In her debut novel, Clifford deftly updates The House of Mirth to show that belonging to the social elite is still not for the faint of heart. Evelyn Beegan has grown up on the fringes of high society, but now a new job at an exclusive social networking website may be her ticket to the …
Last week, Brad Craft and Nick DiMartino of University Book Store in Seattle recorded their 46th Breakfast at the Bookstore podcast, marking their one year anniversary of Nick eating maple bars, Brad enjoying more unpredictable treats, and the two sharing delightful book banter to get readers everywhere more excited about books new and old. …
My mother bought this book when I met Nina LaCour, Gayle Forman, and Deb Caletti at a book signing. I was mainly there for Gayle Forman as I had only read her books. When I started this book I was going in blind, not knowing a single thing about it. Caitlin is left alone when …
On May 2, bookstores around the country celebrated the first Independent Bookstore Day. In Seattle, 17 bookstores banded together for Seattle Bookstore Day— a way to encourage readers to visit 3 or more bookstores with a SEABookstoreDay passport for a chance at prizes. People who visited all 17 stores on Independent Bookstore Day earned the …
Ross Coen is a doctoral student in the University of Washington history department and the author of Fu-Go: The Curious History of Japan’s Balloon Bomb Attack on America. Coen answered a few questions about the book for UW Today. UWT: What’s the concept behind this book? RC: When we think about the history of World War …
Communities all over the country are using Where’s Waldo to promote local businesses. Waldo-seekers pick up a passport, then go from shop to shop finding Waldo cut-outs (and a bonus of his dog, Woof in some places!) throughout the month of July. Most venues will hold a big Waldo party at the end of the …
Everybody does it. I look at the books around me every day in the bookstore and I imagine the books I don’t see; the books I’m unlikely to ever see published, or even written. It isn’t a symptom of dissatisfaction with the books there are. Every day I get to work in the bookstore I …
There is doubtless a right way to do this sort of thing. People do it all the time. Professionals, even. No doubt careful planning, experience, good taste, connections, all of that is required to successfully launch a new book. I’m sure that’s right. Good times. On the other hand… When one has produced just a …
On Tuesday, February 25 at 7 pm, University Book Store in Seattle hosts our columnist, their bookseller, everyone’s author and favorite doodler, Brad Craft for an event for his latest book, The Serial Doodler. If you’ve never enjoyed the hilarious cartoons on his internationally notorious website Usedbuyer2.0 then you’re in for a spectacular opportunity. University Book Store’s …
The Holidays can make the strangest of bedfellows, no? And here I don’t mean that awkward combination of cousins in Grandma’s guest room, but rather gifts, givers, and books. One of the deep mysteries of working the retail Season, as it were, has always been the unlikely and unpredictable popularity of this or that title …
