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Books and Writers

Three OSU writers nominated for book awards

Oregon Book Awards offers nominations to Moore, Richter and Biespiel.

Goodrich featured again on 'Almanac'

Once again — for the second time in less than a week — a poem by Corvallis writer Charles Goodrich will be featured on “The Writer’s Almanac” with Garrison Keillor. Goodrich’s poem “Truck Garden,” from his new book, will be read by Keillor buy essay online cheap on Wednesday’s edition of “The Writer’s Almanac.” You...

Corvallis poet featured on 'Writer's Almanac'

“Wild Geese,” a poem by Charles Goodrich of Corvallis, is scheduled to be read Friday on Garrison Keillor’s “The Writer’s Almanac.” The poem is from Goodrich’s new book, “Going to Seed: Dispatches from the Garden.” Click here to read Nancy Raskauskas’ recent interview with Goodrich about the new book. This marks the seventh time that...

Twitter, poetry and journalism

In Thursday’s Gazette-Times, we’ll run most of the responses to our “Goodbye 2009 Twitter Challenge,” in which we invited participants to summarize their year as if they were writing a holiday letter — but to do it in Twitter style, 140 characters or less. I struggled to edit my year down to 140 characters —...

Speaking of mistakes: Eliot, not Sand

Over the weekend, I took my wife to see the Majestic Theatre’s summer production of “All the Great Books (abridged),” and was mortified to discover that I had made a mistake in my preview story about the play that appeared in last week’s Entertainer. I wrote that the play makes a quick reference to George...

About ‘Edgar Sawtelle’

The author of "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" gives thanks to a Corvallis writer.