The Peter Rock Project

2010
The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. The winning titles are selected from the previous year's publishing. The Alex Awards were first given annually beginning in 1998 and became an official ALA award in 2002.

20 March 2009
Peter Rock is deep in a ravine in Forest Park. It's raining hard and everything is green and wet and slippery. Rock is talking about how it's difficult for people to fit into society when they've been living on its fringes.

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By Darlene Pagan

Peter Rock, author of three novels with a fourth, My Abandonement forthcoming (Harcourt) and a story collection, The Unsettling, will read in Taylor Auditorium on Monday, September 22nd at 7pm.

Peter Rock was born and raised in Salt Lake City. He is the author of the novels The Bewildered, The Ambidextrist, This is the Place, and Carnival Wolves, and a story collection, The Unsettling. Rock attended Deep Springs College, received a BA in English from Yale University, and held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. He has taught fiction at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Deep Springs College, and in the MFA program at San Francisco State University. His stories and freelance writing have both appeared widely. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and other awards, he currently lives in Portland, Oregon. His novel My Abandonment will be published by Harcourt in March, 2009.

Visiting Writers Series: Portland author Peter Rock discusses his work. 7 p.m. Mon, Sept. 22. Pacific University, Taylor Auditorium, 2043 College Way, Forest Grove

From the article, Fast, Free And In Control
Willamette Week - Portland,OR,USA

Peter Rock, a local writer (2006’s The Unsettling) and associate professor of creative writing at Reed College, sees merit in online publishing but wonders if it will ever reach the popularity of a magazine or hardbound book. “Everyone in the publishing industry is trying to find out how virtual content works, if books are going to be around much longer,” he says. “But I don’t know many people—maybe that’s because I’m old—that spend that much time reading fiction online.” Rock may be right: While virtual content has its advantages—websites can print whatever they want without the restrictions of an editor or publisher while remaining free for readers—it’s difficult to imagine a world without books or magazines.