Here’s a big thanks to the 28 authors who sent us holiday gift lists for our inaugural 28 Authors, 28 Variations on a List series, which wrapped up yesterday. Authors, your lists were generous and often funny and full of ideas that showed off your bookselling acumen. You sent us searching for books we’d never …
Days 27 & 28. For the grand finale of 28 Authors, 28 Variations on a List, we’re pleased to present the author/illustrator and life team Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis, whose collaboration Wildwood has been hailed as both beautiful to behold and to read. Wildwood has been number one on the NW Independent Bestseller List …
When what to our wondering eyes should appear, but Pete Fromm in a stache with his uncommon good cheer! Fromm is a four-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for his novels As Cool as I Am and How This All Started; a story collection, Dry Rain; and memoir, Indian Creek Chronicles. The film As …
Day 24. Montana novelist Kevin Canty agreed to be our poster-author for last-minute shopping, and boy are we glad we asked. We’ll let him tell about his shopping technique, with links to his favorite stores, Fact & Fiction and Shakespeare & Co in Missoula: Well, it’s happened again: first week of December, the postal person drops …
Day 23 and we’ve got children’s author/illustrator Leslie Patricelli (if you have small children, you’ll recognize her bright and pleasing board books), who says: “It’s looking a lot like Christmas here in Sun Valley, Idaho. It’s feeling like it, too. It was 5 degrees outside when I brought my kids to school this morning! Brrr! Though there’s …
At a holiday caroling party the other night, we were all gathered around the piano in our Christmas sweaters belting out Christmas songs arranged for us in plastic binders when in walked a tall, dapper man, a friend of a friend of a friend, in what appeared to be a seersucker suit carrying a puppy. …
Day 20. The first day of Hanukkah. Scott Nadelson is the author of three story collections, most recently Aftermath. A winner of the Oregon Book Award for short fiction, the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize and the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award, Nadelson teaches creative writing at Willamette University and in the Rainier Writing Workshop …
Day 17. Willy Vlautin. It was a Paul Kelly song, based on Raymond Carver’s Too Much Water So Close to Home, that inspired Vlautin to start writing stories. He has published three novels in that spirit, The Motel Life (2007), Northline (2008) and Lean on Pete (2010), all characterized by what one reviewer called “melancholy …
Our Day 15 author bookends her list in the smart, poetic, alluring way of her memoir, The Chronology of Water. The Chronology is on the shortlist for a Pacific Northwest Book Award from the indie booksellers of this region; a good number of other year-end lists and non-lists; and was recommended by authors on Day 7 and Day 12 …
It’s Day 12 and we’re thrilled to present Chuck Palahniuk’s gift list. Palahniuk is a two-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award (for Fight Club, 1997 and Lullaby, 2003); an author who holds the distinction of causing the most people to faint at readings since Dickens; and the kind of guy who would woo a …
