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Jul

8

2022

Happy Bookseller-iversary to Green Bean Books’ Earl Dizon!

Portland people (plus anyone up for a trip to the Rose City): You can party with a gem of a bookstore celebrating a gem of a bookseller on Saturday July 30th starting at 11:30 am. Here’s the invitation from Green Bean Books: Earl’s 10th Year Anniversary Celebration! It’s hard to believe it’s already been ten years since …

Apr

2

2019

Garber on the uptick in political works being published: “Recently, given the present political climate, there’s no shortage of political books. And if I’m not mistaken, fiction sales nationwide in the industry are down a little, where as, nonfiction sales are sky high. And it’s kind of counterintuitive because you’d think people would want to escape the daily news cycle and just disappear into a good novel. As the sales seem to indicate, we are finding the opposite.” David Stuckey/OPB

Oregon Public Broadcasting Asks:
10 Questions With Jeremy Garber Of Powell’s Books

by David Stuckey for OPB.org (originally posted Dec. 15, 2018) You’re Jeremy Garber. You’ve loved books your entire life and for the past 13-plus years you’ve worked at the Camelot of literary institutions: Powell’s Books. First as a cashier, then as a bookseller, then as a used-book buyer and now as the events coordinator for …

May

31

2016

Robert Sindelar

Five Questions with Robert Sindelar
of Seattle’s Third Place Books

by Andrea Dunlop, for the Girl Friday Productions blog With hundreds of literary events each month and a thriving bookstore culture, Seattle is a place where a love for reading runs deep. Maybe it’s the luck of living in a progressive, arts-centric city or maybe it’s the nine or so dreary months of each year …