Broadway Books’ PNBA Book Award Party
Portland’s Broadway Books hosted a fantastic award presentation party for two of the 2017 Pacific Northwest Book Awards winners, Alexis Smith and Kelly Sue DeConnick. Congratulations!
Ocean: An Essay by 2017
PNBA Award Winner, Annie Proulx
I fall in love with landscapes, seascapes, rivers and lakes the way other people fall in love with humans. I grew up in New England and the Atlantic Ocean was my ocean. There were family gatherings on Block Island, and when we lived in Maine the long empty beach at Reid State Park was our …
Sherman Alexie Accepts 2017 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award at Queen Anne Book Company
From the Queen Anne & Magnolia News, by Joe Veyera Sherman Alexie is a familiar face around Queen Anne Book Company. Soon after the store reopened in 2013, he spent a day at the shop as a bookseller, an instance that later led to the launch of the “Indies First” effort to draw people to …
First 2017 PNBA Award Presentation Celebration: Sherman Alexie 2/2/17 at Queen Anne Book Company
Queen Anne Book Company in Seattle will host the first of the 2017 PNBA Award Winner celebrations. On Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 7:00 (after-hours at the bookstore), fans can fête Sherman Alexie and his award-winning picture book, Thunder Boy Jr. The store requests that readers email qabc@qabookco.com to get on the guest list. Please let …
Books, Boats, and Beginnings: An Essay by 2017 PNBA Award Winner Alexis M. Smith
In 2008, when I went back to work at Powell’s Books after maternity leave, I took whatever sections needed a keeper. I had been the head of Young Adult and Fairy Tales and other sections in Children’s books for a few years. I considered myself an expert, a harbor of knowledge about out-of-print editions and …
Place of Mind: An Essay by 2017 PNBA Award Winner, Robert Moor
When I look up from my writing desk and out of my back window, I see a forest of moss-draped cedar trees, which sway and lean against one another like impossibly thin, somewhat tipsy dancers at the end of a long night. Beyond the trees, out of sight, down a twisting, nameless footpath, lies …
