Last week’s shooting tragedy in Tucson tamed much of the political rhetoric in this country—temporarily. As individuals and groups get back to business as usual, Oregon author John Daniel pleads that it’s time to give more consideration to the methods of our messages.
A committee of independent booksellers has announced the winners of the 2011 Pacific Northwest Book Awards. The committee chose four books from its Shortlist and are honoring a fifth author with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Congratulations to Brady Udall (The Lonely Polygamist), Karl Marlantes (Matterhorn: A Novel of Vietnam), Anthony Doerr (Memory Wall), Sarahlee Lawrence (River House: …
In his National Book Award finalist selection and 2007 Pacific Northwest Book Award-winning book, The Zero, Seattle author Jess Walter crafted a tale that rose to the top of a loosely united genre of post-9/11 inspired novels. In The Financial Lives of the Poets, Walter has entered the realm of what we might cleverly call “recession fiction.”
Another Way the River Has collects the finest nonfiction writings of Robin Cody, a native speaker who probes the streams and woods and salmon that run to the heart of what it means to live and love, to work and play, in the Pacific Northwest. His characters—from loggers to fishers to cowboys to the kids …
