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Brad Craft

May

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2018

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Independent Bookstore Day 2018 in Review: Oh, What a Party!

On Saturday, April 28, 2018, people celebrated Independent Bookstore Day around the country. The Pacific Northwest was chock-full of bookish delight! We love this recap of Independent Bookstore Day/ Seattle Bookstore Day from adventurers/bloggers Emily and Aaron of Two Dusty Travelers: “twodustytravelers 12 hours. 2 ferries. 123 miles. 19 independent bookstores. 2 @seabookstoreday Grand Champions!! 🎉🏆 We bought …

Jan

24

2018

RIP Ursula K. Le Guin

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” – Ursula K. Le Guin, October 21, 1929 – January 23, 2018 As University Book Store bookseller, author, and nwbooklovers doodler Brad Craft so perfectly put it, Thank you for all our journeys together. We …

Dec

25

2015

Brad Craft Christmas

Merry Christmas, booklovers!

From all of us to all of you, may you have a lovely Christmas! Whatever your celebrations, we hope you have a delightful day, and we hope you get a chance to sit down with a great book. Enjoy these scenes of the season.

Sep

18

2015

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Brad and Nick

The OTHER B&N: Brad and Nick of
Breakfast at the Bookstore

  Last week, Brad Craft and Nick DiMartino of University Book Store in Seattle recorded their 46th Breakfast at the Bookstore podcast, marking their one year anniversary of Nick eating maple bars, Brad enjoying more unpredictable treats, and the two sharing delightful book banter to get readers everywhere more excited about books new and old. …

Aug

18

2015

Ivan Doig, as drawn by Brad Craft

Celebrating Ivan Doig Day

I KNEW IVAN DOIG AS A WRITER before I knew him as a friend, and even though by the end I knew the friend as well as I have known anyone, the writer never ceased to loom over me. It was as if Twain or Cather had strolled off the page and shown up for …

Apr

10

2015

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In Memoriam: Ivan Doig (1939- 2015)

“There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.” –Ivan Doig, This House of Sky Ivan Doig, beloved author, passed away April 9, 2015. His loss is felt deeply throughout the literary community and beyond. We collect some memories here. Our thoughts and condolences go …

Mar

28

2014

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The Serial Doodler by Brad Craft

The Unwritten Books

Everybody does it. I look at the books around me every day in the bookstore and I imagine the books I don’t see; the books I’m unlikely to ever see published, or even written. It isn’t a symptom of dissatisfaction with the books there are. Every day I get to work in the bookstore I …

Feb

21

2014

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Brad Craft's The Serial Doodler event at UBS

Party Planning

There is doubtless a right way to do this sort of thing. People do it all the time.  Professionals, even.  No doubt careful planning, experience, good taste, connections, all of that is required to successfully launch a new book.  I’m sure that’s right.  Good times.  On the other hand… When one has produced just a …

Feb

19

2014

Brad Craft's The Serial Doodler event at UBS

Our Doodler’s Book Event

On Tuesday, February 25 at 7 pm, University Book Store in Seattle hosts our columnist, their bookseller, everyone’s author and favorite doodler, Brad Craft for an event for his latest book, The Serial Doodler. If you’ve never enjoyed the hilarious cartoons on his internationally notorious website Usedbuyer2.0 then you’re in for a spectacular opportunity. University Book Store’s …

Dec

24

2013

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The Serial Doodler by Brad Craft

The Workings

The Holidays can make the strangest of bedfellows, no?  And here I don’t mean that awkward combination of cousins in Grandma’s guest room, but rather gifts, givers, and books.  One of the deep mysteries of working the retail Season, as it were, has always been the unlikely and unpredictable popularity of this or that title …

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