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Sep

14

2021

Congratulations to the WA State Book
Award Winners and Finalists!

Fiction Winner: The Cold Millions by Jess Walter (HarperCollins) Fiction Finalists: The Second Star by Alma Alexander (Crossroad Press) Living Color: Angie Rubio Stories by Donna Miscolta (Jaded Ibis Press) Vera Violet by Melissa Anne Peterson (Counterpoint Press) The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite (Avon Impulse) Biography and Memoir Winner: The Magical Language of Others by E.J. …

May

27

2021

Bestseller Stoplight: By the Numbers

Every Thursday, we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. This week, we noticed a lot of numbers in titles. Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service by Carol Leonnig (Hardcover Nonfiction, #7) The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (Hardcover …

Nov

6

2020

The Cold Millions by Jess Walter:
TRIPLE Face Out

The gorgeous writing, vivid setting, compelling characters, and engrossing story aren’t even the best parts of this novel. Instead, I just keep marveling at how Jess Walter takes events from history to illuminate our present while keeping them rooted in their own time, from the labor movement to class, race, and gender equality and civil …

Oct

15

2014

Seattle Gets Ready for Lit Crawl
October 23

From the awesome organizers of Lit Crawl Seattle… Lit Crawl Seattle is back! Our third annual romp through Capitol and First Hills happens Thursday, October 23rd from 6pm until the squirrels go home. This year’s lineup features more than 65 authors in 21 readings, all presenting their work free to the public, with many venues …

Jan

31

2014

3

remarks

Jess Walter

ADDENDUM TO STATISTICAL ABSTRACT FOR MY HOMETOWN, SPOKANE WASHINGTON

          51 a. According to recent census numbers, Spokane, Washington is a city of 209,000 in a county of 476,000 in a metropolitan area of roughly 670,000. b. I am roughly one of those people. c. Almost five years ago, I wrote a now comically out-of-date essay (or was it a short …

Jan

6

2014

PNBA Book Awards Announced

The Book Awards Committee of the Pacific Northwest Bookseller Association (the pro-indie bookstore professional organization behind this blog) announced the six 2014 PNBA Book Award winners today! Over the next month, nwbooklovers.org will publish essays from the winning authors and local independent northwest stores will host the winners for celebrations. Committee comments for the winners (as …

Jul

12

2013

Goodbye for Now

Extra! NW Authors on the
National Newsstand

Northwest authors are well-represented in Real Simple magazine’s summer reading list for 2013. The magazine asked 31 best-selling authors to recommend books for summer, and four recent books by authors from Washington and Oregon were chosen. The full list is a blast, but here are the stars from our region: Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter …

Jun

26

2013

Book-It Theatre's poster for the play based on the novel

The Financial Lives of the Poets on stage

Seattle’s Book-It Repertory Theatre has only a few more shows before the end of the run of “The Financial Lives of the Poets,” a fantastic stage adaptation of Spokane author Jess Walter’s novel. The last show is the Sunday matinee on Sunday, June 30 at 2:00. If you are in Seattle and can, buy tickets …

Sep

5

2012

What’s The Rush?

“I have always been one to take notes. Whether I’m driving in a car, sitting in a bar, watching a movie, reading a book, a pen is never far from the hand. In those days I wrote often in pocket-sized moleskin notebooks. I filled dozens and dozens of them with sentences I admired, research unearthed, …

Aug

31

2012

Shann Ray on
The Elliott Bay Book Company

Thanks to Spokane author Shann Ray for kicking off our series of NW authors writing about their favorite indie bookstores with this tribute to Elliott Bay Books. It makes a trifecta of tributes for Ray, who wrote earlier this year for the Tin House blog about his hometown store, Auntie’s, and the first bookstore he …

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