I first read Brian Doyle’s The Grail (Oregon State University Press, $18.95) while serving on the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Awards Committee years ago. I fell in love with his abundant affection for people and place and his exquisite prose. Over the years, I had the pleasure of meeting him several times. I was just discovering his poetry/poetic essays and …
The Pacific Northwest Book Award Committee recognized late author Brian Doyle with an Indie Spirit Honor for his body of work and vigorous support of independent booksellers in the Northwest and beyond. Doyle passed away in May 2017. We republish this essay that he wrote upon winning a 2016 PNBA Award in memory of his …
What did I think of when I learned that my peculiar collection of essays had won a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award? Weirdly, not the barrels of cash and fine wines and excellent cheeses that would surely come my way, or the hordes of somber graduate students that would soon be studying my semicolons, or the …
The 2016 Pacific Northwest Book Awards Winners have been announced! A panel of nine booksellers from the region chose the winners from nearly 300 nominations of books written by authors from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, or British Columbia. Here are the winners, with brief descriptions by the Award Committee: Call Me Home by Megan Kruse (Seattle, WA) …
Obviously, this is not actually a musical, but it got your attention, didn’t it? First, I would like to thank the other eight members of this year’s PNBA Book Awards Committee of booksellers: Michael Coy, Madison (Butler) Duckworth, Tim Hunter, Dianah Hughley, Tina Ontiveros, Carol Spurling, Casey Stryer, and Claudia Wohlfeil. This was my third (and …
The 2016 Pacific Northwest Book Awards Shortlist has been announced! A panel of nine booksellers from the region whittled the list to twelve from nearly 300 nominations. Five previous shortlisted authors (indicated with a *), including one two-time winner (with a +), made the cut. Up to six winners will be announced in early January. Here …
“I was honored to talk. I was smiling the rest of the day at the interesting mix of speakers—the different speeds and approaches. I take refuge in the inarguable fact that I am not a speaker at all, not a performer or a lecturer or a wise person, which is hugely freeing, because I can …
