It was an overcast day in June when we met with Ivan Doig and his wife, Carol, at their home. We settled into the study where Doig writes, next to a wall of windows facing the Puget Sound and the islands. Sitting high above the pewter-colored water, we watched the Kingston ferry making its way …
I was caught up in The Flight of Gemma Hardy, by Margot Livesey, when this passage stopped me cold and made me remember a scene from the children’s bookstore I worked in: “I was at the kitchen door when Robin started to scream. A few seconds later he barreled into me, his cheeks scarlet. In …
Ah, Ray. Like most people my age, I discovered Ray Bradbury in high school. It was Mr. Beckman’s English class, to be precise, at Pacific High School, Port Orford, Oregon. My freshman class of 75 kids was the largest in school history, with a graduating class of around 40. The mill closed that year and …
Welcome to the revamped NWBookLovers.org! As you take a look around the new site, you’ll see that it feels more like a traditional blog than the old version and that we’ve got a bunch of new voices—all while hanging on to the best of the old site: the Face Outs, the author interviews and essays, …
There are booksellers who fall into bookselling when their other plans don’t work out or when they happen to see a Help Wanted sign in a store one day—and booksellers who choose it, who know from early on that they want to make a career out of putting books into the hands of other people. …
