The polar bears are melting ! A note from a writer about his latest book.
"Hysteria over polar bears follows thirty years of hysteria over the northern spotted owl in the Pacific Northwest." says author Michael Hollister. "Polar propaganda is building upon the success of forest propaganda." He was a tenured university professor of American literature at Portland State until he was "harassed into resigning by  political radicals." In March 2000 he won a federal court ruling that protects the free speech rights of all faculty in higher education. To escape further censorship, he self-published four historical novels that "debunk
politically correct propaganda." See http://www.michaelhollister.com/
Salishan
This book, he explains, " ... is an epic of Oregon history, based upon original sources, that highlights controversial issues such as ecology and Nature. Half the novel dramatizes the saga of the spotted owl and the destructive effects of dishonest applications of the Endangered Species Act upon communities, families and national forests. Urban versus rural politics with a cast including over thirty tribes."
(OMED: The first chapter, White Coyote, is pure NW Indian myth. The second opens with narrative history from the indigenous point of view. A beached three-masted schooner is described as a dead whale with three lodgepoles sticking out of its back. The scope is from pre-European to the modern era .It's a novel. History and political theory set in a fictional mode.. Lots of characters and dialogue..If you've ever seen the classic film, How the West was Won, that, with specific focus on selected issues of interest to us, today, is roughly what he's doing, here.)
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The Summer/Fall 2008 issue of Charlie Deemer's Oregon Literary Review is now online. Poetry, videos, essays, paintings, plays and fiction will be found, here. And, don't forget Charlie's "First Wednesday" monthly artistic and literary bash at the BlackBird Wine shop in Portland. For more info, visit the site or send him a note at: charles@oregonliteraryreview.org.
Articles: Getting
to the
bottom of "Bottom Fishing"
| The Subject
was Crabs
| Surfing
for Perch (From the
archives: Winter or
summer,
fun for beach boys)
| Books: "History
by the Glass"Enters Second Round
(Portland's classic
saloons, Edition II, written by Paul Pintarich and published by Joe
Bianco.)
|
Crooked
River
Country (book review)
| Oregon Fever
Joe Bianco's anthology includes feature work by some Oregon Magazine
writers, including Larry Leonard.
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