From Shelf Awareness June 20, 2017 Matthew Sullivan‘s short stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore (out now from Scribner) is his debut mystery novel. He teaches writing, literature and film at Big Bend Community College in the high desert of Washington State. I became an English major in college …
An Indies Introduce Q&A With Lisa Ko By Jessica Stauffer on Tuesday, May 02, 2017 on bookweb.org from the American Booksellers Association Lisa Ko is the author of The Leavers (Algonquin), a Winter/Spring 2017 Indies Introduce adult debut and a May 2017 Indie Next List pick. The Leavers, a story of immigration and adoption, is “a …
Today is the on-sale date for the debut dystopian novel American War. Publisher Penguin Random House asked the author, Portland resident Omar Al Akkad, about the book. For the full interview, visit the publisher’s page. The author has an event at Powell’s in Portland on Friday, April 7 at 7:30. Q: When did you begin working …
The Hour of Daydreams is a gorgeous read that should be relished as one would a piece of dark chocolate cake. Rich with tantalizing characters and delicious prose, this is a novel that readers, both young and old alike, won’t be able to help but savor. —Leslye Walton, winner of a 2015 PNBA Book Award and author of The …
You don’t have to remember the 1980s to deeply “get” this sweet memory trip back to the decade when video games, personal computers, and mixtapes were new. But if you did come of age in the 1980s, look out. All those awkward boy/girl moments, all those songs that comprised the soundtracks of your make-out sessions …
This book is fabulous! It’s like a modern, funnier “Back to the Future” in which the main character explores different versions of himself within different timelines of both his life and the universe. He is trying to save the love of his life from her fate, and ends up endangering the fate of the world. …
Rock music, time travel, romantic angst, and hipster ennui. What else could you possible want from a book? I love this book so much I want to buy a copy for all my friends so we can all read it and then build a house out of the books and live together with my friends …
In Calhoun’s apocalyptic debut, the world is suddenly ravaged by a plague of insomnia. As those who have lost their ability to sleep also lose their sanity, the few who are spared the plague become victims of violence, guilt, and impotence. Calhoun’s vision of this world perfectly captures the apocalyptic struggle: the ways–both horrifying and …
Mulhauser’s debut novel, Sweetgirl, has been compared to a lot of great works, including Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell. Let me just say right off that all of the comparisons are fully justified. From page one, Mulhauser creates fully-dimensional characters that populate this wild ride of a book. The dialogue is often quite humorous and …
A powerful debut from a rising author, published by Portland purveyor of fine literary works, Tin House Press. The narrative, which follows the days of a kidnapped girl who lives in the woods, seems a simple premise on the surface, but there is much more at work beneath the layers of Fuller’s sophisticated, breathtakingly wrought …
