Journalist Lori Tobias arrived on the Oregon coast in 2000. After freelancing from Newport for several years, she signed on with the Oregonian as a stringer covering the coast from Florence to Astoria; later she would be hired as a staff writer responsible for the entire coast--one person for more than three hundred miles. The job meant long hours, being called out for storms in the middle of the night in dangerous conditions, and driving hundreds of miles in a day if stories called for it. The Oregon coast is a rugged, beautiful place known for its dramatic landscapes and fierce storms. Separated from the state's population centers by the Coast Range, it is a land of small towns reliant primarily on fishing and tourism. Many of the stories Tobias covered were tragedies: car crashes, falls, drownings, capsizings. And those were just the accidents; Tobias covered plenty of violent crimes as well, such as the infamous Christian Longo murders of 2001. Tobias's story is as much her own as it is the coast's, and she takes the reader through familiar beats of life--learning to live on and cover the coast, regular trips back east as her parents age, the decline of journalism in the twenty-first century--and the unexpected, often unglamorous experiences of a working reporter, such as a bout of vertigo after rappelling from a helicopter.&nbsp;Storm Beat&nbsp;tells a compelling story of a land that many visit but few truly know. &nbsp;

Storm Beat: A Journalist Reports from the Oregon Coast

Biographies & Memoirs

Tobias, Lori

Community & Culture

Oregon State University Press

Wander is "Award-winning finalist in the Best New Fiction category of the 2017 International Book Awards." Set in the 1980s in the rural community of Bidarkee Bay, Alaska, a fictional area the size of a small state with a population of barely 20,000, Wander is the story of Patrice "Pete" Nash, a young broadcast reporter who finds herself facing the winter alone after her husband, Nate, accepts a job on "the slope." As Pete pursues the next big breaking news story, she strikes up a friendship with the new guy in town, the Ivy League-educated Ren, who recites poetry and lives in the family-owned, vacant inn. Their friendship offers a glimpse of a different kind of life - one that seems to Pete to offer everything marriage to the country-raised Nate does not. But unbeknown to Pete, Ren has come to Alaska for his own dark reasons - to end his life. By the time, Nate returns home, their lives have been irrevocably changed. One man is dead, two others missing and a third forever lost to them.

Wander

Literature & Fiction

United States

Boreal Books

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