Seattle publishing legend Dan Levant died last week of lung cancer at the age of 81. Levant began his publishing career in the mid-sixties in New York at Doubleday but headed West late in the decade to Seattle where he became a social activist, worked in marketing at the University of Washington Press, founded Madrona …
49 Writers is a six-month-old collaborative of Alaskan writers who maintain an interesting blog, and a local writing center. Yes, the are ambitious. They recently announced their Book Bag 2010 Fundraiser, based on an idea stolen from Ayelet Waldman: “We need your help to sell our 50 Corvax McCarthy raven logo tote bags
Somehow, I had managed to miss blogger Rose City Reader. Where have I been? She subtitles her blog “Book notes from a compulsive ‘list’ reader.” Today she reviews The Fishes and Dishes Cookbook, saying that it “is a real adventure,” with a subtitle that “only hints at the fascinating lives of these daring women.” Fishes …
