Not The Enemy
Nancy Townsley's debut novel, Sunshine Girl, about the evolution of newspaper journalism from Nixon to Biden, is due out from Heliotrope Books in April 2025.
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The Boy Who Ate Six Ham and Cheese Sandwiches
A blurry photo of Kenny and me in 1974 before he moved to Utah after graduation.
My mother told the story for years—decades even—after it unfolded in the kitchen of our house in Lake Oswego, Oregon. “It” was my friend Kenny devouri...
On exploding traditional gender roles
What are little boys made of?
What are little boys made of?
Snips, snails
And puppy-dogs’ tails
That’s what little boys are made of.
What are little girls made of?
What are little girls made of?
Sugar and spice
And everyt...
On the first Picnic Eve without Steve, a dream
Steve Arndt smiles with friends at the Portland Writers Picnic in 2016. (Laura Stanfill photo)
Steve is with Gigi and me in a room with three chairs. There’s a painting of a dog with an ornate collar on one wall. Someone is cooking...
9/11: ‘Do we recover from this kind of loss?’
Cover of The Families, a new anthology of stories about 9/11, out in time for the 25th anniversary of the tragedy.
Naomi Rosenblatt—writer, editor, illustrator, designer—owns and operates the independent press Heliotrope Books in M...
‘We need a reporter, not a pretty girl’
I was 13 and in the eighth grade when I became aware of feminist organizer and community builder Gloria Steinem, who died September 3 at 92.
At the time, my girlish interest stemmed more from a yearning to look like her—a cascade of chestn...
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Newspaper retiree. My journalist novel, Sunshine Girl, was published in 2025 by Heliotrope Books of New York. Carson McClintock Is Not Dead Yet, a novel about a free Oregon commune for the indigent elderly, is forthcoming from Heliotrope in May 2027.
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