Saturday, November 21st, 2015 from 3-5 pm Phinney Neighborhood Center (6532 Phinney Ave. N. Seattle, 98103) Think about holiday shopping. Imagine malls. Parking. Crowds. Now imagine a Saturday afternoon in November, walking up the deliciously worn wooden steps of the Phinney Neighborhood Center to find a boutique bookstore, created especially by local indie bookstore Secret …
Congratulations to Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Washington author of Urban Bestiary, and Rick Bass, Montana author of All the Land to Hold Us, whose books have been selected as nonfiction and fiction finalists for the 2014 Orion Book Award. Each spring, the Orion Book Award is presented to books that deepen the reader’s connection to the …
I am not, by nature, a joiner. Do I have to? is my gut reaction when the word “community” is bruited about. Maybe it has to do with being a writer. I think most deeply and live most fully when I’m alone with the screen and keyboard. Community has always struck me as a distraction. I …
How does a natural history book about an everyday bird become so popular that it lands a spot on the Pacific Northwest Independent Bestseller List? Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness (Little, Brown, 2009) is charming Northwest booksellers and readers, inspiring us to become urban naturalists and to pay closer attention to those …
