“I read The Shell Collector last summer— the perfect season to enjoy this rich, first collection by Anthony Doerr. The stories have a strong sense of place, weaving between the balmy jungles and reefs of Africa to the brisk winters of Montana and the coast of Maine. The experience of reading Doerr’s stories leaves the reader on …
It's Day 2 of 28 Authors, 28 Variations on a List, and we've got a lively and versatile list from Boise author Anthony Doerr. In addition to being an eloquent book recommender, Doerr is the author most recently of Memory Wall, which was a New York Times Notable Book, winner of The Story Prize, and winner …
The Morning News, “amid a great thrum of imaginary literary fanfare,” has announced the 16 contenders for its 7th annual Tournament of Books. The list, which includes some of the most talked about books of 2010, is decidedly lacking in Northwest authors, but we mention it here because the event is sponsored, in part, by Powell’s …
A committee of independent booksellers has announced the winners of the 2011 Pacific Northwest Book Awards. The committee chose four books from its Shortlist and are honoring a fifth author with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Congratulations to Brady Udall (The Lonely Polygamist), Karl Marlantes (Matterhorn: A Novel of Vietnam), Anthony Doerr (Memory Wall), Sarahlee Lawrence (River House: …
Whenever we buy a book, we say we buy a “copy” of it. We buy a copy of Gravity’s Rainbow, say, and we carry our copy home. We open it; we fall into it. And it is here that the word “copy” fails. Because what I experience when I read Gravity’s Rainbow, or Beloved, or …
“Six stories, so beautifully and completely crafted, each leaving the reader to want more. Doerr writes likes he’s lived all over the world, revealing the human spirit in as many different ways as there are places. Lithuania, China, South Africa, WWII Germany, and our own Midwest, each presented in perfect prose. There is no letdown …
Congrats to Northwesterners Anthony Doerr and Karl Marlantes, whose novels made the New York Times’ “100 Notable Books of 2010” list. The list will appear in the Dec. 5 print edition of the New York Times Book Review. Both books also appear on a 2010 Shortlist of the Best Books from Northwest Authors, which were …
Boise author Anthony Doerr talks about the inspiration for his recent novel, Memory Wall (Scribner, 2010) on Dave Weich’s engaging Read Roll Show. While you’re there, check out some of the other author videos, Brady Udall, Aimee Bender and Rebecca Skloot among them. If you’ve spent time on the Powell’s site and blog, you’ve probably been …
“This is the latest book from our beloved Boise author Anthony Doerr. We’ve been anxiously waiting for this one, and it’s everything we hoped for!” —Rediscovered Bookshop, Boise From the publisher: “Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr’s new stories are about memory, the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that …
