We love, love, love this story about two Powell’s booksellers geeking out over Richard Brautigan’s former lover. The woman stopped by the store last week to pick up a copy of Brautigan’s story collection Revenge of the Lawn and mentioned to bookseller/author/editor/publisher Kevin Sampsell that she was the woman on the cover, the one smiling over …
In a recent blog post, David Shapiro points out a couple or minor errors in the story the The Oregonian ran about his new Portland publishing company, Craigmore Creations—but he’s definitely not complaining. “The story is well written and it is our first major press appearance,” he writes. Shapiro started Craigmore Creations when he couldn’t get New York …
The Morning News, “amid a great thrum of imaginary literary fanfare,” has announced the 16 contenders for its 7th annual Tournament of Books. The list, which includes some of the most talked about books of 2010, is decidedly lacking in Northwest authors, but we mention it here because the event is sponsored, in part, by Powell’s …
“Zero History reads like a Graham Greene novel penned by The Magnificent Bastard. This is the third entry in Gibson’s Blue Ant cycle. His Bigend trope has all the pushes and pops of Zero History‘s contemporary at the cinema, Inception. Hubertus returns as the puppet master, linchpin, and advertising exec who simultaneously makes Don Draper look like …
The Oregonian reports that Powell’s has purchased Anne Rice’s personal library of 7,000 books and is selling them online. Whether you’re a fan or not, it’s fun perusing her stacks, imagining yourself buying her copy of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde ($65) or The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers ($7.50).
