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Ann Patchett

Jan

26

2023

Bestseller Spotlight: Creativity Sparkers

On Wednesdays, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Bestseller list is published. Every week, we love to see what has been most popular in independent bookstores around our region. As we peruse the list, we ponder patterns. Then we present this weekly feature: Thursday Themes. This week’s bestseller list contains a lot of titles and books with creative themes …

Feb

17

2022

Bestseller Spotlight: Bookseller Authors

Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. Sometimes the themes come from the covers, sometimes the titles, but today, we’re drawing on …

Jan

13

2022

Bestseller Spotlight: Day and Night

It’s time for a Thursday Theme, where we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. As the days get longer, we noticed that there’s a day and night theme to some of our regional bestsellers. Which are you rooting for? The Dawn of Everything by …

Mar

31

2020

From Dave Eggers for McSweeneys.net:
“Bookstores Can Be Saved”

An excerpt from the Dave Eggers piece from McSweeneys.net March 27, 2020 We will lose a lot in these next months. We’ve already lost too much. One thing we don’t need to lose is our independent bookstores. You have watched all the episodes of Norsemen. I’ve watched them twice. Now we need books. For so many, …

Nov

21

2019

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett’s newest novel gives us two separate portraits: one of a family and one of a house. Danny, the son of a self-made man, and presumptive heir to both his business and the luxurious Dutch House, narrates this story. I found I could never predict where the story was going to go. As soon …

Feb

16

2012

2

remarks

Shelving Books? A Few NW Booksellers Weigh In About the Future of Indie Bookselling, an Article by Miranda Roethler

Miranda Roethler reported and wrote a comprehensive, insightful article about ebooks and the future of bookselling for one of her classes at Oregon Episcopal School, where she’s a junior. We’re publishing a condensed version of it here. Roethler is a native Portlander. She says she spends her free time swimming, hanging out with friends, watching old …

Dec

1

2011

2

remarks

Parnassus, North: A Conversation with Ketchikan Bookseller Maggie Freitag

On the same day that Ann Patchett held the grand opening for her new bookstore, Parnassus Books, in Nashville, Tennessee, last month, another Parnassus Books was celebrating its move from one location, across a creek, to another, in Ketchikan, Alaska. Owner Maggie Freitag says that the publicity from Patchett's store generated a fair amount of …

May

29

2011

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

“Vogel pharmaceutical’s star researcher has gone rogue down in the Amazon. She hasn’t checked in with headquarters in two years. Anders is sent to fetch her, but his two-week project stretches into months, and then the horrible letter arrives disclosing his death. Details are brief. The head man at Vogel wants his star researcher brought …

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