“Jean Patrick loved to run and dreamed of an Olympic track medal to bring together the Hutu majority and his Tutsi minority in Rwanda. His Hutu coach believed in the dream; the President shook his hand. Running the Rift builds toward the horrific, swift and all-encompassing genocide, unimaginable sadistic carnage gainst hundreds of thousands of Rwandan …
We asked the booksellers at Eagle Harbor Book Company to document Jonathan Evison’s kick-off event for his recently released second novel, West of Here, for which the fanfare and uniformly rave reviews from booksellers have reached such high pitch, it almost feels like a parody. Jane Bowman, the store’s events manager, sent us this account of …
We haven’t yet read West of Here by Bainbridge Islander Jonathan Evison, but we have to say it’s got one of the prettiest websites we’ve seen. The book is getting a huge buzz in advance of it’s February publication by indie-hit-maker Algonquin. Evison has been loyal to indie booksellers since they helped promote his sweetheart …
“Blind Your Ponies by Stanley Gordon West is a book about basketball like Moby Dick is a book about a whale. Yes, there’s basketball in the rundown town of Willow Creek, Montana, and a coach whose team has the dismal record of zero wins and 93 losses. When two new kids show up, it gives Coach …
