With 74 Jeopardy! wins under his belt, the most wins ever on the game show, Ken Jennings might be expected to be a dry sort. Instead he’s a goofball with a killer wit (he’s not above “your mom” jokes). Not just the Jeopardy guy, Jennings has gained celebrity status for his charismatic appearances on The …
Village Books staffer (and occasional NWBL contributor) Lindsey McGuirk was interviewed recently by fellow Village staffer Rachel Hanley for the store’s newsletter, and she got McGuirk to recommend a ton of her favorite books. We’re reprinting the interview here: Lindsey McGuirk realized she belonged in the book business when she attended her first Book Expo …
When you’re sitting in a bookstore café with a fellow book lover, Bad Company belting it out from the speakers behind you, the sun streaming in through skylights, you know things are good. A recent trip to Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle to talk with Jamil Zaidi, a store manager and the current president …
If you’ve seen the book trailers for Wicked Plants and Wicked Bugs, you know that Amy Stewart is not just a diligent researcher but that she’s wicked quirky and fun. She knows how to make anything (earthworms, weeds, bedbugs) a topic you want to read. That’s why her books continue to end up on The …
Beginning as a weekly coffee date between Jennie Shortridge and Garth Stein, the Seattle7Writers has turned into a league of superfriends in the writing world. The group includes nine core members and more than 30 “friends.” To give you a sampling of who we’re dealing with, writers who support the group include Tom Robbins, Jim …
We’ve all been there. Some kid brags and brags about the great book they just read and then rubs your nose in the fact that you can’t read it, no one else can, because it isn’t out yet. Oh, the scars of childhood. Well, little Miss Braggy Pants, you don’t know about aunt Lindsey, the …
Anyone who has read Chelsea Cain’s gory and intense thrillers about serial killer Gretchen Lowell could easily conclude that the author is a sordid woman who has an air of darkness. Anyone who has actually talked with her knows differently. Cain is lively, quick to smile, prone to self-deprecation and at the ready for a …
Caribou Island, the latest from Legend of a Suicide author David Vann, is a novel of storm-beaten Alaskan landscapes and the weathered relationships of its characters. A long-married couple, Gary and Irene, build a cabin on an island in the middle of a remote Alaskan lake in an effort to rebuild their life together but …
