Treat yourself to this interview with Annie Bloom’s Will and Ruby. It’s less than 18 minutes long, and it’s professionally produced by Oregon artist Leif Olsen, who also composed the music, as part of theliferecording.com. Olsen records the life stories of parents, grandparents, widows, and widowers—then sets them to original music—because no one’s story should …
From KUOW, the Seattle area NPR station, on Tuesday May 20, 2025: Patricia Murphy and Katie Campbell reported Tuesday afternoon: After more than 100 years in business as an independent bookstore, the University Book Store in Seattle’s U District will soon be home to Barnes & Noble. The bookseller, which has about 600 stores across …
Our friends at Island Books of Mercer Island, WA are celebrating their 50th year in business. For their Golden Anniversary, they are posting wonderful store histories by writer and former bookseller Miriam Landis on their blog. https://www.tumblr.com/mercerislandbooks/715794400935084032/miriam-and-lola-deane-in-conversation
The Seattle Times’ Paul Constant wrote a lovely profile of Magnolia’s Bookstore in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood, “one of Seattle’s most isolated neighborhoods.” For the article, Constant interviewed store owner, Georgiana Blomberg. Blomberg purchased the store in 2001 after working there for almost a decade. Constant also visited the store on a busy Farmers Market Saturday …
On Saturday, September 8, 2018, Auntie’s Bookstore in Spokane, WA celebrated its 40th anniversary. The store opened in 1978– originally under the name Book & Game Co. and owned by Chris O’Harra and Shannon Ahern. The store moved to its current location, the historic Liberty Building in downtown Spokane, in 1994. John Waite purchased the …
