Jonathan Raban, who made his home in Seattle for decades before his passing in January of 2023, worked on his memoir for over decade. Father and Son goes on sale September 19, 2023, and Mr. Raban will be on bookstore displays as well as many booksellers’ minds. Raban won a Pacific Northwest Bookseller Award in …
Two Pacific Northwest booksellers recently joined the American Booksellers Association Board of Directors. Jenny Cohen of Waucoma Books in Hood River, OR and Tegan Tigani of Queen Anne Book Company in Seattle, WA started on the board this spring. They were the point people on a bookstore bus tour for booksellers at a recent national …
“Layer tracks of Sherman Alexie, Jess Walter and Eminem. Add a touch of the Beats, some Dante, and the fuzzy sensibilities of the movie Slacker. Toss that all into the Silicon Valley, adopt a stance that’s street-wise but not world-weary, and you just may come up with something resembling What We Are. This novel is, …
