“Jonathan’s earlier book, West of Here, was a favorite all across the NW. This latest work of his is quite different both in context as well as writing style, but equally engaging and thoroughly satisfying. While the characters are certainly intriguing, particularly Trev, a teenage boy with muscular dystrophy, it is the plotline I found …
This week we honored Jonathan Evison with a PNBA Award for his novel The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving. (It’s PNBA Award #2 for Evison, who won last year for West of Here.) Today, he kicks off six weeks of essays by our 2013 winners with a well-argued case for real books. Let’s disambiguate right off …
The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, the indie bookstore booster behind this blog, announced the winners of their annual book awards today. Congratulations are in order for Sherman Alexie (Seattle, WA) for Blasphemy; Jonathan Evison (Bainbridge Island, WA) for The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving; Eowyn Ivey (Palmer, AK) for The Snow Child; Lucia Perillo (Olympia, WA) for …
The Awards Committee for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association has announced its shortlist for the best books of 2012 by Northwest authors. These 12 books and their authors are the nominees. The PNBA Awards Committee is made up of nine volunteer booksellers from throughout our region. This year they considered more than 200 titles published in …
As he told it, at 3 a.m., just five hours before he was to speak in front of a breakfast throng of nearly 200 indie booksellers, Jonathan Evison hailed a cab from the hotel and headed to Kinkos. He had made the decision that he didn’t want to cry. Evison needed help to tell his …
Jonathan Evison has become a bit of a darling in the book world, and it’s no wonder why. Indie booksellers love him because he’s an advocate for indie bookstores. His publisher, Algonquin Books, loves him because he’s charismatic and willing to get out there among booksellers and readers. And readers love him because, well, …
Fern Ridge Public Library Director Colin Rea sent us this shot showing off the “sweet shirt” he won in our recent Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving giveaway, and the book’s publisher, Algonquin Books, had a little something to show off this morning, too. Two new Jonathan Evison sites have gone live just two weeks prior to …
One of the premier giveaways at this year’s Book Expo America was the limited edition T-shirt for Jonathan Evison’s forthcoming novel, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving. By some stroke of luck a small pile made it back to the Algonquin Books’ offices, where they were squirreled away in a closet, much to the delight of …
