Portland author and artist Joe Sacco won a 2014 PNBA Book Award for his 244-page illustrated panorama, The Great War. This month on Lithub, he has a stunning piece about our current crisis and how it might be seen in the future. It is titled Will We One Day Honor the Veterans of the Great …
51 a. According to recent census numbers, Spokane, Washington is a city of 209,000 in a county of 476,000 in a metropolitan area of roughly 670,000. b. I am roughly one of those people. c. Almost five years ago, I wrote a now comically out-of-date essay (or was it a short …
Receiving a book award for a book without any words was a bit of a surprise and has left me slightly uneasy. It is not as though I think of my book The Great War – a 24-sheet foldout illustration depicting the Battle of the Somme – as unworthy of attention and enormous sales. It …
If the University of Idaho were not located in Moscow—right where the state’s handle attaches to its pan—the town itself would likely be no more than a crossroads, with, like many small towns in the West, a more or less equal number of churches and taverns, maybe a grain elevator or two. Moscow is a …
I moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1996 to write my first novel. My husband is Canadian, and so we settled in Vancouver. I’d never lived on this coast before, but the book I was working on, My Year of Meats, was set in New York and Tokyo, and I felt I could write it …
I’ve been doing a lot of book touring recently, which means that I often live out of one small carry-on suitcase for weeks and even months at a time. In many ways I quite like this. I can step away from the clutter that is my real life and pretend that I am a monkish …
Yesterday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association announced the shortlist for the PNBA 2014 Book Award. The judges for the award are booksellers. To be eligible for nomination, books had to published in the last year and written by an author living in the Pacific Northwest. Up to six of the books will be chosen as …
