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Jan

19

2017

We Should All Be Feminists

Broadway Books’ Inauguration Giveaway Featured on Huffington Post

From the Huffington Post, 1/17/17, by Katherine Brooks Senior Arts & Culture Editor: Bookstore Will Hand Out Free Copies Of ‘We Should All Be Feminists’ On Inauguration Day Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 21st-century feminist manifesto is the perfect inauguration day read. On the occasion of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, an Oregon bookstore is celebrating “new beginnings and …

Jan

18

2016

Huffington Post features Liberty Bay Book Company

From the Huffington Post 1/12/16: Lost in the Stories  by Sara Lindberg I must confess — I LOVE books. I love how they smell when you open them up for the first time. I love how they feel in my hands. I love how heavy the bag is when I leave the store with my treasures. …

Nov

5

2012

6

remarks

Dude, Take My Muffler . . . and Other Surprise Gifts at Annie Bloom’s

People sometimes ask, “What’s it like working at Annie Bloom’s?” and my answer is, “Mostly it’s a gift.” As an example, customers often make comments that are so interesting I write them down on little scraps of paper. It’s like getting a free one-liner to use in a future conversation, which is exactly what I …

Mar

21

2012

When She Was a Child She Lived in Idaho

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho—nowhere near the “Midwest upbringing” alluded to in this Huffington Post intro. (Not only did the article’s author ignore the Northwest, but jumped the Mountain West as well!) Any NW fan of Robinson knows that the fictitious town of Fingerbone from her debut novel, Housekeeping, closely resembles Sandpoint, on …

Dec

12

2011

2

remarks

Amazon Ditchers, We Salute You

Today we checked in with Third Street Books’ Sylla McClellan to see how the weekend went following last Wednesday’s “Ditch Amazon” decree. McClellan says: “We had four people bring in their closed accounts – which was great. But more importantly, we had a lot of positive conversations with people about it (and great sales numbers …

Jul

23

2010

Bookstop List Inspires HuffPost Article

In the June issue of  Footnotes, our newsletter for Northwest independent bookstores, we reprinted a list of comments heard by Cynthia Christensen’s husband, Charlie, when he was managing their store, The Book Stop in Hood River, OR, while Cynthia was out sick. Charlie, whose day job is in an emergency room at the local hospital, was …

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