Tonight at 7:00 at University Bookstore, one of our favorite Christmas traditions takes place: the annual reading by Brad Craft of “A Christmas Memory” by Truman Capote. Craft (above, reading some Ogden Nash holiday poetry), a bookseller, poetry-lover, author, artist, and modern Renaissance man, will warm your heart. The free cookie and cider will help …
“I love this unique and delightful little book, illustrated and handwritten by longtime bookseller Brad Craft. A is for Auden, printed on University Book Store’s Espresso Book Machine, is truly a conversation starter. Full of wit and intellect, it’s an alphabet book for the literature lover!”—Anna, University Book Store, Seattle. Buy A is for Auden from …
At Used Buyer 2.0, Brad Craft, who we always refer to here as Our Favorite Curmudgeonly Bookseller, blogs about the scary stories he and fellow booksellers will be reading Saturday afternoons throughout October at the University Book Store in Seattle. For his turn, Craft read Saki, also known as Hector Hugh Munro, who Craft, always …
Clare Meeker is a passionate researcher with a love for telling stories to children. She was the perfect local candidate to be the special guest at The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators meeting the last Sunday of September for their nonfiction craft talk. I realized that throughout my various interviews with authors, I …
Even though author Kerry Colburn celebrated the launch of Bitchcraft with a very witchy event at Queen Anne Book Company in Seattle, the simple spells are certainly not limited to any season. Kerry and her book were recently featured on Seattle Refined in a segment called “Don’t Get Mad, Get Even.” You can watch the …
Do you like to read military-like action thrillers? If so, you will love Brad Thor’s second book featuring the most intriguing military unit in print today. The Athena Project features a unit of Delta Force called The Athena Project, first featured in Foreign Influence. What makes this unit different? They are smart, Delta Force trained, …
Last week, Brad Craft and Nick DiMartino of University Book Store in Seattle recorded their 46th Breakfast at the Bookstore podcast, marking their one year anniversary of Nick eating maple bars, Brad enjoying more unpredictable treats, and the two sharing delightful book banter to get readers everywhere more excited about books new and old. …
We thought we should take a moment to figure out who this “B. Dylan Hollis” fellow is (because his book is our lead-off title this week), and well, it’s an hour later now and we’re still watching YouTube videos. We blame Hollis’s infectious enthusiasm for margarine, wooden spoons, and recipes from the ‘70s. So, yeah, …
From family of friends of Chandler O’Leary, through her website: “Our dear friend Chandler passed away on April 2 from sudden and severe pneumonia. She was just 41 years old, and leaves behind an astonishing body of work as an author and artist[. . . ] “In her short life, she filled countless sketchbooks and …
From the family and friends of Chandler O’Leary: Our dear friend Chandler passed away on April 2 from sudden and severe pneumonia. She was just 41 years old, and leaves behind an astonishing body of work as an author and artist. In her short life, she filled countless sketchbooks and created public art and signage, …
