I was in the kitchen cooking up some breakfast sausage (not chorizo, unfortunately) when this Morning Edition segment aired on NPR Radio, the perfect plug for this gorgeous and robust new volume. It’s being called a “bible” or “encyclopedia” of Mexican cooking, as it contains 600 recipes! But read on and listen on, and you’ll find …
While you make your plans to enjoy the holiday weekend, here are some links for you: Staff picks from Village Books in Bellingham Staff picks from Queen Anne Book Company in Seattle Staff favorites from Annie Bloom’s in Portland Top 10 bookstores in America according to Travel + Leisure Summer reading recommendations from Publishers Weekly Real …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4CR6Hj31-k Terry Tazioli has a great interview with Amanda Coplin on his cable TV program Well Read. Coplin’s debut, The Orchardist, is getting both acclaim—called “a stunning accomplishment” on NPR—and lots of readers (It was number five on the Pacific NW indie bestseller list this week). After the interview, Mary Ann Gwinn, the book editor …
Nancy Pearl is a librarian with an action figure modeled in her likeness; author of the Book Lust series; a regular commentator about books on NPR’s “Morning Edition” and a former bookseller. She recently joined forces with Amazon to create the Book Lust Rediscoveries series, which will bring out-of-print books back into circulation. The partnership …
NPR featured a story recently about the rise of books on the topic of “nostalgia and reclaiming older, more refined ways of life in the modern world.” They featured three “elegantly old school” books: Home Economics: Vintage Advice and Practical Science for the 21st-Century Household by Jennifer McKnight Trontz; Let’s Bring Back: An Encyclopedia of Forgotten-Yet-Delightful, …
Novelist Kaleb Nation talks about his crush on Gayle Forman’s ya crossover novel If I Stay (Dutton, 2009) as part of NPR’s You Must Read This series. If I Stay, set in Oregon, is narrated by a 17-year-old cellist who hovers between life and death after a car accident kills her family. “I hadn’t planned on …
