Have you read Adriana Herrera yet? Adriana Herrera has quickly become one of my must-read authors. The first novel in her American Dreamers quartet (American Dreamer) is the story of Dominican-American food truck owner Nesto and librarian Jude. Like all of Herrera’s books, it is full of food, family (biological and found), and flirting. It’s …
Next chapter: COVID-19 and Oregon’s indie bookstores How sellers adapted, and what changes they may carry forward as the state reopens by: Hannah Ray Lambert Posted: May 19, 2020 on koin.com CLACKAMAS COUNTY, Ore. (KOIN) — In mid-March, independent bookstores across the country closed their doors indefinitely in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Now two months later, …
From Shelf Awareness January 30, 2019: Congratulations to Third Street Books, McMinnville, Ore., which celebrated its 15th anniversary. Owner Sylla McClellan wrote to customers: “Years ago my husband told me that I was basically unemployable. I’ve been self-employed for so long that I would make a lousy employee; too independent and not great at taking …
On Saturday, May 16th at 11 am, Third Street Books in McMinnville, OR gets in the spirit for the annual UFO Festival. The store will host two earth-bound author/illustrators. Fly in at 11 am to do some out-of-this-world drawing of aliens with authors/illustrators Mark Fearing and Kurt Cyrus! This event is sure to be a blast. You …
She spent her early years in Yamhill, Oregon, went to grammar and high school (and set loads of her stories) in Portland, got her library science degree at UW and was a librarian in Yakima. So, yeah, we claim her as our own and never tire of ruminating on the reasons we love her. In …
We’re pleased to introduce you to Anna Keesey if you haven’t met her yet. Her debut novel, Little Century, came out this week and is already getting raves from all over the country. Keesey is a graduate of Stanford University and of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Her work has appeared in a number of journals and …
Congrats to Third Street Books in McMinnville, OR for a successful cash mob Thursday night. At the gathering, booksellers rang in 116 transactions in just over an hour, totaling about $3,400, owner Sylla McClellan tells us. “WOW!” she wrote in the store newsletter. “All I can say is WOW! . . . This was truly a community …
“Flatscreen is a fantastic coming-of-age novel: innovative in its narrative style, riotously funny and at times deeply poignant, somehow raunchy and endearing at the same time. The story of Eli Schwartz and his friendship with washed-up former TV actor Seymour J. Kahn is not easy to forget. And if you are not easily shocked by …
Sylla McClellan is Past President of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and a scrapper of a small business owner (she runs two in McMinnville, Oregon). And she’s not going to take it anymore. If you are on her newsletter mailing list, today you received the following declaration. After you read this humdinger of a teaser, …
In high school Sylla McClellan wanted to work at A Clean Well-Lighted Place in Larkspur, CA. She never got the chance, and the store is now closed. But McClellan has both sought and built her own well-lit places for books. After college in 1995, she worked at both Powell’s and Borders in Portland. She bought Third Street Books …
