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 …
We love this DIY trailer from Seattle author Laurie Frankel, and especially the cameos by Virginia Woolf, Eleanor Roosevelt and Edvard Munch’s The Scream. Frankel’s next novel, Goodbye for Now, comes out August 7. Her 2011 debut, The Atlas of Love, was shortlisted for an award from the indie bookstore members of the Pacific NW …
Day 4 here for 28 Authors, 28 Variations on a List, and we’ve got Laurie Frankel, who had the idea to pair some of her favorite books with other gift items, which makes us want to crowd under that umbrella with her and go shopping. Frankel lives in Seattle’s Central District with her husband, her three-year-old son, …
“Strikingly pure of heart, voice and message, The Atlas of Love tells the story of a life lived on the treadmill of academia. It’s likely to be a favorite of your bookseller, because it’s a life that will resonate—a lot of hard work, little traditional payoff, yet, somehow, all worthwhile. Therein lies the brilliance of this …
