by Gabino Iglesias for High Country News Sept. 9, 2020 In a small Montana town, there’s a thing with feathers. Hope? Not so much. Maxim Loskutoff’s debut novel explores the fraught history of the Bitterroot Valley. In the foothills of the Sapphire Mountains in southwestern Montana, elk are bleeding. Some are dead. Others are still …
A reader could confuse these stories for a novel because they revolve around one family. Told in a variety of narrative styles and criss-crossing generations of a (mostly) Japanese family, this book has an architectural quality in which each room is connected to every other room and in which WWII is the central room and …
[Broadway Books‘ July 13, 2020] newsletter links to a list of books by authors who were scheduled to read from their books at Broadway Books in April, May, and June. Some of the books are novels, some are collections of poems, stories or essays; some offer advice, directions, and instructions. The writers of those books …
As I await the publication of my third book of short stories about Maine and northern New England, A Faithful But Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed, I remember applying for a job in my twenties that I suspected (correctly, it turned out) would pay me for taking naps. The position involved running a …
This short story collection does what Yuknavitch does best—asks you to trade your life for a book that is just strange and beautiful enough for you to make the deal. I floated through these stories the same way I’ve floated through her other work, almost unaware of time passing. Her endangered characters make terrible and …
Ted Chiang, the author of Exhalation, a collection of short fiction that won a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and was named a New York Times Best Book of 2019, responded to questions from members of the 2020 PNBA Awards committee. Exhalation is your second heralded collection. What draws you to the short story form? I …
Phinney Books in Seattle has a Resist List of titles. For every title on the list, the store donates 20% of the sales to the American Civil Liberties Union. What to do in the age of Trump? Every week, we’re featuring, here and in our store, a rotating list of a dozen or so books …
Lidia Yuknavitch Reads Her Short Story “Street Walker” Listen to Portland author Lidia Yuknavitch read on this podcast, brought to you by Portland bookstore Powell’s! This story is a preview; the collection, Verge, will be available February 4, 2020. You can preorder now from Powell’s and other independent bookstores. Get crafty, make a card, and …
From lithub.com, by Charles Johnson . . . On November 11, 1991, I had the privilege and pleasure of reading with Marshall at the Poetry Center in NYC. I felt it was an honor because I’d long been an admirer of her novel Brown Girl, Brownstones, published in 1959 when I was 11 years old. …
Not long ago a book sneaked up on me. The paperback of Valerie Trueblood’s Terrarium hit the shelves of Madison Books, which served as a reminder that I’d had the hardcover sitting unread on my nightstand for far too long. I tried one story in the collection, then another, and kept going until the characters began …
