O, my temptress. How can I, a mere mortal, resist your golden light? Your entrancing perfume? I pull you closer. My lips part in sweet anticipation … Putting down my pint glass, I laugh. Here we go again– this strange split personality of mine. Half novelist, half beer blogger and columnist. Home for me is …
Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. We thought it might be fun to have Thursday Themes where we shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list. Is it a trend? A coincidence? An eccentric millionaire seeking comfort by purchasing books from independent bookstores around the region to …
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. While big, national preorder campaigns for much-anticipated fall titles served up some fresh titles (like this and this) for the bestseller list, we also noticed that books with local connections …
Ever since freshman year of high school, when I was first introduced to the likes of Great Expectations and The Ox-Bow Incident, talking about books—for me—has always come a close second to actually reading them. So, in December, I boarded a plane in Philadelphia to live every bibliophile’s dream: selling books. I couldn’t have felt …
I started writing a piece about Comic-Con and missing it this year and what I was doing to get my nerd on while stuck in Portland and which books and authors I was going to miss most by not being in San Diego, but then a couple of things happened. First, I looked at this …
Fourth of July Creek, the debut novel by Portlander and former Montanan Smith Henderson, has been named the winner of the 2014 Montana Book Award. Three honor books were also named, and there are no obscurities here. The four-book list is a NW All-Star roster for 2014. Fourth of July Creek was an Indie Next …
Astoria’s alternative paper Hipfish Monthly published an article today with a comprehensive guide to some of the great indie stores of the north Oregon Coast and the southern Washington Coast. There are short profiles of a dozen stores and their owners. The Coastal booksellers are presented as a smart, hearty, lively group who run cozy shops and love what they do and are game for weathering the storms and uncertainties of bookselling.
