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Young Adult Gothic Romance

Local Author April Genevieve Tucholke churns out darkness and beauty for young readers
Christie Hinrichs

In her debut young adult novel, “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea,” April Genevieve Tucholke (pronounced two-HALL-key) weaves together a crumbling seaside estate, a handsome and mysterious stranger and a bookish young girl ready to be swept off her feet in the time-tested manner of all great gothic romances. The result is a […]

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Writing Westward

An interview with Jess Walter
Christie Hinrichs

Jess Walter is the bestselling author of “Beautiful Ruins,” a novel that dominated “best of” lists in 2012 and continues to charm readers of every stripe. His latest work, a collection of short stories called “We Live in Water,” illuminates the hard knocks experienced by Pacific North Westerners with stories that his friend, Central Oregon […]

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Screaming Stella, Then Writing About It

Two Oregon Book Award Winners in Bend
Christie Hinrichs

From recently named Oregon Book Award winners come two vibrant books in the nonfiction and young adult genres. Elena Passarello’s collection of essays, “Let Me Clear My Throat,” takes as its subject the whys and hows of voice—a deconstruction of the ways in which sounds express and shape who we are. Kari Luna’s debut novel, […]

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Cabin in the Woods

Louise Ruddle Talbot and David Talbot go all Thoreau
Christie Hinrichs

Maybe there’s an instinct that compels us toward the wild, even as our daily lives become more domesticated. Or, maybe amid the technological blur of modern America, it is an urge toward an “authentic life.” In either case, contemporary readers will find much to admire in “The Cabin: A Tandem Memoir of Life in the […]

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The Source’s 2014 Fall Fiction Competition

Have your writing published in the newspaper
Avatar photo Brianna Brey

Calling all writers! Send a fictional short story based on one of the below prompts to the Source Weekly for a chance to be published in the paper and win awesome prizes. Read the guidelines below and submit to fiction@bendsource.com Choose from one of the following prompts: “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been […]

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Poetry Isn’t Just for the Birds

Central Oregon Poetry Cell present men who love prose and verse
Christie Hinrichs

For nearly a decade, Larry Jacobs, Don Kunz, John Kvapil, Peter Lovering and John Martin have been meeting weekly to collaborate on their mutual hobby. It’s not fly-fishing or custom cabinetry. Not classic cars or Texas Hold ‘Em or beer. They find themselves more often in bookstores than bars, and spend a good deal of […]

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Books of Bend

Read and meet local authors at the Deschutes Public Library
Christie Hinrichs

Jane Austen said that every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of spies. This week, a few literary “spies” will gather at the Deschutes Public Library to celebrate the fiction and nonfiction written in and around Central Oregon. With material ranging from post-apocalyptic fiction to naughty romance to small town memoir, there’s something for everyone […]

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Fighting with Demons

The post-traumatic struggle in Jennifer Percy’s Demon Camp: A Soldier’s Exorcism
Christie Hinrichs

Several years ago, when newspapers were just announcing a “suicide epidemic” among soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, Jennifer Percy—who grew up in Central Oregon, and whose brother Benjamin Percy is also an acclaimed author (Red Moon)—began to wonder how one survives in the aftermath of such deep personal trauma, forever haunted by it. Thus […]

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