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Grand Gesture Books could be Portland's first-ever romance bookstore

Say Nice Things About… Portland's Themed Bookstores!

As someone who briefly braved the trenches of bookstore work (I was a “generalist” at Powell’s during the pandemic), my appreciation for our city’s bookstores is unshakable. Luckily for me (and for all of us), Portland takes its bookstores seriously, and the city’s book-digging options have expanded in recent years to include genre-driven stores and rare book haunts. Here are five shops that deserve a second browse. Parallel Worlds Bookshop Parallel Worlds, a sweet, turquoise-walled...

'The Evergreen': At Work With a bridge tender, a movie store clerk and a Powell's bookseller

Portland booksellers at Powell's City of Books are experts on your favorite genre

How Writing Romance Helped Alison Cochrun Embrace Her Queerness

Based in Vancouver, Washington, the former high school English teacher is now a full-time romance author, with a third book, 'Here We Go Again,' out April 2.

Senate moves bill banning gender affirming care

Senate File 99 would ban minors from getting surgeries such as castrations, vasectomies, hysterectomies and mastectomies along with other gender affirming care.

Many Oregonians living in state's hottest homes lack cooling devices, study shows

The great escape: where Times readers go to beat the winter blues

Island volcanoes, pools with pirate ships and the St Tropez of north Africa … Jane Common on the best travel bargains to get you out of the rain

Portland Gets Its First-Ever Romance Bookstore, Finally

Black-owned Grand Gesture Books looks to fill a hole in Portland’s bookish heart.

'I'm being driven out of my family home because of what's happening next door'