On Wednesdays, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Bestseller list is published. Every week, we love to see what has been most popular in independent bookstores around our region. As we peruse the list, we ponder patterns. Then we present this weekly feature: Thursday Themes. So many covers this week feature vibrant, springtime greens. Enjoy all the new life …
October is always an especially exciting month in the bookseller world, not only because of all the new books being published but also because it’s the month when the books in the Best American Series® arrive in our store! This year’s guest editors are authors particularly well-known to and well-loved by Broadway Books denizens: for …
Every morning lately, it seems we wake to a bleaker world than the one we inhabited yesterday. Fortunately, Rebecca Solnit has been keeping an eye out for little pinpricks of light, untold or forgotten kindnesses that quietly continue to make our world a good, compassionate place. From grassroots movements to spontaneous personal sacrifices, Solnit’s subjects …
In her companion to Men Explain Things to Me, Solnit gives us another eloquent, penetrating book on feminism and patriarchy. Her short essays cover substantial territory, tracing gender boundaries to their origins, yet there is an optimism here that gives this book a propulsive energy. A must-read. –Renee P., Powells.com, Portland, OR Whether for a …
A recommended reading list from James Crossley, our A Cup of News columnist: Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit, perhaps the best essayist writing today. She’s extremely knowledgeable about how America got to where it is (sample this London Review of Books think piece for some of her analysis of the current situation), and …
Rebecca Solnit puts her brilliant, curious mind to the task of telling the stories of the city she loves in this gorgeous literary atlas.
