The Singer's Gun by Emily St. John Mandel
Read this aloud to my husband as we drove from Yakima to Gearhart and back this weekend.
Read this aloud to my husband as we drove from Yakima to Gearhart and back this weekend.
“In a recent interview Danzy Senna explained that she wrote half of the stories in You Are Free when single and living in New York City and the others in LA during and after her pregnancy; this time of transistion, conflict and reflection has given her a lot to say about how it is to …
Green Bean Books, in Northeast Portland, is a tiny store. So maybe it’s no surprise that they have a penchant for tiny things—and we don’t just mean your kids. Recently, the store hosted Portland artist Maggie Rudy, who not only shared her adorable book, The House That Mouse Built, but also left a miniature diorama …
Tonight, at Eagle Harbor Book Company on Bainbridge Island, nine authors will try on their bookselling hats for the evening. The authors—Kathleen Alcala, Carol Cassella, David Guterson, Jonathan Evison, Suzanne Selfors, Kristin von Kreisler, Susan Wiggs, Barbara Winther and George Shannon—will recommend their favorite books on writing and otherwise from 5-7 pm. Shannon will share …
If you’ve seen the book trailers for Wicked Plants and Wicked Bugs, you know that Amy Stewart is not just a diligent researcher but that she’s wicked quirky and fun. She knows how to make anything (earthworms, weeds, bedbugs) a topic you want to read. That’s why her books continue to end up on The …
“One of my favorite things as a bookseller is The Discovery: finding a book in the pile of advance reading copies that speaks to me in a way that is utterly unique and compelling, a story that sings directly to my heart and stuns me with its voice. So far, Dean Bakopoulos’s latest novel is …
There’s no real news hook to this post—just a link to a cool new website from one of our favorite NW authors. If you’re a Sherman Alexie fan, you’ll want to go here to learn what Alexie is reading (Wendy Videlock, Lydia Davis, Zachary Schomburg) and thinking (about gay marriage in New York, his forthcoming book …
“I was happy to read Peter Hoffmeister’s memoir shortly after having read Townie: A Memoir by Andre Dubus III. Both men began as boys who were thoughtful, introverted and reluctant to fight, but, for both, conflicted emotions about their parents drove them to transform themselves physically and mentally for self-protection—and to inflict pain on others. …
“For those of you who like to explore other cultures and other places, this story of a 12-year-old girl whose family struggles to survive in a Nigerian village that has been colonized by Western oilfields is a MUST READ. Blessing, the child narrator, has been torn from her father and her modern life in Lagos …