This is a refreshingly charming story of the steadfast, predictable journalist Vatanen who has a run-in with a hare—bunny, that is. After his car veers off the road, Vatanen goes into the surrounding woods in search of the culprit. He finds the hare, picks it up gently, and puts it into his jacket pocket. He …
To ring in the holidays and celebrate This is Your Life, Harriet Chance! being selected for Pacific Northwest Book Award shortlist, author Jonathan Evison and his regional Algonquin sales rep, Kurtis Lowe of Book Travelers West, made the rounds of Seattle-area bookstores on December 1. Kurtis prepped the stores and planned the itinerary; Johnny signed …
Independent bookstores: where books are a passion, not a product, and where community is real. Click to watch Queen Anne Book Company’s Janis Segress talk about some of the things indie bookstores do best.
“Set in the early 1900’s, in Montana, and written in a voice and style that is hard to put down, harder to forget. Josef mines copper and builds a rich family legacy, while raising his son and daughter who both forge legacies of their own, in literary, industrial and natural worlds. The gorgeous prose is …
Nowhere is the truism “everything old is new again” truer than in pop music, where all the upheavals of the digital era have brought us back to the hit-factory days of Tin Pan Alley, the Brill Building, and Motown, led this time by a handful of Scandinavians who have married ABBA to R&B to produce …
“Ivan Doig’s last book, finished before his April 9, 2015 death, is a story that is destined to live through its readers forever. I savored Donal/ Red Chief/ Scotty’s tales of life and adventure, high jinks and mischief, cowboys and hoboes, love and family. This is one of my top three fiction favorites of 2015… Loved it.” …
“There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.” –Ivan Doig, This House of Sky Ivan Doig, beloved author, passed away April 9, 2015. His loss is felt deeply throughout the literary community and beyond. We collect some memories here. Our thoughts and condolences go …
This weekend, Seattle independent bookstore Queen Anne Book Company celebrated its second birthday. The store was festooned with traditional Dutch birthday streamers as a nod to the heritage of owner Krijn de Jonge, and customers enjoyed homemade honey cake baked by his wife, owner Judy de Jonge. Owner Janis Segress and the staff organized a special …
This is a fascinating non-fiction story of paranoid psychosis brought on by prescription drugs. It explores the realms of philosophy, theology, and psychology in a voice that is both factual and humorous. Guppy is a practicing psychotherapist now, but he once lived and walked the halls of the mental ward in Seattle’s Providence Hospital. My …
It was with sadness and not a little bitterness that we reported the fate of Seattle’s Queen Anne Books this past fall, but all is sweet on the hill today. The blindsided store will rise, on its old turf, as Queen Anne Book Company in late February. From yesterday’s press release: Ever since the doors of …
