Until I was 12 years old we lived in the city, where our house was a short walk to two movie theaters that screened Saturday matinees for kids, matinees comprised largely of 1930s and 1940s westerns—I saw Roy Rogers before he came to television, saw John Wayne in his early horse operas before John Ford …
Receiving a book award for a book without any words was a bit of a surprise and has left me slightly uneasy. It is not as though I think of my book The Great War – a 24-sheet foldout illustration depicting the Battle of the Somme – as unworthy of attention and enormous sales. It …
I moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1996 to write my first novel. My husband is Canadian, and so we settled in Vancouver. I’d never lived on this coast before, but the book I was working on, My Year of Meats, was set in New York and Tokyo, and I felt I could write it …
December is a time of list making, be it goals for the upcoming year, holiday gift recipients, or to-dos-before-the-kids-come-home. At Island Books, a good portion of our time is spent assisting others who need to check off their lists. “I need the perfect book for my sports-obsessed father-in-law, my three-year-old niece, and my hairdresser,” are …
“A poet, a novelist and a festival; it sounds like the set up for a joke,” said Christopher Frizzelle, editor of Seattle’s alternative weekly, the Stranger. What the poet, Maged Zaher; the novelist, Neal Stephenson and the festival, APRIL (Authors, Publishers, and Readers of Independent Literature) have in common and what brought each on stage …
