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Tom Booth

@tbpdx.bsky.social
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Former publisher, bookseller, and hot dog street vendor in PDX. Prefer gray skies.

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Oregon State University Press @osupress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Happy Publication Day to Brian Libby (@brianlibby.bsky.social)! "In Search of Portland: Exploring a Transforming City" is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press! beav.es/YJJ #PortlandOregon #PortlandArchitecture #PortlandHistory #PortlandWalkingTours #ReadLocal
In Search of Portland front cover.Walking tour featured inside of In Search of Portland.In Search of Portland back cover.
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Oregon State University Press @osupress.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Happy Publication Day to Daniel Dietz! "Rare and Used: Adventures of a Book Scout's Apprentice" is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press! beav.es/YYM #bookscout #bookseller #oregonmemoir #rarebooks #usedbooks
Front cover image of the book Rare and Used.Interior photo of a praise page for the book Rare and Used.Back cover featuring descriptive copy for the book Rare and Used.List for upcoming events for book Rare and Used.
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Bird Alliance of Oregon @birdallianceoregon.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
There are no words to describe the joy this brings. A Condor back in Oregon skies. Just a lot of gratitude for all the work from the Yurok Tribe, National Park Service, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's on the Northern California Condor Restoration Program. www.oregonlive.com/environment/...
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Condor flies into Oregon for first time in over 120 years
A 2-year-old female condor named B9 traveled 80 miles through southern Oregon during a four-day journey in May, marking a historic milestone for the critically endangered species managed by the Yurok ...
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Tom Booth @tbpdx.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Heavenly singing Portland’s praises—with cameo by an orange TriMet bus, circa 1970s. They’re at the Aladdin on 6/26 touring on their first album in 30 years.
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Heavenly - Portland Town
YouTube video by Skep Wax
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Oregon State University Press @osupress.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
New OSU Press blog post features Brian Libby (@brianlibby.bsky.social) author of "In Search of Portland: Exploring a Transforming City." "Writing this book was a way of reminding myself to cherish the city we have, right now." Read more: beav.es/fdP. #PortlandArchitecture #PortlandHistory
New blog post announcement featuring author photo of Brian Libby and book cover of In Search of Portland.
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Tom Booth @tbpdx.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
A life of "creative flippancy." Godspeed, Foolbert.
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Tom Booth @tbpdx.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
So happy to have Andrea Carlisle’s The Riverhouse Stories—which Ursula Le Guin considered “the most good-natured book I ever read”—back out in the world.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Most of Portland's internal communications are conducted via bone tableaus.
skeletal bird and human sit at a bench
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Tom Booth @tbpdx.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
It's a dam fine day to support your local university press. beav.es/press-proud
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Oregon State University Press @osupress.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Congratulations to Judith Barrington for winning the Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction with her book "Virginia's Apple: Collected Memoirs"!!! 🎉🎉🎉 What an amazing night at @literary-arts.org Oregon Book Awards! Check out all of this year's winners with @orartswatch.org: beav.es/fJF.
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Oregon Book Awards: Winners include Judith Barrington, Jennifer Perrine, Ling Ling Huang, David F. Walker • Oregon ArtsWatch
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Tom Booth @tbpdx.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
On Mary Barnard's "calm, cool, careful visions" of the PNW and a new edition of her collected poems from @sunypress.bsky.social
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Robert Gumpert @ragumpert.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
PROTEST CITY Image and activism in Portland's fight against ICE RIAN DUNDON ​INTERVIEW AND PHOTOGRAPHS www.truthinphotography.org/protest-city...
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Protest City 2026
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.  Rian Dundon's photography project was produced with support from Magnum Foundation and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project .
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Oregon ArtsWatch @orartswatch.org · 16/03/2026
Owner Doug Lowell says consideration for his heirs, Gen Z's preferences, sentimentality, and civic-mindedness spurred him to open the shop.
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Kid Hermes the Trickster combines used books and art in downtown Portland • Oregon ArtsWatch
Owner Doug Lowell says consideration for his heirs, Gen Z's preferences, sentimentality, and civic-mindedness spurred him to open the shop.
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Tom Booth @tbpdx.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Exit interview.
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Oregon State University Press @osupress.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Congratulations to OSU Press finalists Judith Barrington (Virginia's Apple) and @jonathanmbach.bsky.social (High Desert, Higher Costs)! ✨✨✨
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Oregon ArtsWatch @orartswatch.org · 09/02/2026
Arndt, who was at work on his own long novel, was also a great connecter who bound other writers warmly together: "a provider, a nurturer, a guardian angel."
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Steve Arndt, ambassador of Portland’s literary community, dies at age 77 • Oregon ArtsWatch
Arndt, who was at work on his own long novel, was also a great connecter who bound other writers warmly together: "a provider, a nurturer, a guardian angel."
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Tom Booth @tbpdx.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Landing at #10 on the inaugural Independent Press Bestseller list is Robin Kimmerer’s Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. @osupress.bsky.social finds itself in good company with titles from @yalepress.bsky.social & @princetonupress.bsky.social also making the list.
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Top 40 Bestsellers — Independent Publishers Caucus
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Tom Booth @tbpdx.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
"Telling stories while staring into a live and leaping fire is a rich and holy and lovely—and social—act that we should do more often than we do... Think of it as a way to say hey to Joe Strummer."
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Joe Strummer Day - The American Scholar
Build a raging, leaping fire, okay?
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Tom Booth @tbpdx.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
One of my favorite books of 2025: A Portland story about gentrification and a community that, despite being displaced, continues to gather at their neighborhood park. "I’m thankful to have met the stars of this real-life episode of King School Park, I smiled a lot. Gives me hope."
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Alan Wieder — We Will Not Be Removed: The People of King School Park
Review by Lee Halvorsen •  Wieder’s intimate images and skilled story telling brings persistence, permanence, place, and people to life in Portland’s King School Park. Wieder spent several yea…
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Tom Booth @tbpdx.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
This season of Hush is riveting. I was listening to episode 7 on Sunday and thinking to myself: these two journalists are so damn good at what they do and how cool that it’s found a home at @opb.org. Wow, what a loss.
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Oregon State University Press @osupress.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
OSU Press holiday savings starts today! 🎉🎉🎉 Save 25% with free shipping using promo code 25HOLIDAY at osupress.oregonstate.edu now through December 19, 2025. Find the perfect book for everyone on your list and one for yourself too! And order early to ensure delivery before the Christmas holiday. 🎁
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Tom Booth @tbpdx.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
If you know anyone who might be interested in applying for the best book publishing job in Oregon, please pass this along.
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Tom Booth @tbpdx.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Frog on, PDX!
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Tom Booth @tbpdx.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
With photos of a metropolis at peace by Rian Dundon (Protest City: Portland's Summer of Rage, @osupress.bsky.social, 2023)
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Tom Booth @tbpdx.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
The biggest threat to federal troops in Portland is off-leash labradoodles.
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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Portland’s Antifa headquarters.
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Oregon ArtsWatch @orartswatch.org · 08/09/2025
Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1954, Neuberger was an advocate for conservation, mass transit, and mail balloting.
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In ‘Richard Neuberger,’ journalist Stephen Forrester recounts the biography of a politician ahead of his time, in an Oregon hard to remember • Oregon ArtsWatch
Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1954, Neuberger was an advocate for conservation, mass transit, and mail balloting.
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Oregon State University Press @osupress.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Photographer Alan Wieder talks about his new book "We Will Not Be Removed: The People of King School Park" with Joseph Gallivan this week on #KBOOArtFocus Wieder talks about photographing people in the park in gentrified Northeast Portland. beav.es/xx7 #PortlandOregon #Photography #Community
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Oregon State University Press @osupress.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
It's nice to see early praise for "Richard Neuberger: Oregon Politics and the Making of a US Senator" on social. ‪@nickkristof.bsky.social wrote on X: "Bravo to Stephen Forrester on his powerful new biography of Neuberger, a luminous portrait of a pioneering journalist, commentator and senator."🌲❤️
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Tom Booth @tbpdx.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." —Ray Bradbury, born on this day in 1920
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Oregon State University Press @osupress.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Congratulations to Elizabeth Mehren and OSU Press's copublisher The Immigrant Story for "I Lived to Tell the World" being named an Oregon Great Reads book! 🎉 Read the State Library of Oregon’s press release at beav.es/xTp. #CenterForTheBook #NationalBookFestival #ReadUP
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Oregon State University Press @osupress.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Kurt Fausch shares the hope "to draw [readers] into this world of what a scientist sees" in his recent work "A Reverence for Rivers." Listen to the full conversation with Michael Simpson on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: beav.es/xiQ. #RiverEthics #RiverEcology #Conservation #Environment
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Oregon ArtsWatch @orartswatch.org · 09/07/2025
The elegant volume is published in connection with a retrospective show at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem.
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‘C.S. Price: A Portrait’: Roger Saydack’s book is a thorough and precise chronicle of the Modernist Oregon painter • Oregon ArtsWatch
The elegant volume is published in connection with a retrospective show at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem.
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Oregon State University Press @osupress.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Happy Pride Month from OSU Press! 🌈 Find these books under the subject “Autobiography and Memoir” or “Women’s & Gender Studies” at www.osupress.oregonstate.edu. 📚 #Pride2025 #PrideMonth #LGBTQBooks
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Adam M. Sowards @adamsowards.net · 28/05/2025
Given the week's holiday kickoff, I used my weekly essay to think about Memorial Day via Brian Doyle's wonderful essay of the same name. I hope you spend a few minutes with it. www.adamsowards.net/being-carefu...
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Being Careful in Public
Lessons from Brian Doyle's "Memorial Day"
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Tom Booth @tbpdx.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Ninety-five years wild. Happy birthday, Gary Snyder.
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Oregon State University Press @osupress.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Happy Publication Day to Linda Ziedrich! "First Fruits" is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press! beav.es/Npj #AgriculturalHistory #Horticulture #PacificCoastHistory #WestwardExpansion
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Oregon State University Press @osupress.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Happy Publication Day to Kurt D. Fausch! "A Reverence for Rivers" is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press! beav.es/N8E #RiverEthics #RiverEcology #Conservation #WaterRights #Enivironment
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Tom Booth @tbpdx.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Today you can help @osupress.bsky.social publish a dam good book. 🦫
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Oregon State University Press @osupress.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Happy Publication Day to Jonathan Bach (@jonathanmbach.bsky.social)! "High Desert, Higher Costs " is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press! Portland, OR Book Launch is TONIGHT! Tuesday, April 29, 7:00 pm Powell's @powells.bsky.social beav.es/Nsd
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Oregon State University Press @osupress.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
It was a challenge for @osupress.bsky.social staff to pick just one book for #EarthDay! Visit our website and browse OSU Press books in Environmental Studies, Nature, Oregon, and more. I trust it will be difficult for you to pick just one too! osupress.oregonstate.edu/ 🌍❤️🌎
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Oregon State University Press @osupress.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
" [Katherine] Hubler's new book, 'Listening to Survivors,' brings first-hand Holocaust perspectives to a wider audience, making them more accessible." —Kallie Hagel, OSU Honors College Read more: beav.es/NAv
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Honors Alumna and History Professor Katherine Hubler, ’01, Publishes New Book on Holocaust Survivors
Twenty-eight years ago, Katherine Hubler arrived at Oregon State University as a first-generation student from a small rural town, planning to major in chemistry in the still-new Honors College. By 2001, she had earned both an H.B.A in history and an H.B.S. in philosophy. Since 2013, Hubler has brought her insight and expertise back to OSU as a senior instructor of history and as the Ecampus coordinator in the School of History, Philosophy and Religion.
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Tom Booth @tbpdx.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Publisher Laura Stanfill's ability to create community around books is a marvelous thing. Her own new book provides insight and encouragement for all writers and publishers—it's a pep talk, toolkit, and warm hug all in one. It's also a powerful reminder of why the work we do is so important.
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Imagine a Door: A Writer's Guide to Unlocking Your Story, Choosing a Publishing Path, and Honoring the Creative Journey
A Writer's Guide to Unlocking Your Story, Choosing a Publishing Path, and Honoring the Creative Journey
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Tom Booth @tbpdx.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Take 5 minutes today to show support for Oregon Humanities, which does so much to instill a sense of connection and community in our state.
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Oregon State University Press @osupress.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
"Naito was a true son of Portland. Born and raised in the city, he knew its streets and alleys, its schools and libraries, its quirks and prejudices. A relentless entrepreneur, his business was rooted in downtown Portland; he wasn’t going to let it go without a fight. " —Reed Magazine beav.es/NiE
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The Iconoclast
How Bill Naito ’49 reshaped Portland.
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Oregon State University Press @osupress.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Save the Date! Monday, March 31, 2025, at 7 pm, Johanna Ogden will be at #McMenamins Kennedy School (in partnership with #OregonHistoricalSociety ) presenting "The March 1910 St. Johns 'Anti-Hindu' Riot: Its Global Impact" for #HistoryPub! Tickets $5 in advance. www.mcmenamins.com/events/26...
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Kennedy School - The March 1910 St. Johns “Anti-Hindu” Riot: Its Global Impact - McMenamins
Pubs, Breweries and Historic Hotels
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Tom Booth @tbpdx.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Toledo, Washington. #BlueSkyArtShow #Windows
Four pane window in brick building in downtown Toledo, Washington. Right side panes broken and partially covered from inside with a white board. Frayed and stained purple curtain with silver cylinder visible in upper right pane.
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The Safina Center @safinacenter.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
“We are literally watching our democracy slip away from us.” Amidst the thousands of federal employees fired in mass cuts are people devoting their lives to protect the #environment and #wildlife. @hobdy71.bsky.social highlights #Hawaiian #conservation workers who suddenly lost their jobs. 🌍🦤
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Sudden and Surreal — The Safina Center
Wildlife Protectors Fired on Kauaʻi (and everywhere else) By Safina Center Conservationist-in-Residence Hob Osterlund
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Tom Booth @tbpdx.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Good work being done by our colleagues in the OSU Library.
today.oregonstate.edu
OSU librarians work to protect researchers from potential loss of federal data | OSU Today
Oregon State University librarians are keeping a close watch on changes at the federal level that could impact government data necessary to conduct research at the university, including data related t...
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