Jonathan Evison has become a bit of a darling in the book world, and it’s no wonder why. Indie booksellers love him because he’s an advocate for indie bookstores. His publisher, Algonquin Books, loves him because he’s charismatic and willing to get out there among booksellers and readers. And readers love him because, well, …
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bar, washing dishes, working car lots, telemarketing sunglasses, and making an ass of myself on FM radio, I wrote seven unpublished novels.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 …
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. …
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 …
Jonathan Evison’s 2008 novel, All About Lulu (Soft Skull Press), is a funny and sweet first crush of a book about a boy’s mostly unrequited love for his stepsister and a cast of quirky characters with their own obsessions (from body building to poultry). With help from some adoring indie booksellers, many of them on …
