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Paul Constant

Jan

21

2022

Phinney Books' VOTE window

Seattle Times Features Phinney Books

Congratulations to Phinney Books in Seattle, the subject of a recent, wonderful bookstore profile by Paul Constant in The Seattle Times. Paul Constant Special to The Seattle Times January 18, 2022 Neighborhood Reads About eight years ago, Phinney Ridge resident Tom Nissley spent a long winter’s night catching up with two old friends who now …

Aug

24

2021

Edmonds Bookshop Announces Ownership Transition

Congratulations to Michelle Bear, assistant manager and soon-to-be owner of Edmonds Bookshop in Edmonds, WA! Congratulations, too, to Mary Kay Sneeringer and David Brewster, who owned the store for twenty years. The good news broke in the Seattle Times August 18, 2021. As the Edmonds Bookshop team relates in a piece in My Edmonds News, …

Aug

6

2021

The Seattle Times Features Magnolia’s Bookstore

The Seattle Times’ Paul Constant wrote a lovely profile of Magnolia’s Bookstore in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood, “one of Seattle’s most isolated neighborhoods.” For the article, Constant interviewed store owner, Georgiana Blomberg. Blomberg purchased the store in 2001 after working there for almost a decade. Constant also visited the store on a busy Farmers Market Saturday …

Mar

3

2020

From The Seattle Times: Madison Books,
a Neighborhood Gem

by Paul Constant for The Seattle Times (originally posted Jan. 21, 2020) Nourishing “long roots”: In a year, Madison Books has forged an essential role in one of Seattle’s oldest communities Decades before Seattle Center was built, Madison Park was where Seattle came to have fun. Early settlers in Pioneer Square would escape the hustle …

Jan

3

2020

A display table at Secret Garden Books in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood

From The Seattle Times:
Niche picks: A handful of Seattle neighborhood bookstores name their bestselling titles of 2019

By Paul Constant Special to The Seattle Times Neighborhood Reads If you want to learn about a Seattle neighborhood, browse the shelves of its independent bookstores. Local bookstores succeed when they place the interests and aspirations of their neighbors over the fads and excesses of national bestseller lists. And every time we buy books from …

Oct

4

2019

Neverending Bookshop logo illustration

From The Seattle Times: “A fairy tale in Edmonds: The Neverending Bookshop is a crafty destination for fantasy lovers”

by Paul Constant for The Seattle Times Once upon a time in Kingston, Kitsap County, a little girl fell in love with books. Annie Carl was born with a rare spinal birth defect called a lipomyelomeningocele — a fatty deposit at the base of her spine a little bigger than a pea. It’s a condition …

Nov

23

2018

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Indies First: Shop Small Saturday November 24, 2018

Award-winning author Jason Reynolds, who is serving his second term as the 2018 Indies First spokesperson, the American Booksellers Association and American Express, and Reynolds’ publisher, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, are working together to make available 20,000 special edition copies of Reynolds’s Ghost to young readers in underserved communities this holiday season. Through the initiative, participating independent booksellers will …

Jun

9

2017

Dan Ullom and Tina Ullom of Brick & Mortar Books

Seattle Review of Books Interviews Brick & Mortar Books

Talking with an owner of the Seattle area’s newest bookstore, Brick and Mortar Books Published 4 days ago at the Seattle Review of Books by Paul Constant Last Tuesday, the Seattle area’s newest bookstore opened its doors. Located in Redmond Town Center, Brick & Mortar Books is a general-interest new bookstore that will carry up …

Apr

26

2016

Open Books

Double Blessings for Seattle Bookstores

Great news! Wide World Books & Maps Reaches Fundraising Goals — from Shelf Awareness, April 25, 2016 Congratulations to Wide World Books & Maps, Seattle, Wash.: the store’s GoFundMe campaign has met its $30,000 fundraising goal. “This means we’ll be staying open and will be restocking the store with the latest travel books, maps, and gear …

Oct

4

2013

Maged Zaher

The Stranger Genius is a Poet

Speaking to Maged Zaher just before the Stranger Genius Award Ceremony commenced at the Moore Theatre, I asked whether he felt nervous. Not exactly nervous, he said. He already knew Neal Stephenson was a genius. Paul Constant, book editor for the Stranger, explained that the two writers had hit it off after the Literature showcase …

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