Twenty-eight organizations have signed on as the Advisory Board for Seattle City of Literature, which is planning a bid for the city to join the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. The organizations include the Seattle Public Library, Visit Seattle, Elliott Bay Book Company, Humanities Washington, Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum, Third Place Books, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Sasquatch …
On May 2, bookstores around the country celebrated the first Independent Bookstore Day. In Seattle, 17 bookstores banded together for Seattle Bookstore Day— a way to encourage readers to visit 3 or more bookstores with a SEABookstoreDay passport for a chance at prizes. People who visited all 17 stores on Independent Bookstore Day earned the …
Wednesday night a delighted crowd gathered at Book Larder in Seattle to celebrate Renee Erikson and the incredible team behind the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) Book Award-winning cookbook, A Boat, a Whale, & a Walrus. The bookstore’s Culinary Director, Kyle Wisner, served up delicious nibbles from the book including pâté and crostini. Lara Hamilton, …
It didn’t seem like overkill when I dropped twenty pounds of good unsalted butter and ten liters of Moroccan olive oil on Jess Thomson’s porch in April of 2013. She’d need at least that much for recipe testing for A Boat, a Whale and a Walrus. As I drove away, I couldn’t have known that …
Though missing a few obvious mentions of people and places such as Garth Stein, Sasquatch Books and a slew of bookstores (it could be fun to fill up the comments with omissions), this Ploughshares magazine Literary Boroughs series tour of Seattle does make for a good pamphlet tour of the literary city. It covers most of …
There’s a fun post at the blog Tea & Cookies about how a trio of Seattle friends jumped in the car over the weekend after reading about a certain Portland restaurant in the Sasquatch guide West Coast Road Eats: The Best Road Food from San Diego to the Canadian Border. It’s the best kind of summer …
Portland readers (and visitors) should check out the pretty new home for Reading Local: Portland. There you’ll find book reviews, including lots of love for small local press books; book excerpts; news about upcoming literary events in and around Portland and a directory of Portland bookstores. Right now, the content includes an interview with Jon Bell, …
Lynda Hopkins, a Stanford-educated city girl, left the city to start a small farm. And from that experience comes her first book The Wisdom of the Radish, from Sasquatch Books in Seattle. The publisher has a fun promotion to start getting the word out on Ms. Hopkins’ book: send the publisher your mailing address and …
“Lots of people, Sasquatchers, lots of Nancy, lots of wine . . . ” That’s the report we received Tuesday morning following Nancy Pearl’s acceptance of her Lifetime Achievement Award presented at Elliott Bay Book Company on behalf of its indie store fraternity, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, and its 2011 Book Awards. The reporter was Cindy …
Our friends at Sasquatch Books in Seattle are promoting a wonderfully cute new alphabet book called Have You Ever Seen a Smack of Jellyfish with a contest. The challenge is to guess the words that describe a group of these animals: butterflies, owls, rhinoceroses, and zebras. A “smack of jellyfish” is obvious—it’s in the title; …
