Though missing a few obvious mentions of people and places such as Garth Stein, Sasquatch Books and a slew of bookstores (it could be fun to fill up the comments with omissions), this Ploughshares magazine Literary Boroughs series tour of Seattle does make for a good pamphlet tour of the literary city. It covers most of …
There’s a fun post at the blog Tea & Cookies about how a trio of Seattle friends jumped in the car over the weekend after reading about a certain Portland restaurant in the Sasquatch guide West Coast Road Eats: The Best Road Food from San Diego to the Canadian Border. It’s the best kind of summer …
Portland readers (and visitors) should check out the pretty new home for Reading Local: Portland. There you’ll find book reviews, including lots of love for small local press books; book excerpts; news about upcoming literary events in and around Portland and a directory of Portland bookstores. Right now, the content includes an interview with Jon Bell, …
Lynda Hopkins, a Stanford-educated city girl, left the city to start a small farm. And from that experience comes her first book The Wisdom of the Radish, from Sasquatch Books in Seattle. The publisher has a fun promotion to start getting the word out on Ms. Hopkins’ book: send the publisher your mailing address and …
“Lots of people, Sasquatchers, lots of Nancy, lots of wine . . . ” That’s the report we received Tuesday morning following Nancy Pearl’s acceptance of her Lifetime Achievement Award presented at Elliott Bay Book Company on behalf of its indie store fraternity, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, and its 2011 Book Awards. The reporter was Cindy …
Our friends at Sasquatch Books in Seattle are promoting a wonderfully cute new alphabet book called Have You Ever Seen a Smack of Jellyfish with a contest. The challenge is to guess the words that describe a group of these animals: butterflies, owls, rhinoceroses, and zebras. A “smack of jellyfish” is obvious—it’s in the title; …
Library Journal has named Seattle-based author Nancy Pearl its Librarian of the Year for her amazing ability to convince “Americans that libraries, books, and reading are critical to our communities.” We couldn’t have said it better. Pearl, who has published multiple titles in her Book Lust series, all from Sasquatch Books in Seattle, was a …
The Seattle Times offered an excerpt Saturday from Book Lust To Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers (Sasquatch, 2010) by Nancy Pearl, who is pretty much a rock star among book nerds. Pearl regaled indie booksellers at a recent event where crimson T-shirts featuring her bespectacled mug over the words ¡Viva El Libro! practically caused …
PWxyz has a nice article today about a book that won’t be available until November, The Lost Art of Reading by David Ulin, published by the Northwest’s own Sasquatch Books. We haven’t seen the book but we sure do like the concept. PWxyz describes it thusly: “Ulin confronts the question of whether and how the …
We update the Bestseller list every Wednesday, based on sales in independent bookstores around the Northwest during the previous week. There are always a few titles on our list that don’t show up in the national lists of bestsellers, which is a reflection of the love of regional authors and books by you, our neighbors …
