plastic is an engaging, epic workplace poem based on Rice’s own experiences as a factory worker. As the night progresses Rice references coworkers, the music on the factory floor, and his tattered copy of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. —Caitlin Baker, Island Books, Mercer Island, WA Discover the epic in the everyday at Island Books and …
Seattle’s Madison Books shared this photo of staff favorites with a caption summarizing some of the booksellers’ favorite books of 2025: Amy’s favorites include Ioffe’s Motherland and Newitz’s Automatic Noodle. Meghan’s include Wynn-Williams’ Careless People and Greig’s The Book of I. Christina’s include Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny and Alameddine’s The True True …
In the wake of the fame granted by her bestselling, Booker-winning debut novel, The God of Small Things, Roy has mostly turned her writing to political reporting and activism. But the death of her mother, a larger-than-life figure who left her feckless husband and built an acclaimed school from the sheer force of her will …
From lithub.com via Steerforth Press: How Working at a Grocery Store Helped Me Become a Better Writer Karleigh Frisbie Brogan is a writer living in Portland, Oregon. She was a 2024 Oregon Literary Fellow and a 2022 Rona Jaffe Scholar at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her work has been published in The Atlantic, Washington Post, Vol. 1 …
What an absolutely beautiful book and way of thinking about the world. Kaishain shows us the value of applying queerness to more than just sexuality and gender, by using it as a lens to find wisdom from the creatures often maligned by (especially white) humans. The reader is invited to listen to learn from slugs, …
Memorial Day honors the sacrifice of those who died in military service. If you choose to read and reflect, independent bookstores can help you find the right book. Here are some suggestions: The Women by Kristin Hannah The Wives by Simone Gorrindo Facing the Mountain by Daniel James Brown Facing the Mountain (Adapted for Young …
The publisher describes Patrick Hutchison’s Cabin as a cross between Henry David Thoreau and Bill Bryson. Maybe a cross between “Uh uh, don’t do it” and “Are you out of your freakin’ mind?” is closer. Holding down dead end jobs while trying to launch his writing career is going nowhere. Hutchison spots an online ad, …
I can say this without spoiling anything, but the epilogue to Becoming Little Shell begins with reflections from “a little green house high on a hillside that overlooks Butte, Montana.” It is mid-November of 2021 and, as I wrote, I was in that house enjoying a residency where I largely completed the first draft of …
A heartbreaking and beautiful memoir of a young woman navigating so many obstacles to reach higher education all while being separated from her family. –Waucoma Books, Hood River, OR From the publisher about this book: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and what happened when, at fifteen, her …
Here’s a fun memoir about a guy—Mark Kamine—who worked his way up in the film industry, the hard way—beginning with free gigs and finally gaining a position with “The Sopranos.” He was with that series for all six seasons and has lots of great stories to tell. But he also gives us a lot of …
