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Pulitzer Prize-winner

Jan

25

2022

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Anthony Doerr

Work and Play: An Original Essay by 2022 PNBA Award Winner by Anthony Doerr

By the time he was twenty-nine, Charles Darwin had puzzled his way toward two-thirds of his theory of natural selection. He understood that plants and animals passed traits (hair color, say, or beak shape, or flower scent) down to their offspring. And he understood that those traits were not passed down perfectly. We resemble our …

Jun

24

2021

Firekeeper's Daughter (cover image is a stylized moth or butterfly illustrations containing faces and feathers and flames)

Bestseller Spotlight: Indigenous Voices

It’s time for a Thursday Theme, where we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. We celebrate Native American and indigenous stories on this week’s list. The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Yellow Bird by Sierra Crane Murdoch An …

Jul

6

2020

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Nickel Boys, is out in paperback. . . The Nickel Boys follows Elwood Curtis as he is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy. Curtis falls in with a fellow “delinquent” named Turner, and the novel explores the very different reactions to the terrible system that …

Apr

21

2015

All the Light We Cannot See

Pulitzer Picks PNBA Award Winner
“All the Light We Cannot See”

The 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction came as no surprise to many Northwest booklovers! Revisit our coverage of this fantastic novel by clicking on this link for an original essay by the author, reader recommendations, and much more. Congratulations to Idaho author and literary luminary Anthony Doerr!

Mar

21

2012

When She Was a Child She Lived in Idaho

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho—nowhere near the “Midwest upbringing” alluded to in this Huffington Post intro. (Not only did the article’s author ignore the Northwest, but jumped the Mountain West as well!) Any NW fan of Robinson knows that the fictitious town of Fingerbone from her debut novel, Housekeeping, closely resembles Sandpoint, on …

Mar

6

2011

Money Shot by Rae Armantrout

“Describing Pulitzer Prize-winner Rae Armantrout’s poetry means attempting to condense work that is already piano-wire taut . . . The relationship to song in her poetry is similar to that in a Thelonious Monk composition. Rhyme and rhythm are at work, very intelligent, unexpected, but the music is interior—to read her poetry is to overhear …

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