Portland State Magazine Fall 2018

9 Off the beaten track THE TILLAMOOK and Clatsop State Forests are less than an hour from Portland, but they’re two of Oregon’s best-kept secrets, still largely untrodden. 50 Hikes in the Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests , from the Sierra Club Oregon Chapter and PSU’s Ooligan Press, introduces readers to hikes throughout the area, ranging from easy to strenuous. Ooligan is an independent trade press run by graduate students in PSU’s book publishing program. They do everything required to bring a book to its readers, including acquisitions, editing, design, marketing—and in the case of 50 Hikes , going on all the hikes in the book to verify that directions were accurate and understandable. John Callahan gets his due DIRECTOR Gus Van Sant’s latest movie, Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot , is a biopic about cartoonist and alumnus John Callahan, who is played by Joaquin Phoenix. Quadriplegic as a result of an auto accident, Callahan drew irreverent cartoons that frequently made fun of his fellow “quads”—as well as everyone else. In 1983, he earned a B.A. in English from Portland State, and at the time of his death in 2010, was about to enroll at PSU again for a master’s degree in counseling. His work appeared regularly in Willamette Week , and he wrote ten books, created two animated television series, and released a CD, Purple Winos in the Rain , with a cameo by Tom Waits. Nation Divided CD by George Colligan (jazz faculty), Whirlwind Recordings, 2018 Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard By Paul Collins (English faculty),W.W. Norton & Company, 2018 Three Sides Water By Peter Donahue, PSU Ooligan Press, 2018 Women Veterans: Lifting the Veil of Invisibility By G.L.A. Harris and Rita Finn Summer (Public Administration faculty), student Maria Gonzalez- Prats, Routledge, 2018 CagedWomen: Incarceration, Representation & Media Edited by Shirley A. Jackson (Black Studies faculty) and Laurie Gordy, Routledge, 2018 Ultraviolet: A Novel By Suzanne Matson ’81, Catapult, 2018 AWay Home: Oregon Essays By Scott F. Parker MS ’09, Kelson Books, 2018 Hoshi and the Red City Circuit By Dora M. Raymaker MS ’09, PhD ’15 (Regional Research faculty), Argawarga Press, 2018 Ascent By Roland Smith (student in early 1970s), HMH Books for Young Readers, 2018 NEW WORKS