This week we honored Jonathan Evison with a PNBA Award for his novel The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving. (It’s PNBA Award #2 for Evison, who won last year for West of Here.) Today, he kicks off six weeks of essays by our 2013 winners with a well-argued case for real books. Let’s disambiguate right off …
As he told it, at 3 a.m., just five hours before he was to speak in front of a breakfast throng of nearly 200 indie booksellers, Jonathan Evison hailed a cab from the hotel and headed to Kinkos. He had made the decision that he didn’t want to cry. Evison needed help to tell his …
Fern Ridge Public Library Director Colin Rea sent us this shot showing off the “sweet shirt” he won in our recent Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving giveaway, and the book’s publisher, Algonquin Books, had a little something to show off this morning, too. Two new Jonathan Evison sites have gone live just two weeks prior to …
One of the premier giveaways at this year’s Book Expo America was the limited edition T-shirt for Jonathan Evison’s forthcoming novel, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving. By some stroke of luck a small pile made it back to the Algonquin Books’ offices, where they were squirreled away in a closet, much to the delight of …
Algonquin Books Marketing Director Craig Popelars claims he got the subscription for his daughter for Christmas. Whatever you want to believe, this MAD magazine photo he sent is pretty good. Apparently, the new issue features a spoof on a Banana Republic catalog called ‘Banana Republicans.’ Popelars goes on: “It features Newt, Rick, Michele, and the …
On Jan 31 Jonathan Evison had a dual celebration at his hometown bookstore, Eagle Harbor Book Company on Bainbridge Island, Washington, for the paperback release of his bestselling novel West of Here and in honor of his 2012 Pacific Northwest Book Award. You can read his acceptance essay, “Why We Endure,” here on NWBL. The Eagle Harbor crew …
Over a twenty year period spanning my 20s and 30s, during which I cobbled together a living variously hacking up roadkill, slinging spaghetti, checking water meters, tending bar, washing dishes, working car lots, telemarketing sunglasses, and making an ass of myself on FM radio, I wrote seven unpublished novels. It’s what I did. I wrote …
“There is no doubt that Mary Gleysteen is the best bookseller ever to walk the boards of our store, and we will miss her terribly. She retires from bookselling at the end of this month.” That’s just a touch of the sentiment shared on behalf of the staff of Bainbridge Island, Washington’s Eagle Harbor Book …
Village Books staffer (and occasional NWBL contributor) Lindsey McGuirk was interviewed recently by fellow Village staffer Rachel Hanley for the store’s newsletter, and she got McGuirk to recommend a ton of her favorite books. We’re reprinting the interview here: Lindsey McGuirk realized she belonged in the book business when she attended her first Book Expo …
“Martin Anderson is a 44-year-old adolescent. He’s married to a good woman, has two appealing kids, owns a business that buys and sells used private airplanes and he’s a really nice guy. But he has never grown up. It’s 1974, and times are not as tough as in 2011, but surprisingly similar: oil is scarce …
