• Braving the Days: The Seasons Are Changing by Jordannah Elizabeth

      It’s only early August and there’s a briskness to the air on the East Coast. Last year, there was blistering heat, and I craved the cool, foggy days of San Francisco, but this season has changed, and so have I. I mean, on a fundamental level I have not. I was talking to my…

  • Powell’s Bookmarks: On Leaving Portland by Andrew Woods

    Powell’s Bookmarks: On Leaving Portland by Andrew Woods

    A few weeks ago, I re-watched the 2002 Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze movie Adaptation, which seemed to be playing at the local cinema as part of a Nicholas Cage retrospective. Cage plays the screenwriter Kaufman as he struggles to adapt Susan Orlean’s mesmerizing book The Orchid Thief into a movie. The structure of the…

  • Braving the Days: The Hermit by Jordannah Elizabeth

    Well, Marlana, our editor in chief, sent over some topics to consider writing about last week. It is not that I don’t have a well of thoughts to share at the moment, but I decided to take some time and review Marlana’s thoughts and input before I went off on my own tangent. The thing…

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