University Book Store‘s branch in the Husky Union Building at the center of the school’s Seattle campus has many things going for it, but “the reason this store is great is because of one guy: Nick DiMartino,” the Stranger reported. “I am doing everything I can to keep literature alive on campus,” DiMartino said. “That’s …
Laurie Frankel writes novels, reads novels, teaches other people to write novels, and raises a small person who reads and would like someday to write novels in Seattle, Wash. In Frankel’s latest novel, This Is How It Always Is (Flatiron Books), the youngest of five boys decides he wants to be a girl, and his …
René Kirkpatrick got her bookselling start at the University of Oregon Bookstore in 1978. At first she worked part-time while getting her degree in elementary education, and then she went full-time, becoming the children’s book buyer in 1985. In 1992, she and her husband moved to Seattle, where she worked with Chauni Haslet as manager and …
In The Hidden Life of Trees: What they Feel, How they Communicate (Greystone Books), Peter Wohlleben illuminates how trees form underground networks that allow them to grow together and nurture each other. As a forest ranger who has immersed himself in scientific literature, Wohlleben argues that people need to take on a role of stewardship …
Queen Anne Book Company, Wednesday, August 31, 7:00 Sabaa Tahir, bestselling author of An Ember in the Ashes and A Torch Against the Night, in conversation with Shelf Awareness‘s Genevieve Iverson. Queen Anne Book Company hosts this event off-site at All Saints Church three blocks east of the store to accommodate the anticipated large crowds. Sabaa …
Great news! Wide World Books & Maps Reaches Fundraising Goals — from Shelf Awareness, April 25, 2016 Congratulations to Wide World Books & Maps, Seattle, Wash.: the store’s GoFundMe campaign has met its $30,000 fundraising goal. “This means we’ll be staying open and will be restocking the store with the latest travel books, maps, and gear …
Originally published in Shelf Awareness Pro, March 29, 2016 Sherman Alexie is a poet, short story writer, novelist, filmmaker, performer, and winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. A Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Indian, Alexie grew up in Wellpinit, Wash., on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now lives …
“I think that the independent bookstore experience offers something that Amazon can’t possibly replicate. I really do.” — Jenn Risko, co-founder and publisher of Shelf Awareness We agree. Read more from Jenn Risko’s interview with GeekWire’s Todd Bishop.
Whether The Story of Hong Gildong is the oldest extant Korean prose fiction or the second oldest, whether it was written by poet and statesman Heo Gyun (1569-1618) about a real bandit or whether it’s popular fiction by an anonymous commoner in the second half of the 19th century matters greatly to some. Not so …
reprinted from Shelf Awareness Pro, February 25, 2016 Seattle City of Literature has appointed Stesha Brandon as its interim executive director. Her role will be to strengthen the organization, lead the upcoming bid to join the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, and initiate a comprehensive search for a permanent executive director. Seattle has been invited to …
