A small press since 2011. One book of creative nonfiction per year (or so).
Portland, OR
Joined June 2011
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My book, WORK is returning. “We are thrilled & honored to be bringing this cult classic back into print. With more than 60 pages of new material, this book has been lovingly refurbished, restructured, and reimagined.”
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I’m so excited (and very nervous 🫣) to announce that the “Bring a Grand Gesture Books storefront to Portland, Oregon” GoFundMe is live! Please share, donate, and politely harass your friends about it. I want this so bad 💕 gofundme.com/f/bring-grand-g…
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These are the poets and writers who have been murdered by Israel in Gaza. lithub.com/these-are-the-poe…
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The results are in: with 92% approval, the workers at @Powells have voted to authorize a strike! What this means, what you can do to help, and what happens next… 🧵
ALT Powell’s workers have voted to authorize a strike, 92% yes
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On Friday 7/21 at 7pm @joshuajamberson will join us at our Ravenna location to discuss his essay collection STARING CONTEST with Danny Noonan.
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📻Tune in to OPB’s “Think Out Loud” today at 12:25 pm to hear @joshuajamberson discuss Staring Contest
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I met @joshuajamberson at #AWP23. Check out this interview by @LillieGardner in @hippocampusmag
INTERVIEW: Joshua James Amberson, Author of Staring Contest: Essays About Eyes hippocampusmagazine.com/2023… via @hippocampusmag
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“Smoldering is some word… Smoldering meant the fire inside Lee’s bone marrow was already burning.”
Seven Stories publisher Dan Simon on his friend and author of 25 years, Lee Stringer
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Today on JONESY, a special hour-long conversation with @joshuajamberson, author of STARING CONTEST: ESSAYS ABOUT EYES, from Portland’s @PerfectDayPub. Tune to @KBOO at 10:30am PT, live online at kboo.fm or on-demand after: bit.ly/430dOPx
Gotta admit that it took a minute to fully appreciate this title. Thanks for being clever and for making space for small press books @M_Kicherer @wweek and wishing you the happiest of book birthdays @joshuajamberson
ALT A photograph of a newspaper review of Joshua James Amberson's book Staring Contest which is titled "The Eyes Have It."
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"I’ve often tried to keep music out of my personal essays and fiction. Music is a big part of my life, and I always worry that if I let it in it’ll just take over."
@joshuajamberson shared a playlist for his essay collection Staring Contest largeheartedboy.com/2023/05/…
ALT Staring Contest by Joshua James Amberson
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5/16 @ 7pm — @joshuajamberson presents STARING CONTEST, his relentlessly curious series of detours through oft-ignored aspects of vision and vision loss. Joined in conversation by @elenavox.
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Powell’s workers braved today’s heat to flyer outside the Hawthorne store & let folks know that the Company *continues to offer a starting wage more than $5 below the living wage for Portland*. If you missed getting a flyer, here’s what you can do to support Powell's workers 🧵
ALT Photo of six workers, standing underneath a sign that says “Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, Used and New Books”. Several of the workers are holding light blue flyers that say “Support Powell’s Workers”.
Three weeks from tonight: the release of our tenth book, featuring @joshuajamberson in conversation with @elenavox. Thanks to @Powells for hosting!
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Three months from now I'll have my MFA. Putting it out there now that I'm seeking teaching appointments (low res MFAs + conferences, etc.) Email if you're looking for someone w/solid teaching experience, a book, & CNF speciality (memoir, essay, hybrid forms, and journalism).
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Today I’ll be moderating this dream-team #AWP23 panel about being in both the literary world and the zine world. It’ll be fun!
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My first full-length essay collection comes out in May on @PerfectDayPub and I couldn’t be more thrilled. I’ll surely blab about this further, but today’s the final day of the early bird preorder sale, so I’ll just say I appreciate all you pre-orderers.
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ALT Two copies of Staring Contest: Essays About Eyes on a table. The central image is a stack of eye-shaped orbs in shades of blue, the background has brush strokes of autumnal orange in various shades, the title is at the top, and the author’s name (Joshua James Amberson) is at the bottom.
New book alert!! @joshuajamberson's STARING CONTEST: ESSAYS ABOUT EYES will be out May 16, but early birds can pre-order it now.
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ALT A photo of a stack of two copies of Staring Contest, a book with a yellow background and five blue overlapping eye-shapes descending down the middle of the page.
This novel took over my life in late 2020, when my old friend Ben casually announced he'd "written a damn book." If I've seen you since then, I've probably talked your ear off about it. So stoked its found the perfect home at @astrahousebooks
For readers of @victorlavalle and @NK_Adjei, a debut novel by Benjamin Wright set in a world in which the Black population has vanished, O/X follows the son of a famous musician in possession of a record with hypnotic qualities as he grapples with the death of his twin sister.
