To ring in the holidays and celebrate This is Your Life, Harriet Chance! being selected for Pacific Northwest Book Award shortlist, author Jonathan Evison and his regional Algonquin sales rep, Kurtis Lowe of Book Travelers West, made the rounds of Seattle-area bookstores on December 1. Kurtis prepped the stores and planned the itinerary; Johnny signed …
“This novel has humor, romance, a touch of suspense, but most of all love—love of books and bookish people and, really, all of humanity in its imperfect glory.” —Eowyn Ivey, author of the Pacific Northwest Book Award-winning novel The Snow Child and author of this bookstore essay. Buy the book about an indie bookstore from Ivey’s …
“Jonathan’s earlier book, West of Here, was a favorite all across the NW. This latest work of his is quite different both in context as well as writing style, but equally engaging and thoroughly satisfying. While the characters are certainly intriguing, particularly Trev, a teenage boy with muscular dystrophy, it is the plotline I found …
This week we honored Jonathan Evison with a PNBA Award for his novel The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving. (It’s PNBA Award #2 for Evison, who won last year for West of Here.) Today, he kicks off six weeks of essays by our 2013 winners with a well-argued case for real books. Let’s disambiguate right off …
As he told it, at 3 a.m., just five hours before he was to speak in front of a breakfast throng of nearly 200 indie booksellers, Jonathan Evison hailed a cab from the hotel and headed to Kinkos. He had made the decision that he didn’t want to cry. Evison needed help to tell his …
Fern Ridge Public Library Director Colin Rea sent us this shot showing off the “sweet shirt” he won in our recent Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving giveaway, and the book’s publisher, Algonquin Books, had a little something to show off this morning, too. Two new Jonathan Evison sites have gone live just two weeks prior to …
One of the premier giveaways at this year’s Book Expo America was the limited edition T-shirt for Jonathan Evison’s forthcoming novel, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving. By some stroke of luck a small pile made it back to the Algonquin Books’ offices, where they were squirreled away in a closet, much to the delight of …
Algonquin Books Marketing Director Craig Popelars claims he got the subscription for his daughter for Christmas. Whatever you want to believe, this MAD magazine photo he sent is pretty good. Apparently, the new issue features a spoof on a Banana Republic catalog called ‘Banana Republicans.’ Popelars goes on: “It features Newt, Rick, Michele, and the …
On Jan 31 Jonathan Evison had a dual celebration at his hometown bookstore, Eagle Harbor Book Company on Bainbridge Island, Washington, for the paperback release of his bestselling novel West of Here and in honor of his 2012 Pacific Northwest Book Award. You can read his acceptance essay, “Why We Endure,” here on NWBL. The Eagle Harbor crew …
Over a twenty year period spanning my 20s and 30s, during which I cobbled together a living variously hacking up roadkill, slinging spaghetti, checking water meters, tending bar, washing dishes, working car lots, telemarketing sunglasses, and making an ass of myself on FM radio, I wrote seven unpublished novels. It’s what I did. I wrote …
