THIS IS YOUR LIFE, HARRIET CHANCE! Jonathan Evison Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, $25.95 296 pages By MICHAEL UPCHURCH/Special to The Oregonian Novelist Jonathan Evison has a knack for delivering ...

Author's note: One of the highest-profile casualties of Britain's war in Afghanistan was probably killed by "friendly fire," according to newly-discovered ballistic evidence that has prompted calls ...

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This moving fifth novel from Evison (This is Your Life, Harriet Chance) enters the wry, conflicted mind of Mike Muñoz, a recently fired yard worker with a real talent for topiary and a genuine love ...

Part of Jonathan Evison is an extrovert, the kind of author who remembers names and does 70 book events a year. Another part of him is a nature boy, the man who retreated to Bainbridge Island off ...

In his new book, West of Here, novelist Jonathan Evison takes readers back to one of the last unexplored territories of the American West: Washington state's Olympic Peninsula. The novel centers on ...

What: Author Jonathan Evison will be on stage to discuss his book “Again and Again,” alongside being a target of modern book-banning movements with his novel “Lawn Boy.” When: 7 p.m. Tuesday. Doors ...

Nine months ago, Algonquin Books editor Chuck Adams stood up in a packed auditorium of booksellers in New York City and flatly declared that "West of Here" was the best novel he had worked on in a ...

“What I wanted was a book written by a guy who worked as a landscaper or a cannery grunt or a guy who installed heating vents. Something about modern class struggle in the trenches. Something ...

Boyd Evison, a leading figure in the National Park Service for more than four decades who played a leading role in the cleanup of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, has died. He was 69. Evison, who later ...