
Literature


Cadenzas: A work of fiction

Q&A with Alex Kuo
Where did the idea for Cadenzas come from? What inspired you to write it? And how long did it take?
Four years ago at the age of 79 and aware of how much background work my previous novels have demanded, I was pretty sure that this one, Cadenzas, would be my last novel. Add to that my recollection of what the Palestinian writer Edward Said thought, that the last novel an author writes is usually the one that they’ve always wanted to write, I thought this was it, this was most likely going to be my last one.
I spent several months … » More …
How Virginia Woolf’s library came to WSU

Sugar Birds

Bad Medicine

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special COLLECTIONS

Briefly noted

Sins of the Bees

Remote: Finding Home in the Bitterroots
DJ Lee
Oregon State University Press: 2020
Places can possess us. Think of the stubbled, ochre hills of the Palouse in the chaffy light of October. No place possesses me more than the landscape defined by two rivers, the Lochsa and the Selway, where the rumpled land of the Bitterroot Mountains lies in the V between them.
Nearly 20 years ago, I told the writer DJ Lee, a Regents Professor of » More …