pack.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: bus, dwarsligger, flipback, flipback book, mass-market, mass-market paperback, novella, Penguin Mini, pocket book, small book, tiny book, Tor.com, transit, travel

Backlist gets front seat for summer reading

By Pam Wells @wellsworld

July 26, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Backlist gets front seat for summer reading

Here’s a quick reading guide—and thank heavens it’s a non-election year—for #summerreading in 2017.

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: back to school, backlist, books, fiction, July 4th, Labor Day, LGBTQ, Marketing, Memorial Day, nonfiction, Oregon history, poetry, pride, school, Short Stories, summer reading, travel, young adult

Today Galleys, Tomorrow the World

By Jacoba Lawson

March 1, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Today Galleys, Tomorrow the World

Zoom in to make the image big, then commit to getting yourself a physical copy to appreciate it fully—it is gorgeous in person.

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: advanced reader copies, Andrea McDonald, At the Waterline, book cover, Brian K. Friesen, conservation, cover reveal, easter eggs, galleys, Marketing, Portland, Portlandia, publicity, Reviews, river, sailing, skull, start to finish, texture, Tourists, travel, world domination

Reading Dangerously

By Corinne Gould

October 21, 2015 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Reading Dangerously

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 […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: Allison Green, Andy Miller, blogging, books, feminism, Kait Heacock, Ooligan, Reading, Transmit Culture, travel, women writers, writing

Travelless Travel Writing

By Corinne Gould

February 18, 2015 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Travelless Travel Writing

Since 2000, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has produced an annual edition of The Best American Travel Writing, coalescing the work of a variety of notable writers the likes of Pam Houston and David Sedaris. The locations in each edition range across varying degrees of foreignness, encompassing the Chernobyl site, the walled city of Belfast, and occasionally […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: Allison Green, blogging, books, nonfiction, Ooligan, Reading, Recommendations, travel, writing

A Handy Guide to Portland’s Past and Present

By Stephanie Podmore

September 5, 2014 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

A Handy Guide to Portland’s Past and Present

If there is one Ooligan book I see around town more than any others, it’s The Portland Red Guide. The second edition of Michael Munk’s historical timeline, mapped out on our present-day city grid, seems to be a staple on book-store end caps, as well as Ikea shelves in homes and workspaces. One glance through […]

Filed Under: Backlist to the Future Tagged With: backlist, books, history, Michael Munk, Ooligan, Portland Red Guide, travel

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