In January of 2025, about a month before One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This was set to be published in North America, I received an email from my editor. He said he was worried: we’d gotten no confirmed major media at that point. By this he meant national radio, morning TV, that …
Martyr! took over my brain completely. Kaveh Akbar created a revelatory experience in novel form about the absurdities of living, loving, dying, and discovering one’s identity. Each poetic page was filled with passages I want to keep close. — Torrin, Queen Anne Book Company, Seattle, WA Explore the National Book Awards finalists at Queen Anne …
Like her mother many years before her, Ingrid suffered a serious head injury that left her with a temporary amnesia. The result for both women was to gain powers that had been within their lineage for generations – clairvoyancy, healing and the ability to communicate with spirits. At the center of the story is Ingrid’s …
Portland’s novelist Amanda Coplin, whose debut The Orchardist was also just awarded the Washington State Book Award for fiction, was named one of the National Book Awards authors’ 5 under 35 honorees. Now in its the eighth year, the National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 program honors five fiction writers who are among the best …
Next Wednesday (October 12), for the first time ever, the National Book Award finalists will be announced in the Northwest—live on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s morning radio program, Think Out Loud, and in front of a live audience at the new Literary Arts Center in Portland (Literary Arts is co-sponsor of the event). Past National Book Award winners …
