From Tom Nissley, owner of Phinney Books and author of A Reader’s Book of Days: There’s a moment in the life of a writer, and the life of a book, that they don’t tell you about in school: when you get an email from your editor saying, “Sorry, but your book has been remaindered” (which …
You may have heard of The Wake, and if you have, the thing you likely heard about it is that it’s told in a sort of invented version of Old English that you get used to quite quickly. That’s true, and solving that easily deciphered puzzle is part of the fun of the book (most of …
Great news rang out in the bookselling world this week when Carol Santoro, owner of Santoro’s Books for 29 years, announced that she sold the brick-and-mortar bookstore in the Phinney/Greenwood neighborhood of Seattle to author Tom Nissley (A Reader’s Book of Days) and his wife Laura Silverstein (owner of Glittersweet, the local company behind the …
“Seattle author Tom Nissley a master of minutia, having gained renown in 2010 when he appeared on Jeopardy and won eight times, the third highest winner in regular play. He brings that mastery, with a focus, to his new book, a day-by-day literary companion, a love letter to literature, a guide to the books most …
