NWbooklovers congratulates Tina Ontiveros, bookseller and book buyer at Klindt’s Booksellers in the Dalles and President of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, on the publication of her memoir, rough house. rough house will be available at independent bookstores everywhere this month. Waucoma Books in Hood River, OR is hosting a virtual book launch event with …
Foreword Reviews announced its 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards and the Gold Winner for Anthologies is Burnt Tongues: An Anthology of Transgressive Stories edited by Chuck Palahniuk, Richard Thomas, and Dennis Widmyer. Chuck Palahniuk is, of course, Chuck Palahniuk. Richard Thomas, despite the bio notes you may encounter declaring him to be John-Boy, is Editor-in-Chief …
Brian Doyle’s first novel, Mink River, published to critical and bookseller acclaim earlier this year, is set in a small town on the Oregon Coast called Neawanaka. An unusual novel, it has no main character but is rather a woven narrative encompassing the stories of many characters, including Irish-Americans and Native Americans, as well as …
Read Matt Love's spirited (does Matt Love write any other way?!?) paean to the novels of Oregonian Don Berry on the Powell's blog. The trilogy Trask, Moontrap and To Build a Ship, all set in pioneer-era Oregon, were reprinted a few year Endometriosis Bible & Violet Protocol s ago by Oregon State University Press. Love …
