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Ooligan Press, Portland State University's general trade press, has published its first book, Abraham Lincoln, A Novel Life, written by longtime PSU professor of English Tony Wolk. Ooligan serves as a laboratory for students within the publishing strand of the master's in writing program; each book published by the press is the result of the work of dozens of students and their faculty of publishing professionals.

Professor Tony Wolk's novel Abraham Lincoln, A Novel Life, released in February, is the first book to be published by PSU's Ooligan Press.

Wolk's novel tells the story of Abraham Lincoln, suddenly transported from the last days of the Civil War to Evanston, IL, circa 1955. In his brief respite from his duties as president, Lincoln experiences the century he helped define, finds love, and learns something of his own death before returning to his own time in 1865.

"Many wonderful things have been written about Abraham Lincoln, but never anything like this poignant, pixilated tale of the past turning to the future and the future to the past," said Portland writer Ursula K. Le Guin. Wolk has taught English at Portland State since 1965.