Mykle Hansen, the author of Eyeheart Everything, has a new book coming out this fall: Help! A Bear is Eating Me! It is set to be released in October, published by Afterbirth Books.

For a sneak preview of his upcoming work, visit Bizarro Central and listen to him read the first two chapters.

And be sure to browse through the Bizarro Central website when you are done.

Within a week of Willamette Week's Review of Sicko, and the Oregonian's Review of the Same, Michael Moore's film disappeared from Portland theaters. It now plays at only two cinemas city-wide, Fox Tower and Lloyd.

So I have to ask: Is Portland SICKO?

Forget what you've heard about Sicko being a work of propaganda. In the United States, we view universal health care as a specious system. So it more than hurts to watch Michael Moore's film and see how normal it is for the rest of the world.

This is a film about propaganda, for sure. The propaganda machine behind the government of the United States of America.

King Black Acid is one of the greatest bands to come out of Portland, Oregon. Read this INTERVIEW over at In Music We Trust for a bit of history.

You can buy some King Black Acid over HERE.

Visit KING BLACK ACID on MySpace.

The PARIS BITTER HEARTS PIT (Issue 4) is available. It includes work by Adelle Stripe, Vim Cortez, Daniel Coleman, Steve Vermilion, Jessica Buck, Steve Ely, Glenn Fisher, Joseph Ridgwell, Matthew Coleman, Lee Rourke, Ashley Reaks, Chris Killen.

You can order your copy HERE.

Click & Read Dogmatika's Review of Falling From the Sky.

I was at the BROADWAY BOOKS reading on June 26th, 2007.

Scott Wayne Indiana's piece was cunningly funny, and I can't wait to read his upcoming novel, especially if he can maintain the wordplay he displays here for more than a hundred pages.

Santi Elijah Holley, also featured in Falling From the Sky, has a literary touch that is so tender and taciturn, he shows, simply through his style, how Silence is an affectation that obscures our concept of the past, present, and future with inauspicious consequences. It's as if the characters are somehow displaced from themselves, from their own lives. Yet for all of its calm, Santi Elijah Holley's voice has a depth unlike anything I have read in years.

Carlton Mellick III and Jeremy Robert Johnson, also featured in the Falling From the Sky anthology, are excellent writers. They read at the Salon de Merde in May, and both of these guys have a stage presence that rivals one of my favorite authors, Jonathan Ames. Whether you are a reader or a writer or both, whether you are into the literary-thing or not, this is fiction you can have fun with.

This anthology is filled with great stories from cover to cover. Move on to Dogmatika's review and then go buy the book. It is available at Powell's City of Books in Portland and Amazon.com. Or you can get the best deal in town and buy it from Another Sky Press.