Hello friends,
It's official--Bob Gaulke's book, Embrace Your Insignificance (Lessons Learned Teaching English in Japan) is now out. And we thought we'd throw in a bonus for anyone who wants to order it from us. If you go to our ordering page, and put one of these beauties in your shopping cart, leave a message in the Notes box and let us know which of our other 2008 books you'd like for free--that's your choice of Riley Michael Parker's brutal office comedy Our Beloved 26th or Suzanne Burns's magical and strange flipbook, Double Header. Thank you so much for your continued support. You can catch Bob in Portland at a special book release party at The Press Club on January 17th at 7:30pm. He'll be joined by another very funny travel writer, Chuck Thompson.
In other news, Elizabeth Ellen was spotlighted recently on my favorite litblog HTML Giant.
Suzanne Burns has two cool pieces in the new Dogzplot.
I have a fun batch of brand new things in the new Portland Review.

Thanks for reading. Before I wrap up, since this is probably the last blog post before 09 rolls around, I will leave you with my favorites of 2008...

Fave books: Knockemstiff, Things the Grandchildren Should Know, The Flying Troutmans, A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness, The Film Club

Fave movies: Man On Wire, Snow Angels, The Auteur

Fave CDs: Against Me!, She & Him, Vampire Weekend, Deerhoof

Fave new Portland eatery: Pine State Biscuits

Until next year,
Kevin