If the land and people of Alaska beckon you, stop and take a close look at this memoir. Already read one of Kantner’s books? Then you know the treat you’re in with this one. If you haven’t, this one is a great one to begin with. Living above the Artic Circle, Kantner keeps the stories …
As the dawn brightens outside my sod igloo, I see the ground is white. The trees are waving madly in a snowstorm. For a second, I feel my heart beat faster—yesterday was warm and sunny, and this morning I have to set off for Tacoma and the PNBA book conference. It won’t be pleasant in a blizzard. …
No Catherine the Great. Not even a shirtless Putin. We’re talking authors. And we’re talking Idaho. When Robert Wrigley entered the annals of Northwest literary royalty last Saturday night at his hometown store, BookPeople of Moscow, among the one-hundred-or-so attendees in the house to enjoy the presentation of his 2014 Pacific Northwest Book Award for …
Because we live in a flavor-of-the-month world, it’s a rare thing to find a review of an “old book” without some kind of archival search. We were tickled to discover a wholly original and spirited take on Denis Johnson’s 1992 collection, Jesus’ Son in a Paste magazine column this week. The Idaho author had one …
What you are about to see is a BOOK TRAILER for My Teenage Werewolf. Book trailers – like film trailers but, you know, for books – are the newest thing in web-based promotion. Oh, I said the P word. Authors are not supposed to say the P word. We are restricted to the C word …
