From Broadway Books in Portland, OR: Bill Holmes is our second featured customer of the month, another Broadway Books regular we look forward to seeing often on his near-weekly visits to the store. You can check out his book picks via this link or in the store on the shelf above staff recommendations. To preview other …
In January of 2025, about a month before One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This was set to be published in North America, I received an email from my editor. He said he was worried: we’d gotten no confirmed major media at that point. By this he meant national radio, morning TV, that …
Just look at the book joy from Broadway Books in Portland, OR! The staff put together holiday picks. If you need some inspiration, start here! Kim’s picks Mary’s picks Megan’s picks April’s picks Carrie’s picks Elie’s picks Elisa’s picks Lin’s picks Steph’s picks
Holiday Book Chat November 16, 2025 4:00- 6:00 pm One of the most entertaining events of the year! Join the Broadway Books team as they share the best books of the season for giving and getting. Each $15 ticket comes with a voucher for $15 to use towards your purchases that night, snacks and beverages, …
Portland Book Week starts today! Here’s the overview from the Portland Book Week website: Spend a week exploring 60+ independent booksellers in the Portland and Vancouver areas. Bookstore Crawl – Visit as many local, independent bookstores as you can. Pick up a bingo card at any one of the participating bookstores. Literary Events – Check …
Cheers and best wishes to Sally McPherson of Broadway Books in Portland, OR and James Crossley of Madison Books in Seattle, WA! Sally McPherson has been a co-owner of Broadway Books, but is retiring from that significant role (and hopefully finding more reading time). Sally will continue to be a significant part of the store …
From Broadway Books’ newsletter: One last piece of news, both exciting and sad. Sally [McPherson] has decided to retire from full-time work at the bookstore at the end of 2023, after working in the store for seventeen years (sixteen as co-owner). Because it is impossible for her to let go entirely, she will continue to …
An excerpt from “Three sisters face shadows of disrupted lives in Portland author’s debut novel” by Amy Wang for the Oregonian/ OregonLive Leave it to a family therapist to write a novel about adult sisters each working their own way through a shared childhood trauma. Dian Greenwood’s debut novel, About the Carleton Sisters, features three …
From Marissa at Grass Roots Books & Music in Corvallis, OR, originally posted on nwbooklovers on April 11, 2018: In Zumas’s all-too-familiar dystopia set in a small Oregon coastal town, Roe v. Wade has been overturned. The narrative explores the complexity of childbearing — both the desire for and not for — and the reduction …
From Literary Arts LITERARY ARTS CONGRATULATES THE WINNERS OF THE 2022 OREGON BOOK AWARDS [This week], during our first in-person ceremony since 2019, the winners of the 2022 Oregon Book Awards, selected by panels of out-of-state judges, were announced. KEN KESEY AWARD FOR FICTION Omar El Akkad of West Linn What Strange Paradise: A Novel (Alfred A. …
