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Indie press seeking viable business model since 2009. Sling books, movies, and gifts in PNW-focused company store at Urbanite in Portland, OR.
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I’ve had some time on my hands this summer. @propellerbooks.bsky.social
A diamond painting of the cover of Survival Tips.
August 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Didn’t win but was a boss at Photo Booth. @propellerbooks.bsky.social @literaryarts.bsky.social
Me in Photo Booth w friends including Leslie Barnard Booth 2x children’s book finalist. Me in Photo Booth w kid & husband. Me in Photo Booth w FICTION WINNER Kimberly King Parsons Me in Photo Booth w dear friend and colleague and nonfiction finalist @courtneythorsson
April 29, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Show me your #independentbookstoreday #indiebookstoreday pics!

Here’s me in my guest bookseller uniform at Cottage Groove Book.
A photo of me in my @propellerbooks T-shirt holding Survival Tips at Cottage Groove books.
April 27, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Tuesday poem #629 : Louise Akers : To a career hunter / @propellerbooks.bsky.social ;
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Tuesday poem #629 : Louise Akers : To a career hunter
Appraising as if only  for insurance purposes  some keening squirrel, my sight hound  guarantees the regular abandonment  ...
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April 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Louise Akers / @propellerbooks.bsky.social ;
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Louise Akers
Louise Akers is a poet living in Brooklyn, NY. She is a PhD student in English at NYU and is the co-organizer of the small press and workin...
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April 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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I wrote about Title VI, a Department of Ed program that changed my life & gave students across the country a chance to learn about the world. Some asshole lawmakers have always hated it. Thanks to DOGE, it's basically dead. Don't count on university admins to fill the void. time.com/7269589/depa...
A Department of Education Office Changed My Life. Now It's Been Cut
Novelist Lydia Kiesling on lost jobs and possibilities
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March 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Baby’s first birthday! @propellerbooks.bsky.social
A bright yellow cover of Survival Tips beside two copies with spines out on the shelf of The Propeller Store.
March 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Today's small good news: SURVIVAL TIPS (@propellerbooks.bsky.social) is a library ebook. I didn't know it was a library ebook!

Available on @libbyapp.bsky.social & Library 2 Go, at least in Oregon.
Screenshot of the Survival Tips page of Library2go. 0 of 1 copy is available. Big green "Place a Hold" button next to black and white "Read a Sample" button.
March 3, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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A packed house in Seattle to launch "Criminals," Ben Masaoka's novel of a postwar Japanese American family published by @propellerbooks.bsky.social of Portland. Ben felt a connection with novelist John Okada, and we could hear it in our readings today of Ben's work. resisters.com/2025/02/02/c...
“Criminals,” a novel in the spirit of John Okada
Before a packed house on February 2 at mam’s bookstore in Seattle Chinatown, I was honored to help launch Criminals, the debut novel by Ben Masaoka of Seattle of a postwar Japanese American f…
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February 3, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Our reading assignments are set. Come down this Sunday 2/2 at 2:00 pm to mam's books in Seattle Chinatown to learn about a Seattle author you've never heard of before and his novel from @propellerbooks.bsky.social and his admiration for the work of John Okada. There will be food! Catered by Sophon.
book cover of Criminals
January 31, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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miriamgershow.bsky.social
So frigging thrilled about this news.

TY, @literaryarts.bsky.social!
TY, @propellerbooks.bsky.social & the brilliant Dan DeWeese.
Oregon Book Awards 2025 Finalists banner with covers of 33 books, including Survival Tips. "KEN KESEY AWARD FOR FICTION Judges: Kevin Brockmeier, Lauren Grodstein, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Miriam Gershow of Eugene, Survival Tips: Stories (Propeller Books) Victor Lodato of Ashland, Honey (Harper/HarperCollins Publishers) Kimberly King Parsons of Portland, We Were the Universe (Knopf/Penguin Random House) Charlie J. Stephens of Port Orford, A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest (Torrey House Press) Willy Vlautin of Scappoose, The Horse (Harper/HarperCollins Publishers)"
January 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Congratulations, @miriamgershow.bsky.social! Survival Tips has been named an Oregon Book Award finalist for the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction.
January 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Join us in one week at mam's books in Seattle Chinatown for WRITERS READ BEN MASAOKA’S posthumously-published debut novel, “CRIMINALS”
Sunday, February 2, 2025
2:00-4:00 pm PST
Mam’s Books
Free and open to the public.
Join Frank Abe, Lucy Tan, Carla Crujido, Bruce Rutledge, and Dan DeWeese.
January 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM