by Cila Warncke for frugalportland.com In an era where you can read yourself blind online without spending a penny, buying books is an act of enlightened frugality. Magazines and newspapers get tossed; websites morph. Books stick around. What’s more, books slow us down. There are no hyperlinks or banner ads, nothing to whisk our mind into the …
From Broadway Books’ store newsletter: Fall has truly arrived, and it is as lovely as ever. We traveled to Tacoma last weekend to attend the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association meeting, and along the way we marveled at the changing colors of the leaves– so gorgeous! The highlight of this meeting each year is meeting so …
“When someone writes about grief they also write about courage, since they survived to tell the story. The beauty and emotional integrity of Holding Silvan strikes me to the core. This book is brilliant.” —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water. Buy Holding Silvan: A Brief Life from Lidia Yuknavitch’s favorite hometown indie, Portland’s Broadway …
I arrived ten minutes late to the Occupy Broadway Books: Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups event. Even though I knew the deal, I was still surprised—and impressed—to see about 100 adults of all ages dressed in pajamas, some holding stuffed animals and blankies as they sat cross-legged on the floor in front of the register waiting …
Earlier this week the winners of the 2012 Oregon Book Awards were announced at Portland’s Gerding Theater at the annual ceremony hosted by award sponsor Literary Arts. This year’s special presenter was Pulitzer prize and National Book Award winner Timothy Egan. Three of this year’s winners were prominently featured on NW Book Lovers in the past …
(Editor’s note: We first published this interview with Lidia Yuknavitch last March. We’re republishing it to celebrate her 2012 PNBA Award, which she’ll accept Tuesday, March 6 at 7 pm at Broadway Books in Portland.) If you love memoir or poetry or Ken Kesey or have ever spent time on the planet Sorrow, you’ll want …
Nice to hear Portland indie publisher Hawthorne Books recognized in a recent NPR story about memoir—twice. In one of those segments where an author selects three books to recommend, memoirist Marion Winik (The Glen Rock Book of the Dead) chose ‘rebel memoirs,’ including The Chronology of Water by Portland’s Lidia Yuknavitch (a recent PNBA Award winner!) and …
It is not a metaphor to live books. I know it’s true. I once heard it articulated perfectly by Haruki Murakami: “The question is not ‘will one form overtake another?’ Forms are always overtaking one another. And yet we still have television, film, books. The better question is, and the question that must be asked …
Our Day 15 author bookends her list in the smart, poetic, alluring way of her memoir, The Chronology of Water. The Chronology is on the shortlist for a Pacific Northwest Book Award from the indie booksellers of this region; a good number of other year-end lists and non-lists; and was recommended by authors on Day 7 and Day 12 …
“Genuine and generous, this memoir risks much and succeeds powerfully. A striking story is being told here, but the way it's told is even more striking. The book becomes experiential, fostering an intimacy generic zithromax between the writer and reader. You will be moved.”—PNBA Awards Committee. The Chronology of Water is on the shortlist for the …
