Independent journalist Naomi Klein found herself repeatedly confused with another Naomi, whose public profile and name were just similar enough that she found herself again and again attributed with the other’s paranoid crackpot conspiracies and her damaging and abhorrent claims. Obsessively, Klein witnessed the other Naomi’s rise to far-right Q-Anon fame, which led her to …
Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. Tonight, Thursday February 8, PNBA hosts an online celebration for the winners of its 2024 PNBA Book …
Join the 2024 Pacific Northwest Book Awards Celebration! Register for the online Zoom event now, then follow the link you’ll get in your email to Zoom on Thursday, February 8, 2024 at 6:00 pm PST. We look forward to celebrating with you!
Now, more than ever, we seek community. We need opportunities to bring us together, to bring us into nature, to explore with curiosity the many ways we are connected to place, and to connect with those places and beings. That was part of the initial ethos of this anthology. We wanted to celebrate the diversity, …
When I first encountered Aubrey Gordon, it was under the pseudonym “Your Fat Friend.” Her experiences, knowledge, and ability to write about fatness resonated deeply with me and many other readers, who viewed her as a confidante, a researcher, a social justice advocate. More people felt seen for the first time. In much of Aubrey’s …
I grew up reading Judy Blume and the Sweet Valley High series. Book after book, I never saw anyone on the page who resembled me or had similar family experiences. What’s worse—I didn’t notice. Then, in my early twenties, I attended a Native College where I was assigned to read novels by Indigenous authors. Wow, …
In the early ’80s I lived near the Frog Rock on Bainbridge Island. It was cheaper to live on the island and ride the ferry than to live in Seattle. On rare days, when I had a little money, I would treat myself to bookstore visits to Eagle Harbor Book Co. in Winslow and Elliott …
When I was on tour for my memoir, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, I ended the tour in Atlantic City – a city that I hadn’t returned to since I was a child, accompanying my father while he gambled each day at Caesar’s Palace. In the title chapter, I write about him disappearing into …
The winners for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 2024 Northwest Book Awards have been announced. The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) is a non-profit association of independent bookstores from five Northwest states: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska. Since 1965, the annual Book Awards have recognized such luminary figures in Northwest literature as Ivan Doig, Ursula K. Le Guin, …
