From Miriam Gershow, the author of Closer: This week saw the culmination of a year’s work on the 100 Notable Small Press Books project I started last winter. Forty remarkable reviewers spent 2025 reading small press books, and Lit Hub published the final list on Monday. Click on the image to read the list. Sign up to …
Booklovers from all over joined Beach Books in Seaside, OR to celebrate their 20th Anniversary November 1, 2025. “It was so much better than we even hoped. Music was great, the food and drinks were terrific, and the lines at the checkout were long. We had a grand time.” —Karen Emmerling, owner of Beach Books, …
Oregon author Gabriel Urza, author of The Silver State, was published on lithub.com. When Telling Your Own Story Gets in the Way of Processing Trauma AUTHOR EVENT with Waucoma Books in Hood River, OR Local author Gabriel Urza in conversation with Sierra Crane Murdoch Thursday, Nov. 6th, 6pm at the Hood River Library In Silver State, …
For the second year, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) unveiled its Book Awards Shortlist live on the show floor at the association’s Fall Tradeshow, Sept. 29, 2025. These honorees are now being promoted throughout PNBA’s 170-store membership. Selected by an Awards Committee of independent booksellers from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska, the following …
Dear Reader, I had a great time launching Kitty at A Children’s Place in Portland […] this fall! The event at Boulder Book Store has some history behind it. The last time I appeared on their stage (and they really have a stage!) was to support Noah McNichol and the Backstage Ghost. The date was Wednesday, March 11, 2020, …
Sisters Festival of Books is a multi-day celebration of literature and storytelling in the Pacific Northwest. Taking place in beautiful Sisters, Oregon and occurring across multiple venues, SFOB celebrates all things literature and storytelling – from workshops to poetry & story slams to author events and meet & greets…and even the opportunity to attend a …
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 …
This summer, the staff at Beach Books in Seaside, OR put together a selection of their most-anticipated summer pre-orders. You can see the full list on their Instagram, but here’s a teaser from Alexa’s list. The Society of Unknowable Objects by Gareth Brown, publishing August 12, 2025. (This not a sequel to beloved The Book …
Mary Desch, writing under the pen name MM Desch, brings years of psychiatric expertise to her debut psychological thriller, Tangled Darkness. The novel follows Dr. Leslie Schoen, a psychiatrist who becomes a suspect when a clinical assistant is found dead amid missing opioid allegations. She becomes ensnared in a deadly scheme of clinic conspiracies and …
From LitHub: Miriam Gershow Recommends Zoe Heller, Emily St. James, Jim Shepherd and More I am a writer living comfortably in middle age, embracing every gray hair, shopping the Eileen Fisher racks with glee, and yet I’m obsessed with high school. My new novel, Closer, takes place in and around a public high school in fictional Horace, …
