Culture
Summer Reads 2021: Street Roots vendors’ book picks
SUMMER READS 2021 Street Roots’ picks Kids’ picks Advocacy leaders’ picks Vendors’ picks Bookseller’s picks We asked Street Roots staff, vendors, contributors, volunteers and their kids, as well as local advocacy leaders, to recommend books for summer reading. Here are the Street Roots vendors' picks. They are also all available through local booksellers and the…
Summer Reads 2021: Street Roots’ book picks
SUMMER READS 2021 Street Roots’ picks Kids’ picks Advocacy leaders’ picks Vendors’ picks Bookseller’s picks Summer is here, and with it comes plenty of opportunities to relax among Oregon’s many spectacular outdoor spaces. And what better way to do that than with a good book in hand? We asked Street Roots staff, vendors, contributors, volunteers…
Summer Reads 2021: Kids’ book picks
SUMMER READS 2021 Street Roots’ picks Kids’ picks Advocacy leaders’ picks Vendors’ picks Bookseller’s picks We asked Street Roots staff, vendors, contributors, volunteers and their kids, as well as local advocacy leaders, to recommend their favorite recently published books. Here are the kids' recommendations for middle-grade fiction with a social justice theme. They are all available…
Summer Reads 2021: Advocacy leaders’ book picks
SUMMER READS 2021 Street Roots’ picks Kids’ picks Advocacy leaders’ picks Vendors’ picks Bookseller’s picks We asked Street Roots staff, vendors, contributors, volunteers and their kids, as well as local advocacy leaders, to recommend their favorite recently published books. And, being that this is a Street Roots reading list, the books listed here have a…
Summer Reads 2021: Picks from your local book purveyor
SUMMER READS 2021 Street Roots’ picks Kids’ picks Advocacy leaders’ picks Vendors’ picks Bookseller’s picks Keith Mosman has worked in bookstores, off and on, for 20 years. He grew up east of Seattle, and his first bookstore job was at a Borders in Redmond, Washington. He’s been with Powell’s Books since 2012 in a variety…
Author Emilly Prado: ‘As long as you’re writing, you’re a writer’
SUMMER READS: Book recommendations from Street Roots' staff, vendors, volunteers, kids and friends. How do different facets of your identity overlap and interact with each other? This is one concept among many that Emilly Prado explores in her debut collection of personal essays. “Funeral for Flaca” delves into the impact of relationships, provides a nostalgic snapshot…
These Portland indie bookstores survived COVID-19, thanks to ingenuity and community support
SUMMER READS: Book recommendations from Street Roots' staff, vendors, volunteers, kids and friends. On June 20, Michelle Lewis and Charles Hannah celebrated the grand opening of Third Eye Books Accessories & Gifts, the only Black-owned brick-and-mortar bookstore in Oregon. The couple got their start at local markets and street fairs in 2018, vending T-shirts and used…
Book Excerpt | ‘Demystifying Shariah’ by Sumbul Ali-Karamali
Reprinted with permission from Beacon Press. SUMMER READS: Book recommendations from Street Roots' staff, vendors, volunteers, kids and friends. European colonial officials arrived in Muslim lands in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and began criticizing the treatment of Muslim women there. Many of these officials had decried feminism in their own countries, actively opposing women’s suffrage;…
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Summer Reads 2021: Street Roots’ book picks
SUMMER READS 2021 Street Roots’ picks Kids’ picks Advocacy leaders’ picks Vendors’ picks Bookseller’s picks Summer is here, and with it comes plenty of opportunities to relax among Oregon’s many spectacular outdoor spaces. And what better way to do that than with a good book in hand? We asked Street Roots staff, vendors, contributors, volunteers…
Summer Reads 2021: Kids’ book picks
SUMMER READS 2021 Street Roots’ picks Kids’ picks Advocacy leaders’ picks Vendors’ picks Bookseller’s picks We asked Street Roots staff, vendors, contributors, volunteers and their kids, as well as local advocacy leaders, to recommend their favorite recently published books. Here are the kids' recommendations for middle-grade fiction with a social justice theme. They are all available…
Summer Reads 2021: Advocacy leaders’ book picks
SUMMER READS 2021 Street Roots’ picks Kids’ picks Advocacy leaders’ picks Vendors’ picks Bookseller’s picks We asked Street Roots staff, vendors, contributors, volunteers and their kids, as well as local advocacy leaders, to recommend their favorite recently published books. And, being that this is a Street Roots reading list, the books listed here have a…
Summer Reads 2021: Picks from your local book purveyor
SUMMER READS 2021 Street Roots’ picks Kids’ picks Advocacy leaders’ picks Vendors’ picks Bookseller’s picks Keith Mosman has worked in bookstores, off and on, for 20 years. He grew up east of Seattle, and his first bookstore job was at a Borders in Redmond, Washington. He’s been with Powell’s Books since 2012 in a variety…
These Portland indie bookstores survived COVID-19, thanks to ingenuity and community support
SUMMER READS: Book recommendations from Street Roots' staff, vendors, volunteers, kids and friends. On June 20, Michelle Lewis and Charles Hannah celebrated the grand opening of Third Eye Books Accessories & Gifts, the only Black-owned brick-and-mortar bookstore in Oregon. The couple got their start at local markets and street fairs in 2018, vending T-shirts and used…
Opinion
Kaia Sand | If nothing else, these words are our own
D.J. didn’t hesitate. “Superfluous” because it “sounds really pretty.” I said the word aloud a couple of times and appreciated how it fluttered from my lips. He then added “or supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” Sarge looked up. “That’s only been in that one book. I’ve only heard about it when people are talking about the book or movie.”…
