On the Ragged Edge of Medicine
On the Ragged Edge of Medicine offers a unique and personal glimpse into a medical practice for the homeless and urban poor in Portland, Oregon...
Accidental Gravity
The compelling essays in Bernard Quetchenbach’s Accidental Gravity move from upstate New York to the western United States, from urban and suburban places to wild...
The Only Woman in the Room
Norma Petersen Paulus grew up in Depression-era poverty in Eastern Oregon. She survived a bout with polio in her teens, taught herself to be a...
My Life, by Louis Kenoyer
My Life, by Louis Kenoyer was dictated in Tualatin Northern Kalapuya by Louis Kenoyer, the last known speaker of that language. A rare, first-person narrative...
Beginner's Luck
In the late 1960s, Malcolm Terence left his job as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times to look for adventure and may have found...
Undercurrents
Undercurrents recounts the life and career of John Byrne, who started as a geologist at an oil company and retired as president of a major...
The Little Lucky
"When you live in an old house, the remodeling and rehabilitating never end. I guess the same is true when you belong to a family."...
Raw Material
Follow a sweater with an “Italian Merino” label back far enough and chances are its life began not in Milan, but in Montana. Many people...