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A Small Needful Fact

A Small Needful Fact

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NPR Story: In Lost Essay, Langston Hughes Recounts Meeting A Young Chain Gang Runaway

NPR Story: In Lost Essay, Langston Hughes Recounts Meeting A Young Chain Gang Runaway

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Other Good Poems

Of the poetry collections I own, none is more notated, dog-eared and re-visited than the faded-blue book edited by Garrison Keillor called: Good Poems. Indeed, it was one of the first collections of poems I ever purchased. So, I was recently chastened, challenged, and properly gob-smacked upon hearing Jericho Brown’s lecture at AWP from 2017 (You can find it here). In it, he reads a searing…

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Interview: On Producing the Audiobook for At the Waterline Here is a recent interview I gave to Ooligan Press about my experience with the production of the audiobook version of At the Waterline.

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Support Your Local Bookstores with Your Audiobook Listening Thanks to Libro.fm, you can now allow your audiobook purchases to benefit your favorite brick-and-mortar bookstore.  Browse for your local bookstore on their website here:

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The Ways of White People

The Ways of White People

In Langston Hughes’ collection of short stories, The Ways of White Folks, the old is fresh and young again.

After finishing Langston Hughes’ The Ways of White Folks, I’m now convinced that Hughes is one of the most under-recognized fiction-talents of the 20th century. Whatever the critical hangups are for digging deeper into Hughes’ fiction writing, it is time to recognize the timeless poignancy…

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The audiobook version of At the Waterline is now available at many online, streaming and audiobook-membership services. If you have a subscription to one of the services below feel free to obtain the audio-novel there. My preference is that you go with Libro.fm, a service that many independent bookstores use to sell audiobooks. I encourage you to visit their list of indie bookstores and purchase At the Waterline through your local bookstore. Give your favorite brick-and-mortar bookshop a boost!

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Direct links to At the Waterline through the audiobook services listed above:

Audiobooks.com: https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/at-the-waterline-stories-from-the-columbia-river/296243

Hoopla (service used by Multnomah County library): https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11926537

Downpour: https://www.downpour.com/at-the-waterline?sp=215629

Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/354910521/At-the-Waterline-Stories-from-the-Columbia-River

Playster: https://play.playster.com/audiobooks/1001800000000168886/at-the-waterline-brian-k-friesen

B&N Nook Audiobooks: https://www.nookaudiobooks.com/audiobook/168886/at-the-waterline

Libro.fm: https://libro.fm/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=at+the+waterline

Audiobooks Now: https://www.audiobooksnow.com/audiobook/at-the-waterline-stories-from-the-columbia-river/1784035/

Book Mate (mobile app)

          Audiobook Version of At the Waterline The audiobook version of At the Waterline is now available at many online, streaming and audiobook-membership services.

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Brian K. Friesen | Eleven PDX Magazine – Music, Community, and Culture in Portland, OR.

Source: Brian K. Friesen | Eleven PDX Magazine – Music, Community, and Culture in Portland, OR.

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Watch “Brian K. Friesen Reading at Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 8/17/2017” on YouTube

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Reading in Seattle on 8/10/2017 I will be reading at Third Place Books the Lake Forest Park location, Thursday evening at 7pm in Seattle, Washington. If you go to the Third Place Books home page, you'll see Alan Alda.  And then me somewhere below that. Hope to see you there!

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On-the-Water Book Reading with Brian K. Friesen

On-the-Water Book Reading with Brian K. Friesen

On July 29th, 2017, I will be reading various nautical stories (including excerpts from my recent novel At the Waterline) from the deck of a sailboat along the west and east waterfront docks near downtown Portland.  The reading event is sponsored by the Island Sailing Club. It was recently highlighted in the Sunday Oregonian along with this author interview.

The sailboat readings on 7/29 will…

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Sign up for the "At the Waterline" Giveaway on Goodreads

Sign up for the “At the Waterline” Giveaway on Goodreads

Put your name in the hat to win a copy of my novel, At the Waterline. No cost to enter. No cost to win. No cost to receive a free novel in the mail.

I’ve entered these giveaways on Goodreads before. I got a free book once.

3, 2, 1, GO!

Goodreads Book Giveaway

At the Waterline by Brian K. Friesen

Giveaway ends July 07, 2017.

See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

Enter Giveaway

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Check out this Google Maps list of At the Waterline locations put together by Ooligan Press

Check out this Google Maps list of At the Waterline locations put together by Ooligan Press

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Support the Family of Writer, Brian Doyle, at Broadway Books - 5/31/2017

Support the Family of Writer, Brian Doyle, at Broadway Books – 5/31/2017

This last weekend, Oregon lost one of its most generous and active literary acrobats: Brian Doyle.  Please consider helping out his family in this difficult time by going to Broadway Books this Wednesday, May 31st, and purchasing as many books as you can afford to carry. A percentage of the proceeds from book sales this Wednesday will be given to his family to help offset medical and mortgage…

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Sailing Over the Horizon; Landing Someplace New - Ooligan Press

With a couple cracks of thunder, a light hail baptism, and an enthusiastic welcome from an amazing crowd, At the Waterline was launched into the world (and onto the Powell's staff picks shelf!). If you've been following our journey, you already know what Team Rivers has been up to. We helped Brian edit his manuscript, we added maps and diagrams, we dreamed up a killer marketing campaign, and we planned a citywide celebration to top it all off. At the Waterline is sailing smoothly into readers' lives, with lots of fun stops planned for the future. It's the nature of the publishing process that eventually we have to let one book go and turn our attention to the next. But before At the Waterline slips over the horizon on its world tour, I want to take a moment to acknowledge the crew that helped make her seaworthy.

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Praise for At the Waterline

Praise for At the Waterline

  “Brian is a talent, all right. Here’s a marvelous floating tribe of drifters and soul catchers, written with zest and grace at the waterline. While on board, wear a life jacket.”

—Robin Cody, author of Ricochet River and Voyage of a Summer Sun

“At the Waterline is one of those books that hooks you on the first page but then slows down to reel you in. As the seemingly mundane events unfurl in…

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At the Waterline Scavenger Hunt - This Saturday: 5/13/2017

At the Waterline Scavenger Hunt – This Saturday: 5/13/2017

As more teams are signing up, I’d just like to remind people that a few of Saturday’s challenges will be based on events that take place in the book. To get ahead of the competition, you might consider picking up a copy of #AttheWaterline at Powell’s Books, Inc. – http://www.powells.com/book/at-the-waterline-9781932010923/62-0

List of Businesses sponsoring the At the Waterline Scavenger Hunt and…

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