Kelly Williams Brown, long time Salem resident and champion of the communities here, has authored three nonfiction books that embrace her community and build it up with useful, smart life advice. I sat down with Kelly to discuss her upcoming book Easy Crafts for the Insane: A Mostly Funny Memoir of Mental Illness and Making Things, and the way writing habits, advice, and community intertwine in her work.

On this episode of Textbook Revolution, we talk with Matthew Hodgson, editor of Chemeketa Press's edition of Passing, a 1929 novella by Nella Larsen. This essential book has reached a new audience due to the November 11, 2021 release of a film adaptation on Netflix. Hodgson discusses the exciting additions he's made to our version, and reflects on the adaptation's successes at capturing the dense and complex nuance of the novella.

In this episode of Textbook Revolution, we speak with Alexis Butzner about her new anthology, The Art Is Long: Primary Texts in Medicine & the Humanities. This anthology in the Medical Humanities covers a broad range of subjects and time as this field has grown in importance. Butzner discusses the process of building an introductory anthology and the excitement within the field of Medical Humanities.

In this episode, we speak to Portland, OR author Emme Lund, whose book The Boy with a Bird in His Chest will be released February 15, 2022 from Atria Books. We discuss the origins of this fantastic coming-of-age story, finding community of like minds in your youth, the importance of music (not just in youth but in this book), and Lund's writing process and strategies.

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In this episode of Textbook Revolution, host Brian Mosher speaks to Daniel Couch, author and editor of Your Guide to College Writing, a writers' handbook for college students published by Chemeketa Press. We discuss the evolution of the handbook through several iterations, the need for textbooks that serve students more than they serve faculty, and why this handbook is the best handbook we've ever used in classrooms.

In this episode of Textbook Revolution, host Brian Mosher talks with Stephanie Lenox and Amy Hofer about Open Oregon's next "Targeted Pathways" project. Open Oregon Educational Resources is a hub, both for locating and creating Open Educational Resources (OERs) that are free to use by faculty and students. Targeted Pathways is a grant-funded project that is building 13 textbooks and courses with the help of Chemeketa Press.