“One of my favorite things as a bookseller is The Discovery: finding a book in the pile of advance reading copies that speaks to me in a way that is utterly unique and compelling, a story that sings directly to my heart and stuns me with its voice. So far, Dean Bakopoulos’s latest novel is …
There’s no real news hook to this post—just a link to a cool new website from one of our favorite NW authors. If you’re a Sherman Alexie fan, you’ll want to go here to learn what Alexie is reading (Wendy Videlock, Lydia Davis, Zachary Schomburg) and thinking (about gay marriage in New York, his forthcoming book …
In his National Book Award finalist selection and 2007 Pacific Northwest Book Award-winning book, The Zero, Seattle author Jess Walter crafted a tale that rose to the top of a loosely united genre of post-9/11 inspired novels. In The Financial Lives of the Poets, Walter has entered the realm of what we might cleverly call “recession fiction.”
