From Village Books and Paper Dreams in Bellingham, WA: Introducing the Bellingham-themed Monopoly game where the traditional railroad properties are Port of Bellingham properties and the Boardwalk belongs to Western. It has been a year-long project for the Bellingham Regional Chamber of Commerce, and we think you’ll enjoy seeing iconic Bellingham businesses represented on the game board — …
Over the weekend, folks gathered at Paulina Springs Books in Sisters, OR to celebrate the life of Brad Smith, the owner of the bookstore, who passed away May 20, 2018. Recently, Brad was also remembered in the newsletter for the natural food co-op in Bellingham where Brad had worked. Lee Ann Giles, who served with …
“We have a lovely new bench in front of the store. Customers love to take selfies with Samuel.” –Kelly Evert, Village Books On Saturday, May 26, the Fairhaven community celebrated the unveiling and dedication of a bronze sculpture of Mark Twain seated on a bench in front of Village Books and Paper Dreams. In August 1895, Samuel …
The day I decided to write Dishing Up Washington, a cookbook that celebrates the state’s foodways through recipes and stories, I went to my neighborhood farmers’ market. It’s on Seattle’s Phinney Ridge, in the northern part of the city, near the giant windmill sign that keeps watch over the city’s famous Red Mill Burgers. From …
“Kurt Vonnegut has long been in the standing of the only author who wrote a short story that not only left an impression on me, but made me fall in love (See “Long Walk to Forever” from Welcome to the Monkey House). Of course I should’ve known that Sherman Alexie could join those ranks. This …
“The focus of our business, our mission, has always been community. If we thought our mission was to sell books exclusively, we would’ve lost track of things a long, long time ago. Selling books, while that is incredibly important to us, is a strategy to help us create community . . . that whole idea …
“If you know The Bloggess, then you know Jenny Lawson. If you don’t know Jenny Lawson, then let’s just say it’s time you do . . . unless you hate to laugh. Then you don’t want to know her. But if you’re a mom, daughter, mother or father of a daughter, wife, husband to a wife, Texan, …
Day 21. Chelsea Cain is the author of The New York Times bestselling thrillers Heartsick, Sweetheart, Evil at Heart, and The Night Season. Her Portland-based thrillers, described by The New York Times as “steamy and perverse,” have been published in over 30 languages, recommended on “The Today Show,” appeared in episodes of HBO’s “True Blood” …
Over at the Village Books blog, co-owner Chuck Robinson, who’s been a leader in NW bookselling for the last 30 years, talks about the uncertain state of his profession and ponders a few ideas for the survival of indie stores. Village is recognized in the September issue of Fast Company Magazine as one of several …
“To call a piece of writing ‘visceral and yet elegant’ has become something of a literary cliché, but it’s hard to talk about this memoir without invoking the description. Despite his lyrical, earthy prose, Dubus pulls no punches and dulls no edges as he describes growing up in a drug-laden and brutally violent mill town …
