the back room pdx http://www.thebackroompdx.com The back room is an occasional series of presentations/symposia/bacchanals in Portland, Oregon, replete with food, drink, music, and general boisterousness garlanding the central pleasure of bright intellects voicing their excellent texts, winging it in conversation, and screening or presenting various textual and visual delights. This podcast documents the conversations that take place at the back room. 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Former Guggenheim fellow Mary Gaitskill is the author of a story collection, Bad Behavior (1988), and two novels, Two Girls, Fat and Thin (1991) and Veronica (2005). Presented in collaboration with Literary Arts. Former Guggenheim fellow Mary Gaitskill is the author of a story collection, Bad Behavior (1988), and two novels, Two Girls, Fat and Thin (1991) and Veronica (2005). Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Nest, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories (1993), and The O. Henry Prize Stories (1998). no 1:30:43 the back room with poet Lisa Robertson and artists Hadley + Maxwell http://www.thebackroompdx.com/thebackroom_documents.html#0203 Sat, 04 Nov 2006 19:03:00 -0800 the-back-room-with-poet-lisa-robertson-and-artists the back room no 1:28:19 the back room with art historian John O'Brian http://www.thebackroompdx.com/thebackroom_documents.html#0204 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:27:38 -0800 the-back-room-with-art-historian-john-obrian the back room no 1:30:36 The music of Adrian Orange from the back room with John O'Brian pt. 1 http://www.thebackroompdx.com/thebackroom_documents.html#0204 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:28:00 -0800 the-music-of-adrian-orange-from-the-back-room-with Adrian Orange no 3:37 the back room with photographer Marc Joseph pt.1 http://www.thebackroompdx.com/thebackroom_documents.html#0206 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:28:00 -0800 the-back-room-with-photographer-marc-joseph-pt1 the back room This is the first half of the conversation with photographer Marc Joseph. The following is taken from the Cooley Gallery website at Reed College: “Marc Joseph makes large scale color photographs that explore the spaces and objects of independently owned book and record stores. Growing up in Ohio in the 1970s, Joseph was first exposed to art, writing and music in the eccentric smaller book and record shops of downtown Cleveland, where Saturday afternoons were spent combing through the stacks in anticipation of a major future purchase, like his first, "London Calling," by The Clash; or studying certain talismanic book covers like George Orwell's "Animal Farm" or Allen Ginsberg's "Howl." This was the beginning of Joseph's permanent fascination with books and records: both as public artworks and as formative private experiences.” He visits Portland on the occasion of his first U.S. showing of these works, curated by Stephanie Snyder, at the Cooley Gallery at Reed College. no 1:00:09 the back room with photographer Marc Joseph pt.2 http://www.thebackroompdx.com/thebackroom_documents.html#0206 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:29:00 -0800 the-back-room-with-photographer-marc-joseph-pt2 the back room The following is taken from the Cooley Gallery website at Reed College: “Marc Joseph makes large scale color photographs that explore the spaces and objects of independently owned book and record stores. Growing up in Ohio in the 1970s, Joseph was first exposed to art, writing and music in the eccentric smaller book and record shops of downtown Cleveland, where Saturday afternoons were spent combing through the stacks in anticipation of a major future purchase, like his first, "London Calling," by The Clash; or studying certain talismanic book covers like George Orwell's "Animal Farm" or Allen Ginsberg's "Howl." This was the beginning of Joseph's permanent fascination with books and records: both as public artworks and as formative private experiences.” He visits Portland on the occasion of his first U.S. showing of these works, curated by Stephanie Snyder, at the Cooley Gallery at Reed College. no 1:06:29 The music of Jesse Durost from the back room with Marc Joseph http://www.thebackroompdx.com/thebackroom_documents.html#0206 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:33:40 -0800 the-music-of-jesse-durost-from-the-back-room-with Jesse Durost no 35:19 Writing Portland: the back room with authors and editors John Trombold and Peter Donahue http://www.thebackroompdx.com/thebackroom_documents.html#0207 John Trombold and Peter Donahue are the editors of Reading Portland and, previously, Reading Seattle, anthologies that collect the texts elicited by these cities (dating back to their founding). Both books offer a glimpse of that most outlandish and unlikely of things: the willful self-invention of a city. They document the evolving narratives that, to begin, almost single-handedly constituted these cities, and that now function as essential tools for enacting and inspecting the meanings and possibilities of two very divergent places.

We discussed the way a city writes itself, the ways that writing can shape the future of a city, and the marked differences Trombold and Donahue found between the literature of Portland and the literature of Seattle.

Among the writers collected are Ursula K. Le Guin, Chuck Palahniuk, Sallie Tisdale, John Reed, D. Lee Williams, Katherine Dunn, Walt Curtis, Charles D&qout;Ambrosio, Carl Abbott, Kathryn Hall Bogle, Michael Munk, Beverly Cleary, Robin Cody, Lawson Fusao Inada, Rudyard Kipling, Joaquin Miller, Sandy Polishuk, Gary Snyder, Kim Stafford, Peter Rock, Elizabeth Woody, Sherman Alexie, Jonathan Raban, Betty MacDonald, John Okada, Monica Sone, Richard Hugo, Matt Briggs, Rebecca Brown, Murray Morgan, Nancy Wilson Ross (some of whom will be in attendance), and many more.

]]> Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:28:30 -0700 writing-portland-the-back-room-with-authors-and-e the back room John Trombold and Peter Donahue are the editors of Reading Portland and, previously, Reading Seattle, anthologies that collect the texts elicited by these cities (dating back to their founding). Both books offer a glimpse of that most outlandish and unlikely of things: the willful self-invention of a city. They document the evolving narratives that, to begin, almost single-handedly constituted these cities, and that now function as essential tools for enacting and inspecting the meanings and possibilities of two very divergent places. We discussed the way a city writes itself, the ways that writing can shape the future of a city, and the marked differences Trombold and Donahue found between the literature of Portland and the literature of Seattle. Among the writers collected are Ursula K. Le Guin, Chuck Palahniuk, Sallie Tisdale, John Reed, D. Lee Williams, Katherine Dunn, Walt Curtis, Charles D&qout;Ambrosio, Carl Abbott, Kathryn Hall Bogle, Michael Munk, Beverly Cleary, Robin Cody, Lawson Fusao Inada, Rudyard Kipling, Joaquin Miller, Sandy Polishuk, Gary Snyder, Kim Stafford, Peter Rock, Elizabeth Woody, Sherman Alexie, Jonathan Raban, Betty MacDonald, John Okada, Monica Sone, Richard Hugo, Matt Briggs, Rebecca Brown, Murray Morgan, Nancy Wilson Ross (some of whom will be in attendance), and many more. no 1:01:39 Friendship: the back room with Bill Ray and Christopher Zinn http://www.thebackroompdx.com/thebackroom_documents.html#0301 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:28:40 -0700 friendship-the-back-room-with-bill-ray-and-christ the back room What is more titillating than the romance of a new friendship, or more heart-breaking than losing the confidence of a beloved friend? A pervasive nostalgia has deflated public expression of this astonishingly important aspect of our lives. Friendships transform regularly, shifting and morphing and often leading to erotic desire and dreams of jealousy and revenge. For this very special evening, the back room has invited two distinguished minds and dear friends--Christopher Zinn and Bill Ray--to share a public conversation on the nature of Friendship, perhaps the most precious and precarious of social relations. no 1:22:23 The music of Gay Deceivers from the back room with Bill Ray and Christopher Zinn http://www.thebackroompdx.com/thebackroom_documents.html#0301 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:40:00 -0700 the-music-of-gay-deceivers-from-the-back-room-with Gay Deceivers no 5:05 The Wife, The Mistress, and the Prostitute: the back room with the editors of PLAZM magazine http://www.thebackroompdx.com/thebackroom_documents.html#0302 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:26:48 -0800 the-wife-the-mistress-and-the-prostitute-the-ba the back room PLAZM / Portland's most notorious independent art, design and publishing organ sheds the office for a back room evening about design, language, survival, protest and collaboration! PLAZM founder and creative director Joshua Berger converses with PLAZM magazine editors Tiffany Lee Brown and Jon Raymond, and back room host Stephanie Snyder. Come discover why this evening is affectionately titled: Wives, Mistresses and Prostitutes. yes 1:31:44 The music of Tara Jane O'Neil from the back room with PLAZM http://www.thebackroompdx.com/thebackroom_documents.html#0302 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:30:00 -0800 the-music-of-tara-jane-oneil-from-the-back-room-w Tara Jane O'Neil no 14:31 Historian and Reed College Professor Darius Rejali in conversation with writer and activist Martha Gies http://www.thebackroompdx.com/thebackroom_documents.html#0303 Fri, 09 Feb 2008 19:30:00 -0800 the-music-of-tara-jane-oneil-from-the-back-room-w Darius Rejali and Martha Gies no 14:31