Perfect Day Publishing

"Staring Contest is a bold and kind collection that manages to tackle the sensitive subject of vision loss with humor and curiosity, exploring the process of making art, navigating the world, and the wide spectrum of what disability can look like."

We're thrilled that Staring Contest is one of the Willamette Week's best books of the year. Congratulations, Joshua! 🎉🎉

These Are 2023′s Best Books From Portland Writers Best Work in Translation: Bảo Ninh’s Hà Nôi at Midnight, translated by Cab Tran and Quan Manh Ha (Texas Tech University Press, 216 pages, $29.95)Portland writer and translator Cab Tran says the first time he read Bảo Ninh, he found his prose “more psychologically complex than anything I’...

As the final installment of Joshua James Amberson's self-described "oddball book tour," we are delighted to announce a multi-media evening inspired by Staring Contest featuring:

Carl Diehl
Yaara Valey
M. Sabine Rear
Margaret Malone
Brianna Wheeler

Join us at 6 pm on Sunday, October 1st at the Open Signal screening room (2766 NE MLK JR BLVD, PDX) for this ADA accessible & free and all ages event.

We're very grateful to RACC (the Regional Arts & Culture Council) for their support of this project.

Look for our table at the PDX indie book fair this Saturday! Many other small presses will also be there; for those of you who remember the Publication Fair, it'll be like that, except outdoors in July instead of indoors in December. We're excited to see some familiar faces (also excited that it's only supposed to be 85 degrees).⛱

Free to attend, 12 - 5 pm at Honey Latte, 1033 SE Main

We're very grateful to Michelle Kicherer & the Willamette Week for this thoughtful piece on Staring Contest (the book release is next Tues, May 16 @ Powell's, featuring JJA and Elena Passarello).

Joshua James Amberson Reveals the Inspiration Behind His New Essay Collection, “Staring Contest” “It starts as a mist taking over my world,” reads the start of “Hazy,” the opening essay in Joshua James Amberson’s new collection, Staring Contest: Essays About Eyes (Perfect Day Publishing, 224 pages, $15), which will be published May 16.The Portland author sits down with me at a cafe in...

Today is the final day to save $2.50 when you pre-order STARING CONTEST!

All pre-orders will come with a limited edition bookmark designed & letterpressed by Aaron Robert Miller (while supplies last)

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We've got a new book coming out on May 16 -- Joshua James Amberson's STARING CONTEST: ESSAYS ABOUT EYES

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