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Mar

31

2020

From Dave Eggers for McSweeneys.net:
“Bookstores Can Be Saved”

An excerpt from the Dave Eggers piece from McSweeneys.net March 27, 2020 We will lose a lot in these next months. We’ve already lost too much. One thing we don’t need to lose is our independent bookstores. You have watched all the episodes of Norsemen. I’ve watched them twice. Now we need books. For so many, …

May

24

2016

Rory Douglas

In the MMA Cage with Rory Douglas

A front-end web developer by day, Rory Douglas still finds time to stretch his literary legs with creative writing. Inspired by the scene of the local amateur MMA circuit in the Seattle suburbs, Douglas followed his brother’s career as a fighter for two years and shared his observations and anecdotes for a regular column for …

May

3

2013

2

remarks

The Lit, The Salted Cod,
and That Horn. . .

When NWBookLovers first toyed with the idea of launching a Book-Food-Music series, George Carroll, discerning in all walks, took our first genre-blending challenge. They should have, but the Portuguese travel industry did not underwrite this post. In 2009, Philip Graham expanded a series of dispatches, originally posted on McSweeney’s, and published it through the University …

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