Seattle’s Queen Anne Book Company opens today in the 1811 Queen Anne Avenue storefront vacated by the similarly named Queen Anne Books last October. That’s a lot of Queen Annes! The grand opening celebration will run from Friday, March 1 through Sunday, March 3, 9 am to 9 pm every day with a non-stop parade of …
The crowd was packed tightly into the reading room at Elliott Bay Book Company Monday night to celebrate PNBA Book Award winners Sherman Alexie and G. Willow Wilson. The authors read from their award-winning books, Wilson from her novel Alif the Unseen and Alexie from Blasphemy, his collection of new and favorite stories. They finished the evening …
We’re starting to wonder if Island Books might actually be a front for a writers colony. From the bossman, to a couple of regular NWBL contributors, on down to the teenager on the staff, this crew can compose. This lit crit piece revolving around Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore and Alif the Unseen is from Emma Page, the …
Last week we honored G. Willow Wilson with a 2013 PNBA Award for her novel Alif the Unseen. Thanks to Wilson for sharing this essay with us in celebration of the award (See Jonathan Evison’s post from last week and look for essays from the other four winners in the coming weeks). Join Wilson and Sherman Alexie …
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 …
“I’ve always admired Ellen Forney’s humor and honesty, but Marbles is a major leap forward. It’s a hilarious memoir about mental illness, yes, but it’s also an incisive study of what it means to be human and how we ache to become better humans. Amazing stuff.”—Sherman Alexie, Pacific Northwest Book Award-winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Buy Marbles from a NW bookstore at IndieBound.
“If you ever get a chance to see Sherman Alexie in person, do it. He is the most amazing speaker: smart, funny, smart, opinionated, smart, provocative—did I mention smart??? But if you can’t see him in person, for goodness sakes read his books. (By the way, the Multnomah County Library system picked two of Alexie’s …
The Awards Committee for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association has announced its shortlist for the best books of 2012 by Northwest authors. These 12 books and their authors are the nominees. The PNBA Awards Committee is made up of nine volunteer booksellers from throughout our region. This year they considered more than 200 titles published in …
“Kurt Vonnegut has long been in the standing of the only author who wrote a short story that not only left an impression on me, but made me fall in love (See “Long Walk to Forever” from Welcome to the Monkey House). Of course I should’ve known that Sherman Alexie could join those ranks. This …
It’s the 30th anniversary for Banned Books Week this week—time to celebrate your favorite banned and challenged books. At Chapter One Book Store in Hamilton, MT, they’re discounting a different banned book each day this week. Today it’s Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which was the fifth most challenged book of 2011, according …
