{"id":802,"date":"2015-07-18T12:55:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T16:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=802"},"modified":"2015-07-18T12:55:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T16:55:14","slug":"new-york-city-blog-from-portland-july-12-july-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"New York City Blog from Portland July 12 – July 18"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I asked the UPS store manager to reproduce The Lemrow Mystery cover 2′ x 2′ to be used as a table covering at the NW Book Fair on July 25. Here is the work of art. Move over, Leonardo.<\/p>\n

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I went to the Tualatin public library in a Portland suburb to the NW Writers and Publishers Association to network and to meet other writers presenting at the Book Fair. R. H. Sheldon gave a very interesting and illuminating talk about writers who ignored writing taboos and produced great literature. Two examples were Alice Munro\u2019s use of the passive voice and Mark Twain writing in dialect and about the poor. The library is enchanting, packed with books rather than computers, although those are well represented. There are cozy nooks and corners for people of all ages to curl up with a book or to daydream.<\/p>\n

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Powell\u2019s City of Books has many talks about\u2026books! On July 13, a native Oregonian, Dawson Barrett, talked about Becoming Oregon<\/em>, his book about Oregon between 1804, the Lewis and Clark expedition and 1905, the exposition, or World\u2019s Fair held in Portland. He explored Oregon as a territory and then as a state (1859) through newspapers ( the NY Times thought Oregon state hood was a bad idea), magazines, engravings, pictures and maps. Amusing anecdotes accompanied the U. S. and England’s fascinated ignorance about the northwest.<\/p>\n

I made my annual pilgrimage to a friend’s elegant garden.Once again, she patiently identified flowers and shrubs for my ignorant eye. In addition to roses in the city of roses, there are many other varieties. It\u2019s heartening to see and hear the bees.<\/p>\n

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