The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, the indie bookstore booster behind this blog, announced the winners of their annual book awards today. Congratulations are in order for Sherman Alexie (Seattle, WA) for Blasphemy; Jonathan Evison (Bainbridge Island, WA) for The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving; Eowyn Ivey (Palmer, AK) for The Snow Child; Lucia Perillo (Olympia, WA) for …
“A young adult novel for any bookshelf. The prose is crisp, refreshing and effortless, the characters fully realized and vivid, the dialogue believable and well chosen. Th generic viagra ere is a clean loveliness to this book, a light in it, despite its dark topic.”—PNBA Awards Committee. Putting Makeup on Dead People is on the shortlist for …
You don’t often get an inside look at the workings of an Award Committee, whether it’s for a national award, or something “less important,” like the Northwest booksellers’ awards. But for the last few years, we have indeed had one member of the Northwest booksellers group who has an established blog, and who has not …
Seattle author Rebecca Brown won a 1995 PNBA Book Award for her novel The Gifts of the Body, which also won a Lambda Literary Award. This year she has won the Judy Grahn Award for Best Lesbian Nonfiction from The Publishing Triangle, the Association of Lesbians and Gay Men in Publishing for her book American …
