Tag: Books

• Goodbye 2016

  It’s almost over, folks. The nightmare that was 2016 is coming to a halt. Sure, there were a few good things but let’s be real–society and the world lost its shit. But let’s try to spin back to some good stuff. A few things I feel good about lately… I talked about some of my…

  Kevin Sampsell

  December 17, 2016

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  2016, Books, Moonlight, Nashville, Snow

• The Beauty of Passing Through

  

  Oh wow. It’s like I had a summer vacation or something (yeah, right). But some cool stuff has been happening and I’m here to update! I have a new story in the City of Weird anthology! It’s a book that’s been haunting lots of Portland bookshelves lately (it’s a bestseller at Powell’s). In a book…

  Kevin Sampsell

  November 2, 2016

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  7×7, Angel Olsen, Books, City of Weird, collage, Kurtiss Lofstrom, Lit Crawl, Meredith Alling, reading, Rudy’s, Siel Ju, Wordstock

• Shelf Talker Shelf Talker Shelf Talker…

  What the heck is a Shelf Talker you ask? It’s one of those pieces of cardstock paper you see on a bookstore’s shelf that tells you when an employee really loves a book and wants to draw attention to it. I think the best bookstores are the ones full of passionate readers always willing to…

  Kevin Sampsell

  January 14, 2014

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  Annalemma, Ben Mirov, Books, Bookselling, CA Conrad, Caketrain, Chelsea Martin, Chloe Caldwell, David Ohle, Donald Dunbar, Emily Kendal Frey, Gary Lutz, Gregory Sherl, Heather Christle, Ian Svenonius, Jake Levine, Jamie Iredell, Jennifer L. Knox, Kendra Grant Malone, Kim Chinquee, Lara Glenum, Maggie Nelson, Mary Miller, Mathias Svalina, Michael Bible, Mike Topp, Myriam Gurba, On Subbing, Paul Fattarusso, Powell’s, Publishing, Riley Michael Parker, Shelf Talkers, Small Press, Spork, Steven Jesse Bernstein, Tin House, Zach Plague