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Two Plum Press Two Plum Press produces slim volumes of literary works both contemporary and classic. www.twoplumpress.com

Titles include works of poetry, essays, fiction, philosophy, visual art, travel and food writing. The press operates similarly to an independent record label, where the artists are tied to one another through their friendships, common location, history, and collaborations. The books are produced in industrial southeast Portland, Oregon. They are printed on primarily old paper stock and feature let

terpress-printed dust jackets using hand set lead type. Designer/publisher Andrew Barton is the son of an author and a librarian, grandson of a poet and book store owner. Collecting books since his early youth, he has always gravitated towards those smaller and simpler by design.

NEW BOOK from our Nickel Dinner imprint:‘FREE FOOD: earth eating’ by Andrew Barton (). A counterculture cookbook for the...
04/02/2025

NEW BOOK from our Nickel Dinner imprint:
‘FREE FOOD: earth eating’ by Andrew Barton ().

A counterculture cookbook for these strange times.

Mixing memoir and loose recipes, this book intends to inspire a “free” approach to cooking and eating. A literally down-to-earth approach – as in: food grown, purchased, cooked, and consumed with an awareness of the Earth. A reflection on an idealistic, optimistic, possibility-fueled young adulthood spent around tables of co-op houses and would-be communes. An appreciation for groovy, light-hearted, no-rules cuisine.

Hippies of the past dreamt of a better world from their kitchens, and today we can do the same as we cook and eat in more informed, conscious, intentional ways.

This book is a love letter to Eugene, Oregon – a small city where this free spirited food and mindset have long been commonplace – and takes a close look at the formative food memories that make us hunger for another taste.

Free Food is a not-done-dreaming exploration of alternative ways of living in the now.

Foreword by Jonathan Kauffman ()

Contributing essays by Nicole Lavelle () and Lola Milholland ()

Original drawings by Sam Farrell ()

Title page lettering by Adam Zeek ()

Featuring additional artists and photographers, whose work will be highlighted in a future post.

312 pages. Offset printed (spot color, all green) and bound in Portland, Oregon by Charles Overbeck of Eberhardt Press (). A limited printing. Available now: link in bio! Thank you, as ever, for reading.

We will be tabling at our favorite local opportunity to buy books in person:PUBLICATION+ FAIR Saturday, December 7th 11a...
06/12/2024

We will be tabling at our favorite local opportunity to buy books in person:

PUBLICATION+ FAIR
Saturday, December 7th
11am - 3pm
2024 N Argyle St, Portland, OR 97217 (Madre Linen)

Perfect Day Publishing
IPRC
Fonograf Editions
Impeller Press
Container Corps
We Fold Open the House
Monograph Bookwerks
Two Plum Press
Future Tense Press
Some People Press
Marilyn Stablein Book Arts
Penny Press
Twin Window Editions
everything is so much
Nonsense Books
lumber room

Babcia Bread (pastries)
and more! It seems as though an entire other fair of goods other than books is also happening at Madre Linen HQ at the same time so perhaps that means a very appealing, loads of options destination holiday shopping event for you??!

Alex Baker’s new book ‘Bar Nostalgic’ launches in NYC with a special cocktail hour gathering at  in the East Village (81...
30/05/2024

Alex Baker’s new book ‘Bar Nostalgic’ launches in NYC with a special cocktail hour gathering at in the East Village (81 E 7th St) on Friday from 5-7 p.m. Special cocktail by Liz! More soon about this book soon ➡️ !

Two Plum Press will appear in rare “brief pop up” form at Powell’s City of Books in downtown Portland on Saturday 4/27 f...
26/04/2024

Two Plum Press will appear in rare “brief pop up” form at Powell’s City of Books in downtown Portland on Saturday 4/27 from 4-6pm! This is TOMORROW, this is Independent Bookstore Day, and Powell’s has extended the invitation to Two Plum and several of our small press chums to sling our wares independently within their independent monolith of a bookstore! Wowee Zowee! We will be selling the first copies of a new title from a new imprint that has been teased 0% and has no expectations from anyone but is something we are very excited about and proud of, as well as the as-yet-unavailable-online ‘The Book of Definitions’ by Ross Robbins, a new batch of the ever-hot-ticket ‘Writing Exercises’ by Joshua James Amberson, copies from the last box of the second printing of Andrew Barton’s ‘The Long Loaf,’ and assorted tittles from our 11 (!) years in producing paper distributable art objects! Please consider a jaunt downtown to stroll the isles and visit our table. 📚

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