Tom Booth
@tbpdx.bsky.social
Director, Oregon State University Press. Prefer gray skies but happy to be here.
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Congratulations to OSU Press finalists Judith Barrington (Virginia's Apple) and @jonathanmbach.bsky.social (High Desert, Higher Costs)! ✨✨✨
We are thrilled to announce the 2026 #OregonBookAward finalists! Join us in congratulating these incredible authors. Winners will be announced at the Oregon Book Awards Ceremony, hosted by Kimberly King Parsons on April 20. 🌟 📚
Learn more: https://lit-arts.org/oba_2026
#pdx #pdxwriters #bookawards
Learn more: https://lit-arts.org/oba_2026
#pdx #pdxwriters #bookawards
February 10, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Congratulations to OSU Press finalists Judith Barrington (Virginia's Apple) and @jonathanmbach.bsky.social (High Desert, Higher Costs)! ✨✨✨
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Arndt, who was at work on his own long novel, was also a great connecter who bound other writers warmly together: "a provider, a nurturer, a guardian angel."
Steve Arndt, ambassador of Portland’s literary community, dies at age 77 • Oregon ArtsWatch
Arndt, who was at work on his own long novel, was also a great connecter who bound other writers warmly together: "a provider, a nurturer, a guardian angel."
www.orartswatch.org
February 9, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Arndt, who was at work on his own long novel, was also a great connecter who bound other writers warmly together: "a provider, a nurturer, a guardian angel."
Landing at #10 on the inaugural Independent Press Bestseller list is Robin Kimmerer’s Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. @osupress.bsky.social finds itself in good company with titles from @yalepress.bsky.social & @princetonupress.bsky.social also making the list.
Top 40 Bestsellers — Independent Publishers Caucus
www.indiepubs.org
January 15, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Landing at #10 on the inaugural Independent Press Bestseller list is Robin Kimmerer’s Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. @osupress.bsky.social finds itself in good company with titles from @yalepress.bsky.social & @princetonupress.bsky.social also making the list.
"Telling stories while staring into a live and leaping fire is a rich and holy and lovely—and social—act that we should do more often than we do... Think of it as a way to say hey to Joe Strummer."
Joe Strummer Day - The American Scholar
Build a raging, leaping fire, okay?
theamericanscholar.org
December 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
"Telling stories while staring into a live and leaping fire is a rich and holy and lovely—and social—act that we should do more often than we do... Think of it as a way to say hey to Joe Strummer."
One of my favorite books of 2025: A Portland story about gentrification and a community that, despite being displaced, continues to gather at their neighborhood park. "I’m thankful to have met the stars of this real-life episode of King School Park, I smiled a lot. Gives me hope."
Alan Wieder — We Will Not Be Removed: The People of King School Park
Review by Lee Halvorsen • Wieder’s intimate images and skilled story telling brings persistence, permanence, place, and people to life in Portland’s King School Park. Wieder spent several yea…
photobookjournal.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
One of my favorite books of 2025: A Portland story about gentrification and a community that, despite being displaced, continues to gather at their neighborhood park. "I’m thankful to have met the stars of this real-life episode of King School Park, I smiled a lot. Gives me hope."
This season of Hush is riveting. I was listening to episode 7 on Sunday and thinking to myself: these two journalists are so damn good at what they do and how cool that it’s found a home at @opb.org. Wow, what a loss.
On the day that @opb.org CEO Rachel Smolkin posted this video, saying OPB’s funding gap of $5 million was closed, I was also told by the Chief Content Officer that Hush was canceled. Eighty percent of my income, and my health insurance - gone. I was given no reason for the cancellation. 1/x
OPB has closed this year’s $5 million budget gap created when Congress ended federal funding. Our work is not done. A strong future for free and fair journalism requires your support.
https://www.opb.org/pressroom/presidents-update-funding-cut-update-building-trust/
https://www.opb.org/pressroom/presidents-update-funding-cut-update-building-trust/
December 4, 2025 at 1:55 AM
This season of Hush is riveting. I was listening to episode 7 on Sunday and thinking to myself: these two journalists are so damn good at what they do and how cool that it’s found a home at @opb.org. Wow, what a loss.
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OSU Press holiday savings starts today! 🎉🎉🎉
Save 25% with free shipping using promo code 25HOLIDAY at osupress.oregonstate.edu now through December 19, 2025.
Find the perfect book for everyone on your list and one for yourself too! And order early to ensure delivery before the Christmas holiday. 🎁
Save 25% with free shipping using promo code 25HOLIDAY at osupress.oregonstate.edu now through December 19, 2025.
Find the perfect book for everyone on your list and one for yourself too! And order early to ensure delivery before the Christmas holiday. 🎁
November 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
OSU Press holiday savings starts today! 🎉🎉🎉
Save 25% with free shipping using promo code 25HOLIDAY at osupress.oregonstate.edu now through December 19, 2025.
Find the perfect book for everyone on your list and one for yourself too! And order early to ensure delivery before the Christmas holiday. 🎁
Save 25% with free shipping using promo code 25HOLIDAY at osupress.oregonstate.edu now through December 19, 2025.
Find the perfect book for everyone on your list and one for yourself too! And order early to ensure delivery before the Christmas holiday. 🎁
If you know anyone who might be interested in applying for the best book publishing job in Oregon, please pass this along.
Share the news... OSU Libraries & Press is seeking a Director for the Oregon State University Press! See the detailed job description at jobs.oregonstate.edu/posting....
Please reach out to us if you have any questions about the position, OSU, or life in Oregon! ☔❤️☔
#OregonStateUniversity #ApplyNow
Please reach out to us if you have any questions about the position, OSU, or life in Oregon! ☔❤️☔
#OregonStateUniversity #ApplyNow
October 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
If you know anyone who might be interested in applying for the best book publishing job in Oregon, please pass this along.
With photos of a metropolis at peace by Rian Dundon (Protest City: Portland's Summer of Rage, @osupress.bsky.social, 2023)
Why is President Trump targeting Portland? Likely because he watched a misleading Fox News report that included video of 2020 riots and presented it as happening now. We asked our intrepid photographer to brave the war zone, and here's what he captured: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...
Opinion | Leave Us Alone
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
With photos of a metropolis at peace by Rian Dundon (Protest City: Portland's Summer of Rage, @osupress.bsky.social, 2023)
The biggest threat to federal troops in Portland is off-leash labradoodles.
September 28, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The biggest threat to federal troops in Portland is off-leash labradoodles.
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Portland’s Antifa headquarters.
September 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Portland’s Antifa headquarters.
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Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1954, Neuberger was an advocate for conservation, mass transit, and mail balloting.
In ‘Richard Neuberger,’ journalist Stephen Forrester recounts the biography of a politician ahead of his time, in an Oregon hard to remember • Oregon ArtsWatch
Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1954, Neuberger was an advocate for conservation, mass transit, and mail balloting.
www.orartswatch.org
September 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1954, Neuberger was an advocate for conservation, mass transit, and mail balloting.
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Photographer Alan Wieder talks about his new book "We Will Not Be Removed: The People of King School Park" with Joseph Gallivan this week on #KBOOArtFocus
Wieder talks about photographing people in the park in gentrified Northeast Portland.
beav.es/xx7
#PortlandOregon #Photography #Community
Wieder talks about photographing people in the park in gentrified Northeast Portland.
beav.es/xx7
#PortlandOregon #Photography #Community
August 28, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Photographer Alan Wieder talks about his new book "We Will Not Be Removed: The People of King School Park" with Joseph Gallivan this week on #KBOOArtFocus
Wieder talks about photographing people in the park in gentrified Northeast Portland.
beav.es/xx7
#PortlandOregon #Photography #Community
Wieder talks about photographing people in the park in gentrified Northeast Portland.
beav.es/xx7
#PortlandOregon #Photography #Community
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It's nice to see early praise for "Richard Neuberger: Oregon Politics and the Making of a US Senator" on social.
@nickkristof.bsky.social wrote on X: "Bravo to Stephen Forrester on his powerful new biography of Neuberger, a luminous portrait of a pioneering journalist, commentator and senator."🌲❤️
@nickkristof.bsky.social wrote on X: "Bravo to Stephen Forrester on his powerful new biography of Neuberger, a luminous portrait of a pioneering journalist, commentator and senator."🌲❤️
August 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
It's nice to see early praise for "Richard Neuberger: Oregon Politics and the Making of a US Senator" on social.
@nickkristof.bsky.social wrote on X: "Bravo to Stephen Forrester on his powerful new biography of Neuberger, a luminous portrait of a pioneering journalist, commentator and senator."🌲❤️
@nickkristof.bsky.social wrote on X: "Bravo to Stephen Forrester on his powerful new biography of Neuberger, a luminous portrait of a pioneering journalist, commentator and senator."🌲❤️
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." —Ray Bradbury, born on this day in 1920
August 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." —Ray Bradbury, born on this day in 1920
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Congratulations to Elizabeth Mehren and OSU Press's copublisher The Immigrant Story for "I Lived to Tell the World" being named an Oregon Great Reads book! 🎉
Read the State Library of Oregon’s press release at beav.es/xTp.
#CenterForTheBook #NationalBookFestival #ReadUP
Read the State Library of Oregon’s press release at beav.es/xTp.
#CenterForTheBook #NationalBookFestival #ReadUP
August 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Congratulations to Elizabeth Mehren and OSU Press's copublisher The Immigrant Story for "I Lived to Tell the World" being named an Oregon Great Reads book! 🎉
Read the State Library of Oregon’s press release at beav.es/xTp.
#CenterForTheBook #NationalBookFestival #ReadUP
Read the State Library of Oregon’s press release at beav.es/xTp.
#CenterForTheBook #NationalBookFestival #ReadUP
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Kurt Fausch shares the hope "to draw [readers] into this world of what a scientist sees" in his recent work "A Reverence for Rivers."
Listen to the full conversation with Michael Simpson on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: beav.es/xiQ.
#RiverEthics #RiverEcology #Conservation #Environment
Listen to the full conversation with Michael Simpson on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: beav.es/xiQ.
#RiverEthics #RiverEcology #Conservation #Environment
July 31, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Kurt Fausch shares the hope "to draw [readers] into this world of what a scientist sees" in his recent work "A Reverence for Rivers."
Listen to the full conversation with Michael Simpson on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: beav.es/xiQ.
#RiverEthics #RiverEcology #Conservation #Environment
Listen to the full conversation with Michael Simpson on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: beav.es/xiQ.
#RiverEthics #RiverEcology #Conservation #Environment
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The elegant volume is published in connection with a retrospective show at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem.
‘C.S. Price: A Portrait’: Roger Saydack’s book is a thorough and precise chronicle of the Modernist Oregon painter • Oregon ArtsWatch
The elegant volume is published in connection with a retrospective show at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem.
www.orartswatch.org
July 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The elegant volume is published in connection with a retrospective show at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem.
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Happy Pride Month from OSU Press! 🌈
Find these books under the subject “Autobiography and Memoir” or “Women’s & Gender Studies” at www.osupress.oregonstate.edu. 📚
#Pride2025 #PrideMonth #LGBTQBooks
Find these books under the subject “Autobiography and Memoir” or “Women’s & Gender Studies” at www.osupress.oregonstate.edu. 📚
#Pride2025 #PrideMonth #LGBTQBooks
June 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Happy Pride Month from OSU Press! 🌈
Find these books under the subject “Autobiography and Memoir” or “Women’s & Gender Studies” at www.osupress.oregonstate.edu. 📚
#Pride2025 #PrideMonth #LGBTQBooks
Find these books under the subject “Autobiography and Memoir” or “Women’s & Gender Studies” at www.osupress.oregonstate.edu. 📚
#Pride2025 #PrideMonth #LGBTQBooks
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Given the week's holiday kickoff, I used my weekly essay to think about Memorial Day via Brian Doyle's wonderful essay of the same name. I hope you spend a few minutes with it.
www.adamsowards.net/being-carefu...
www.adamsowards.net/being-carefu...
Being Careful in Public
Lessons from Brian Doyle's "Memorial Day"
www.adamsowards.net
May 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Given the week's holiday kickoff, I used my weekly essay to think about Memorial Day via Brian Doyle's wonderful essay of the same name. I hope you spend a few minutes with it.
www.adamsowards.net/being-carefu...
www.adamsowards.net/being-carefu...
Ninety-five years wild. Happy birthday, Gary Snyder.
May 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Ninety-five years wild. Happy birthday, Gary Snyder.
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Happy Publication Day to Linda Ziedrich!
"First Fruits" is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press!
beav.es/Npj
#AgriculturalHistory #Horticulture #PacificCoastHistory #WestwardExpansion
"First Fruits" is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press!
beav.es/Npj
#AgriculturalHistory #Horticulture #PacificCoastHistory #WestwardExpansion
May 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Happy Publication Day to Linda Ziedrich!
"First Fruits" is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press!
beav.es/Npj
#AgriculturalHistory #Horticulture #PacificCoastHistory #WestwardExpansion
"First Fruits" is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press!
beav.es/Npj
#AgriculturalHistory #Horticulture #PacificCoastHistory #WestwardExpansion
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Happy Publication Day to Kurt D. Fausch!
"A Reverence for Rivers" is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press!
beav.es/N8E
#RiverEthics #RiverEcology #Conservation #WaterRights #Enivironment
"A Reverence for Rivers" is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press!
beav.es/N8E
#RiverEthics #RiverEcology #Conservation #WaterRights #Enivironment
May 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Happy Publication Day to Kurt D. Fausch!
"A Reverence for Rivers" is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press!
beav.es/N8E
#RiverEthics #RiverEcology #Conservation #WaterRights #Enivironment
"A Reverence for Rivers" is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press!
beav.es/N8E
#RiverEthics #RiverEcology #Conservation #WaterRights #Enivironment
Today you can help @osupress.bsky.social publish a dam good book. 🦫
April 30, 2025, is Dam Proud Day!
Historian James Harrison's long-awaited history of the city of Vanport was in progress at the time of his passing in 2022. Your gift will allow the OSU Press to produce and distribute this significant work.
Read more and give at beav.es/press-proud .
Historian James Harrison's long-awaited history of the city of Vanport was in progress at the time of his passing in 2022. Your gift will allow the OSU Press to produce and distribute this significant work.
Read more and give at beav.es/press-proud .
April 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Today you can help @osupress.bsky.social publish a dam good book. 🦫