From Tom Nissley, owner of Phinney Books and author of A Reader’s Book of Days: There’s a moment in the life of a writer, and the life of a book, that they don’t tell you about in school: when you get an email from your editor saying, “Sorry, but your book has been remaindered” (which …
This weekend, to honor Adult Education and Family Literacy Week, Phinney Books in Seattle be hosting volunteers from their friends at Literacy Source at the store from 12 to 2 on Saturday and 2 to 4 on Sunday. They’ll be spreading the word on the good work Literacy Source does, and the store will have a …
From Phinney Books’ store newsletter: Hey, happy birthday to us! I can’t tell if it feels like yesterday or a hundred years ago when we reopened the doors of Santoro’s as Phinney Books, but it was actually two years ago, on June 20, 2014. As I say to everyone who asks, those two years could …
From Phinney Books, the local bookstore for Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood: Saturday, on April 16 at 3 pm, we’ll be welcoming emissaries from our neighbors to the north at the Bureau of Fearless Ideas, the award-winning writing center: kid and grownups will read from their contributions to the new Encyclopedia Greenwoodia, a timeless celebration of our …
Early in the morning on March 9, a natural gas explosion destroyed three businesses at 84th and Greenwood in the Phinney Ridge neighborhood of Seattle, 10 blocks from Phinney Books. The bookstore is holding a silent auction and donating all proceeds from sales on Friday March 18 will be donated to the Phinney Neighborhood Association’s Greenwood …
Happy first birthday to Phinney Books in Seattle! They celebrated with an in-store sale their birthday weekend, plus a great display of their top 50 bestsellers since they opened. (I spy the covers of many regional authors in that window: Dan Brown, Anthony Doerr, Ruth Ozeki, Renee Erikson, Nicola Griffith, Charles D’Ambrosio, Cheryl Strayed, Molly Weisenberg, …
“Word got back to Alfred A. Knopf about how much I loved Richard Flanagan’s novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North (still my favorite book of the year so far), and . . . Phinney Books had the honor of a visit from Mr. Flanagan before his reading . . . at Elliott Bay Books (on the same day …
We have an update on the opening of Phinney Books in Seattle– the new bookstore owned by Tom Nissley and Laura Silverstein in the location formerly known as Santoro’s Books! The Grand Opening of Phinney Books will be Saturday, June 21. Hours will be 10 am to 8 pm. Enjoy refreshments, storytelling, and the new collection of …
From the Phinney Books/ Madison Books Team in Seattle, WA: It’s been a bit quiet on the newsletter side of things here, in part because we’ve had quite a bit going on, and in part because many of us have been in and out of town during the summer, but most of all because we …
