The Northwest author, who died last year, left behind a collection of whip-smart, stylishly brilliant work. By Jeff Baker, Special to The Seattle Times. When Lucia Perillo read her poems at a restaurant in Portland last year, her readers showed up to let her know what she meant to them. One by one, they approached …
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 …
This week we honored Jonathan Evison with a PNBA Award for his novel The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving. (It’s PNBA Award #2 for Evison, who won last year for West of Here.) Today, he kicks off six weeks of essays by our 2013 winners with a well-argued case for real books. Let’s disambiguate right off …
