Journalism: My work has appeared in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Globe & Mail (Canada), The Times- Picayune (New Orleans), The Oregonian, and Willamette Week, as well as in magazines including Details, Vogue, Publishers Weekly, and Portland Monthly.
Publishing: Tight Shot, my first novel, was nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America. Its sequel, Hot Shot, was roundly ignored by everyone, but was a far better book. I'm also a member of the National Book Critics Circle.
Stage: I was a member of the Groundlings and Circle Repertory West in Los Angeles, and am a playwright (see "Stage" in the right-hand rail).
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We've written before about the things that can happen when a paper like the Portland Tribune fires its copyediting staff to save a few bucks. Another example:
Automated spellcheck; it'll be the death of you yet, or at least the source of pubic humiliation.
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Patty Friedmann: A Little Bit Ruined
One of the first post-Katrina novels, and probably destined to be one of the best. Friedmann's sequel to Eleanor Rushing finds her crazy heroine still holding everything together after the storm (after a fashion), until she has to leave New Orleans and she falls apart physically as well as mentally. Mordantly, morbidly funny.
Tom Piazza: Why New Orleans Matters
The best post-Katrina book I've read. In 150 small pages, Piazza explicates the New Orleans experience simply and beautifully. I'll be passing this one on to anyone who wonders "But why would anyone want to live there?".
I think the Tribune has provided a valuable pubic service. Portland really suffers from lack of pubic support. I know I could use some. I love it that the Tribune is helping spread the word on this important pubic matter.
Posted by: Lizzy Caston | August 18, 2008 at 10:40 AM
Huh-huh, huh-huh ... you said "spread" ... huh-huh, uh-huh.
For those of us raised in Britain ... fnarr!
Posted by: Samuel John Klein | August 18, 2008 at 05:06 PM
At least it marks the Tribune as an adult pubication.
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Well, gosh! I've always wondered where you could get pubic support. Now I know. Portland!!! Do they fire these people?
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Please god let them invoke the "we're just keeping Portland weird" defense. For the love of Matt Davis.
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