Besides in her novels, Zora Neale Hurston left us a rich legacy of black cultural history through her recordings as an anthropologist of the African American folk narrative, striving to, as she puts it “set down essential truth.” Here in this vital addition to her already known work, dating back to 1927, are interviews documenting …
The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, the regional trade association for independent bookstores, just concluded its annual fall trade show this week. This means that the PNBA Board of Directors gathered, and when that happens, there’s a tradition of going around the room to introduce ourselves and something we’ve read lately. Below are the books that …
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Sometimes we all need a bit of swashbuckling adventure in our lives. As a reader who went through a heavy “classic literature” phase, this one emerged as one of my favorites. Though its sized might seem intimidating, the pages will absolutely fly by! –Stephanie, Village Books, Bellingham and …
Montana author Michael Finkel delves into the story of Christopher Knight, a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for three decades, in his new book, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit. The interview below is from his publisher, Penguin Random House. You can read the …
My coffee sat turning cold as I became absorbed in Abby’s journey from high school soccer to the U.S. Women’s National Team, and scoring a world-record number of international goals throughout her career. Abby shares a frank and deeply humanizing discussion of the events that shaped her along the way. She grapples with addiction, coming …
“If you are interested in book publishing during its ‘golden age’ of the last half of the 20th century, before the takeovers by conglomerates with their relentless pursuit of the bottom line, before Amazon and the disruptions it has created, before e-books–then this is the book for you. “Hothouse chronicles the life of one of …
