Library Journal has named Seattle-based author Nancy Pearl its Librarian of the Year for her amazing ability to convince “Americans that libraries, books, and reading are critical to our communities.” We couldn’t have said it better. Pearl, who has published multiple titles in her Book Lust series, all from Sasquatch Books in Seattle, was a …
The Seattle Times offered an excerpt Saturday from Book Lust To Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers (Sasquatch, 2010) by Nancy Pearl, who is pretty much a rock star among book nerds. Pearl regaled indie booksellers at a recent event where crimson T-shirts featuring her bespectacled mug over the words ¡Viva El Libro! practically caused …
PWxyz has a nice article today about a book that won’t be available until November, The Lost Art of Reading by David Ulin, published by the Northwest’s own Sasquatch Books. We haven’t seen the book but we sure do like the concept. PWxyz describes it thusly: “Ulin confronts the question of whether and how the …
We update the Bestseller list every Wednesday, based on sales in independent bookstores around the Northwest during the previous week. There are always a few titles on our list that don’t show up in the national lists of bestsellers, which is a reflection of the love of regional authors and books by you, our neighbors …
C-SPAN2’s BookTV interviewed Nancy Pearl at a recent American Library Association conference about her favorite reading for the summer. At the end of the short interview, Nancy mentions that she has another title coming out soon from Sasquatch Books called Book Lust To Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers. This woman reads more …
