On Wednesdays, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Bestseller list is published. Every week, we love to see what has been most popular in independent bookstores around our region. As we peruse the list, we ponder patterns. Then we present this weekly feature: Thursday Themes. If we ignore subtitles, there are many titles on this week’s list that are …
On Wednesdays, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Bestseller list is published. Every week, we love to see what has been most popular in independent bookstores around our region. As we peruse the list, we ponder patterns. Then we present this weekly feature: Thursday Themes. The days are shorter, and we seem to be surrounding ourselves with warm, glowing …
Published in Shelf Awareness March 14, 2018 Matt Young is a Marine Corps veteran, teacher and writer. His work can be found in Incoming: Veteran Writers on Coming Home,Consequence magazine, Split Lip, Word Riot, Tin House, River Teeth and many others. He teaches composition, literature and creative writing at Centralia College in Washington State. He is …
To call Days Without End “Blood Meridian lite” might sound dismissive, but it’s not. (In fact, for many readers, it might be just right.) You can’t get any darker than Cormac McCarthy’s Western hellscape, and while Barry’s novel encounters much of the same arbitrary mass slaughter as it makes its own way around the 19th-century West, it also …
“Utterly unique, unforgettable prose . . . I read this book through in an afternoon. Heller has gained a career-following fan.” —Janis, head buyer at Eagle Harbor Book Company. Denver author Peter Heller, an adventure writer and longtime NPR contributor, will join Eagle Harbor Book Company, Liberty Bay Books and WEST SOUND READS at the …
“This is a book that grabs you in the first few pages and doesn’t release you until the end. The comparisons to Cormac McCarthy are easy. The sense of place and unforgettable characters are similar to McCarthy but Machart is his own man. This is a story you haven’t read before and won’t easily forget. …
