Monica Drake recalls a brush with fame, when a famous actress took an interest in making a movie from her novel.
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Oregon’s Racist Past
Starting in the mid-19th century, and extending through the mid-20th century, Oregon was arguably the most racist place outside the southern states, possibly even of all the states.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
My Date with Hollywood
Monica Drake recalls a brush with fame, when a famous actress took an interest in making a movie from her novel.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Dark Waters
When people started stealing Oregon sturgeon from government hatcheries, people couldn’t figure out why. A native Oregonian uses the theft and her own sexual coming of age story to explore the history, life, conservation and poaching of the sturgeon, North America’s largest freshwater fish, and one of the world’s most ancient.
Posted inEditor's Pick
‘A Panel of Rubber-Stampers’
The Oregonian’s investigation into how the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court really works, and what Oregon senators are doing to challenge its authority: “The statute does not give the judge the authority to turn down applications when the criteria (for eavesdropping) are met,” Turley says. “And those criteria are so low that they are always met.” […]
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A man attempts to track down his middle school teacher and offer a long-overdue apology: Only by chance was I curious enough about the subject line — ‘Customer Feedback’ — to open the email from a man named Larry Israelson. You published an item involving retired teacher James Atteberry and the CASA program. Mr. Atteberry […]
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Top 5 #Longreads of the Week: Orion Magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine, GQ, Foreign Policy Magazine, The Oregonian, fiction from Granta, plus a guest pick from Declan Fay.
