Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity is a memoir in essays about identity, hierarchy, and the illusion of being right. It is a book about a hard fall from a high horse, the trouble with attempting to hear yourself in an echo chamber, and the pursuit of honesty over agreement. It is a book intended to …
The winners for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 2022 Northwest Book Awards have been announced. The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) is a non-profit association of independent bookstores from five Northwest states, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. Since 1965, the annual Book Awards have recognized such luminary figures in Northwest literature as Ivan Doig, Ursula K. Le Guin, David …
This Is My America released at the beginning of a reckoning that’s been long overdue—the untended roots of race in America. These origins draw parallels not only to slavery and mass incarceration but to open wounds festering below the surface. My novel was born from many early lessons on race as a Black girl growing …
My brother and I made our dad’s headstone ourselves. We bought a bag of Quikrete from Home Depot. We built a form, poured the cement, and carefully pressed metal letters in as the slab cured. We kept the words simple; Loyd’s name, relevant dates, and a fragment of his favorite poem. If you love something, …
The Pacific Northwest Book Award Committee recognized late author Brian Doyle with an Indie Spirit Honor for his body of work and vigorous support of independent booksellers in the Northwest and beyond. Doyle passed away in May 2017. We republish this essay that he wrote upon winning a 2016 PNBA Award in memory of his …
I am really honored to have been selected as a winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award. In reading the moving essays by the other winners about what it is like to be a writer in the Pacific Northwest, I cannot help but return—as I always return, so many times in a day that it …
I never planned on moving so much. For almost twenty years, my husband (and eventually our daughter) and I have been moving every few years. To a new house, a new county, a new town. All the while trying to figure out which, of all these places, to call home. We weren’t locals anywhere, not …
The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association is a non-profit trade association that supports independent bookselling, literacy, and free speech in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. Each year since 1965, the Pacific Northwest Book Awards have celebrated exceptional books written by Northwest authors. PNBA is pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Pacific Northwest Book Awards. …
Queen Anne Book Company in Seattle will host the first of the 2017 PNBA Award Winner celebrations. On Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 7:00 (after-hours at the bookstore), fans can fête Sherman Alexie and his award-winning picture book, Thunder Boy Jr. The store requests that readers email qabc@qabookco.com to get on the guest list. Please let …
From Broadway Books’ store newsletter: Fall has truly arrived, and it is as lovely as ever. We traveled to Tacoma last weekend to attend the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association meeting, and along the way we marveled at the changing colors of the leaves– so gorgeous! The highlight of this meeting each year is meeting so …
