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“Why does one write, if not to put one’s pieces together? From the moment we enter school or church, education chops us into pieces: it teaches us to divorce soul from body and mind from heart. The fishermen of the Columbian coast must be learned doctors of ethics and morality, for they invented the word sentipensante, feeling-thinking, to define language that speaks the truth.”
Notes from a staff artist: Spent a happy evening printing a test run for the special edition cover of ARCADIA. This is just a glimpse printed on pieces of muslin. Ultimately, they will be cloth-bound hardback with book jackets and made completely by hand!
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maybeparade authors in two new cities!
while in Portland we’re elbow deep in crisp autumn apples and chimney smoke, our books are making the acquaintance of sunnier skies: we’re happy to share that readers in Los Angeles will soon be able to pick up their copies of ARCADIA by Mandana Towhidy at Skylight Books! further out into the Pacific the folks at Lawrence & Gibson Publishing Collective have published the Wellington edition of William Dewey’s THE HOMELAND OF PURE JOY (complete with new cover!)
If you’re not local to California or New Zealand (or Portland, Denver, Seattle…) you can still find all of our titles at our online store. Happy reading!
The residue of some genius comic creations soon to come…
Art Show Tonight!
Our favorite Portland artist, Azad Sadjadi, will be part of the “I Am, Therefore I Think” art opening tonight, October 25th, at the Goodfoot lounge in Portland. It’s starts at 5pm and will run through November 28th. If you’re in the Stumptown area, you should stop by!
The Details:
5pm - 12a, October 25th, The Goodfoot Lounge, 2845 SE Stark Street, Portland, Oregon 97214
Notes from a staff artist: Our first rainy weekend in a stretch compelled me to Olympia where I got to work with the artist/writer behind the comic pamphlet “Eight and a Half by Eleven” and “The Local Constabulary.” We worked up a handsome, hand-bound portfolio to house the first year’s worth of comics, which will be available soon on maybeparade(!) (However, subscriptions to the series are always available.)
I forgot my camera, so these are some sketches I made of our crafting environment. (Not pictured: a rosemary apple pie saved from an errant timer mere seconds before burning.)
