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Dec

2

2011

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28 Authors, 28 Variations on a List: <br />Day 2. Anthony Doerr

It's Day 2 of 28 Authors, 28 Variations on a List, and we've got a lively and versatile list from Boise author Anthony Doerr. In addition to being an eloquent book recommender, Doerr is the author most recently of Memory Wall, which was a New York Times Notable Book, winner of The Story Prize, and winner …

Jan

7

2011

Pacific Northwest Book Awards Announced

A committee of independent booksellers has announced the winners of the 2011 Pacific Northwest Book Awards. The committee chose four books from its Shortlist and are honoring a fifth author with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Congratulations to Brady Udall (The Lonely Polygamist), Karl Marlantes (Matterhorn: A Novel of Vietnam), Anthony Doerr (Memory Wall), Sarahlee Lawrence (River House: …

Jan

7

2011

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Books, Memory and the Twelve Bright Stars Scratched Across Page 302

Whenever we buy a book, we say we buy a “copy” of it. We buy a copy of Gravity’s Rainbow, say, and we carry our copy home. We open it; we fall into it. And it is here that the word “copy” fails. Because what I experience when I read Gravity’s Rainbow, or Beloved, or …

Dec

10

2010

Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr

“Six stories, so beautifully and completely crafted, each leaving the reader to want more. Doerr writes likes he’s lived all over the world, revealing the human spirit in as many different ways as there are places. Lithuania, China, South Africa, WWII Germany, and our own Midwest, each presented in perfect prose. There is no letdown …

Aug

26

2010

Doerr Takes the Long, Looping Way

Boise author Anthony Doerr talks about the inspiration for his recent novel, Memory Wall (Scribner, 2010) on Dave Weich’s engaging Read Roll Show. While you’re there, check out some of the other author videos, Brady Udall, Aimee Bender and Rebecca Skloot among them. If you’ve spent time on the Powell’s site and blog, you’ve probably been …

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