Karen Maeda Allman, event coordinator and bookseller at Seattle’s Elliott Bay Book Company, was interviewed by Elaine Ikoma Ko and featured on The North American Post and Discover Nikkei. Below is an excerpt. Let’s talk about your literary life. Did you always have a keen appreciation for books growing up? I actually started out as …
Congratulations to Seattle-based author Don Mee Choi for winning the National Book Award for Poetry for her book DMZ Colony, which was published by Seattle-based Wave Books. Woven from poems, prose, photographs, and drawings, Don Mee Choi’s DMZ Colony is a tour de force of personal and political reckoning set over eight acts. Evincing the power …
From the archives: The March Trilogy is one of the most important graphic novels created. A superbly told history of the civil rights movement, John Lewis’s personal account of the actions of individuals and organizations throughout the South (but focused largely in Alabama) is a gripping, passionate, and richly detailed narrative of the events that would eventually …
Long before Lewis collaborated on his National Book Award-winning comic-book memoir, March [which just won a record-breaking four awards from the American Library Association], he wrote this more traditional memoir, recounting his decades in the center of the civil rights movement, beginning when he was a teenager in Nashville, and the first years of what …
Winner of the 2015 National Book Award (Fiction) “The world is not a dichotomy of black and white– and Johnson captures the grayness of it with everyday, morally complex characters from different walks of life, each facing a crisis of humanity that smacks of tragicomedy. Johnson writes themes of technology, politics, and societal upheaval with …
“Sherman Alexie is brilliant, and this book of assorted stories, poems, essays and social commentary is a testament to his prodigious talent. War Dances won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction, and Alexie’s Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian garnered him a National Book Award. Having said that, I find it difficult to describe this …
