The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) is a non-profit association of independent bookstores from five Northwest states, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and British Columbia. The Association produces educational and promotional events and materials for its members and offers literacy, free speech, and author promotional vehicles through its member stores. Since 1965, the PNBA Awards …
David James Duncan’s new novel, Sun House, defies any kind of simple or neat description; its length is daunting (over 700 pages) and the subject matter is challenging, but with determination you will be rewarded with an unforgettable story. By turns intriguing and disturbing, maddeningly complex and simply brilliant, confusing and enlightening, hilarious and deeply moving, …
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. We’ve seen a lot of Barbie-pink displays lately, but this week’s bestseller display naturally …
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. In the past, we’ve covered two-word titles, but this week, we’re counting the beats …
From Oregon Public Broadcasting July 14, 2018 This week on “State of Wonder,” some of the Northwest’s most prominent writers come together to share stories and memories of the man the “New Yorker” called “the Portland sage.” It’s hard to imagine a more quintessentially Northwest writer than Brian Doyle. He was not from Oregon, but he …
From David James Duncan and William Kittredge to Kathleen Dean Moore and John Daniel, to William Ruckelshaus and Bruce Babbitt, this is a wonderful anthology of thoughtful pieces on issues public and personal from the heart of the Pacific Northwest. For more info, visit Open Spaces or University of Washington Press.
We asked Rick Bass and David James Duncan to tell us about their new collaboration, The Heart of the Monster, a half fiction/half non-fiction advocacy book whose proceeds go to All Against the Haul. Bass and Duncan have joined All Against the Haul in protesting the construction of a permanent industrial corridor along rural roads in …
David James Duncan and Rick Bass, two Montana authors who are practically royalty for their contributions to the Northwest canon, have teamed up with photographer Frederic Ohringer to publish an advocacy book in the mold of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans. The Heart of the Monster: Why the Pacific Northwest …
Carl Lennertz at HarperCollins calls The River Why by Montana’s David James Duncan “one of my favorite novels of all time.” Carl is, among other things, an editor at HarperCollins. He knows his books. We do, too, and we agree with Carl. In 1984 the independent booksellers of the Northwest gave Mr. Duncan an Award …
