By Matthew Robinson Through the move out of his own emotions and into the emotions of his characters, Matthew Robinson began to understand the fiction he was creating.
By Alex Dannemiller Lily Brooks-Dalton talks about capturing the sense of seclusion among others, the use of memories in fiction, and how navigating the process of writing a novel is like playing chess.
By Pete Tothero It's no accident Young Frankenstein was Mel Brooks' high point as a film director. In a new book, he and others describe the talent and inspiration that went into making the movie.
Adelina Film and Art Books gets some press.
By Patrick McGinty Paul Martone's Late Night Library was an indefatigable ally to writers, publishers, and literary citizens of all stripes.
We had a party Tuesday evening. Partly in a tent.
By Patrick McGinty Election Day will be Hillary Clinton's 577th day of campaigning. Many people wanted this number to be much, much larger.
We teased them last week, but we must now admit that the crew charged with opening Propeller's new project, Adelina Film and Art Books, managed to make a bookstore in time for the grand opening event last weekend.
By Ethan DeWeese When a film professor at UCLA gets a mysterious package from Stanley Kubrick fifteen years after Kubrick's death, he shares the package's contents with his student. The result is entry into a real-world puzzle designed by the brilliant director to test the knowledge and skill of any fan.
This fall's Propeller Books title is The Horse Latitudes by Matthew Robinson. It's out October 25th and we'll be having a party that evening in Propeller's new bookstore, Adelina Books. (Though as noted in the article below, current photos of the Adelina Books space are...interesting.)
The "Beyond the Fort" section of Boys Fort—which includes Adelina Books, our film and art bookstore—has its grand opening event Sunday, October 9. Though judging from photos sent from the Adelina Books space last night, they still, um...have some work to do.
By Patrick McGinty Why a particular line in each of three books will linger in the writer's mind long after this summer is gone.
Propeller will open Adelina Film and Art Books in downtown Portland this October, because theoretical physicists recently said their math suggests our universe is possibly a hologram so you should probably just do what you want.
By Wendy Bourgeois Though art and literature may be full of fearsome tales of punishment for whores, we sense in them something aspirational.
Reviews, reflections, conversations.
Crafted, designed, choreographed, performed.
Art form of the twentieth century.
Stolen licks and backstage passes.
Investigations and lived experience.
Language, pushed.