Reading Frenzy at Holocene: March 5 | Corin Tucker, The Golden Bears
March 1, 2009 — PDXPIPELINESee, hear, smell! Taste the magic: Corin Tucker, Carrie Brownstein, Willy Vlautin, Golden Bears are ready to serve: THURSDAY, MARCH 5th, 8:30PM
by Arthur Smid
Food is the number one earthly necessity, but after a few milenia of hunting and gathering, a near second is literature. It's soul food. An endless and intimate resource with a personal voice. Being involved in a literary life, you start thinking like a chef. This is good: how is it made? My forays led to the copy machine, folding and stapling paper into little books.
With a hundred neatly packaged tomes, I started selling. Lucky for me, there's a retail outlet that caters independently produced books, magazines, comics, zines, cards, and CDs. Reading Frenzy is conveniently near Powell's, just head down the way along SW Oak past Rocco's Pizza.
“Our goal is not to scale up to the mass-market,” retailer Chloe Eudaly explains. The small press movement is slow food. “It's labor intensive and done for the love of it. The goal is to make special, hand-made, limited edition books.”
The table is set for a feast at Holocene: March 5th.
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