“Olmstead is a champ at channeling the grittier side of life. After the main character, Henry, is threatened by his girlfriend’s disapproving father and brother, Henry enlists in the marines. Now in the midst of the Korean War, he finds himself facing many of the horrors of being a soldier. When he finally returns to …
Welcome to the revamped NWBookLovers.org! As you take a look around the new site, you’ll see that it feels more like a traditional blog than the old version and that we’ve got a bunch of new voices—all while hanging on to the best of the old site: the Face Outs, the author interviews and essays, …
Nancy Pearl is a librarian with an action figure modeled in her likeness; author of the Book Lust series; a regular commentator about books on NPR’s “Morning Edition” and a former bookseller. She recently joined forces with Amazon to create the Book Lust Rediscoveries series, which will bring out-of-print books back into circulation. The partnership …
PNBA member authors and Award Winners are listed alphabetically. For information about joining PNBA, contact PNBA.org A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W XYZ Diana Abu-Jaber dianaabujaber.com Diana Abu-Jaber is the author of four novels and numerous short stories, essays and articles published in Salon, The Washington Post, …
Trying to describe Matt Ruff’s writing in one sentence is akin to trying to recap the entire series of “Lost” in one minute. Walk your way through his oeuvre and you’ll meet up with a manipulating Greek god, a resurrected and enslaved Ayn Rand, an imaginary house inhabited by the multiple souls of one man …
Day 21. Chelsea Cain is the author of The New York Times bestselling thrillers Heartsick, Sweetheart, Evil at Heart, and The Night Season. Her Portland-based thrillers, described by The New York Times as “steamy and perverse,” have been published in over 30 languages, recommended on “The Today Show,” appeared in episodes of HBO’s “True Blood” …
With 74 Jeopardy! wins under his belt, the most wins ever on the game show, Ken Jennings might be expected to be a dry sort. Instead he’s a goofball with a killer wit (he’s not above “your mom” jokes). Not just the Jeopardy guy, Jennings has gained celebrity status for his charismatic appearances on The …
“Two soldiers, one white and one black, return to their home in a small, Southern town after fighting in World War II. After what they have seen in the war, skin color is the least of their concerns. But to their friends and family, race is still everything. Told through the voices of six characters, …
