From Elliott Bay Book Company Instagram this week: We have a major life update for you all: we now have new owners! The transfer will happen over the course of this month and the new owners are very familiar faces, being our general manager [Tracy Taylor] and longtime shoppers and Queer/Bar owners [husband-and-husband team …
From The Seattle Times April 10, 2022 Local author Mary Daheim passed away after a brief illness. Mary was born to Hugh and Monica Richardson in Seattle, WA. She grew up in the Wallingford neighborhood surrounded by relatives in houses within blocks of her own. Mary knew her vocation as a writer very early. She …
From The Seattle Times April 1, 2022 by Sarah Neilson Please see the full article, with six recommendations here. Below, we share Neilson’s recommendation for Bellingham, WA’s own Caitlin Scarano. “The Necessity of Wildfire: Poems” by Caitlin Scarano (Blair, $16.95; out April 5) This second full-length collection from Scarano, who is based in Bellingham, was …
Congratulations to Phinney Books in Seattle, the subject of a recent, wonderful bookstore profile by Paul Constant in The Seattle Times. Paul Constant Special to The Seattle Times January 18, 2022 Neighborhood Reads About eight years ago, Phinney Ridge resident Tom Nissley spent a long winter’s night catching up with two old friends who now …
Congratulations to Michelle Bear, assistant manager and soon-to-be owner of Edmonds Bookshop in Edmonds, WA! Congratulations, too, to Mary Kay Sneeringer and David Brewster, who owned the store for twenty years. The good news broke in the Seattle Times August 18, 2021. As the Edmonds Bookshop team relates in a piece in My Edmonds News, …
The Seattle Times’ Paul Constant wrote a lovely profile of Magnolia’s Bookstore in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood, “one of Seattle’s most isolated neighborhoods.” For the article, Constant interviewed store owner, Georgiana Blomberg. Blomberg purchased the store in 2001 after working there for almost a decade. Constant also visited the store on a busy Farmers Market Saturday …
Prior to last night’s virtual event hosted by Third Place Books (Seattle), Village Books (Bellingham), Browsers Bookshop (Olympia), and Auntie’s Books (Spokane), Rebekah Denn wrote a piece about Spokane author Kate Lebo. Read it to get some new book recommendations and a fresh look at a favorite author. Lebo’s newest work is The Book of …
In her book, Minor Feelings: an Asian American Reckoning, poet, critic and essayist Cathy Park Hong wrote: “For as long as I could remember, I have struggled to prove myself into existence.” For me, this line sets the tone for one of the most thoughtful and important books I’ve read in years. I had to …
By Paul Constant Special to The Seattle Times Neighborhood Reads If you want to learn about a Seattle neighborhood, browse the shelves of its independent bookstores. Local bookstores succeed when they place the interests and aspirations of their neighbors over the fads and excesses of national bestseller lists. And every time we buy books from …
by Paul Constant for The Seattle Times Once upon a time in Kingston, Kitsap County, a little girl fell in love with books. Annie Carl was born with a rare spinal birth defect called a lipomyelomeningocele — a fatty deposit at the base of her spine a little bigger than a pea. It’s a condition …
