From The Stranger, May 1, 2020 by by Christopher Frizzelle Indie bookstores in Seattle like Elliott Bay Book Company, University Book Store, Third Place Books, Queen Anne Book Company, and others have sold books through their websites for years. But these stores are so deeply embedded into the character of their neighborhoods, and so deeply associated with in-store events and in-person relationships …
University Book Store‘s branch in the Husky Union Building at the center of the school’s Seattle campus has many things going for it, but “the reason this store is great is because of one guy: Nick DiMartino,” the Stranger reported. “I am doing everything I can to keep literature alive on campus,” DiMartino said. “That’s …
Ann Pancake Writes about: How particles of identity shift in response to particles in the environment. Has published: A brilliant novel and two books of stories, including wrenching depictions of mountaintop removal and hydrofracking. Thinks art: “Transforms the hurt into something beautiful.” Congratulations to Seattle author Ann Pancake on her nomination for a 2015 Genius …
Got a disturbing email the other day, so much so that I sat down and wrote a response that ran several thousand words. A series of responses, actually, all fits and starts of alternating analysis, complaint, explanation, and suggestion that refused to be driven toward a conclusion. I threw all of it away when I …
“If you haven’t read D’Ambrosio before this is a good place to start. These essays, many of which appeared in the Stranger, are intense. His writing is immediate; full of a love of language, probing and wide-ranging. He writes of suicide; the puzzling aspects of experience; family and its fragility. D’Ambrosio is a rare talent …
“A poet, a novelist and a festival; it sounds like the set up for a joke,” said Christopher Frizzelle, editor of Seattle’s alternative weekly, the Stranger. What the poet, Maged Zaher; the novelist, Neal Stephenson and the festival, APRIL (Authors, Publishers, and Readers of Independent Literature) have in common and what brought each on stage …
Apparently, independent bookstores are receiving phone calls from Amazon. Sorry for being so mean? Nope, more of a just thought I’d ask. Shelf Awareness wove together threads from Seattle’s The Stranger, L.A.’s Skylight Books and our friends Roger and Nancy Page at Island Books for this entertaining ditty on the, um, prospects of indies carrying Kindles.
We’re hearing about great results from Unbridled Books‘ three-day offer last week of 25 eBooks for 25 cents each at IndieCommerce stores selling Google eBooks (i.e. You were out of luck if you bought a Kindle). For bookstores, it was a way to raise awareness about their eBook programs, which was part of Unbridled’s plan …
