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Nov

14

2017

Frugalportland.com names “5 Portland Women Writers Well Worth Reading”

by Cila Warncke for frugalportland.com In an era where you can read yourself blind online without spending a penny, buying books is an act of enlightened frugality. Magazines and newspapers get tossed; websites morph. Books stick around. What’s more, books slow us down. There are no hyperlinks or banner ads, nothing to whisk our mind into the …

Feb

18

2015

Cheryl Strayed to Represent Portland at the Oscars Sunday

Talk about local pride, Portland! Not only are the actresses portraying Portland author Cheryl Strayed and her mother (Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern, respectively) nominated for their work in the movie-based-on-the-book, “Wild,” but Strayed is also going with a chic Pacific Northwest look for the red carpet. On her facebook page, Strayed revealed that she …

Jan

7

2013

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Pacific Northwest Book Awards 2015

2013 Pacific Northwest Book Awards Announced

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 …

Nov

14

2012

PNBA’s 2013 Shortlist Announced

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 …

Jun

4

2012

Oprah Goes Wild for Strayed

We learned this morning from Shelf Awareness that Cheryl Strayed’s Wild has been chosen as the first selection for Oprah Winfrey’s new Book Club 2.0. And don’t forget, you can get signed copies of Wild from Broadway Books in Portland!

Apr

18

2012

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On Mothers, Mentors and Housesitting for Cheryl Strayed by Chloe Caldwell

I’ve been asked a handful of times in the last couple of weeks: “How do you know Cheryl Strayed?” Here’s the short version, spoken by Cheryl: “In some interesting way it was your mother who brought us together, through my mother. They were the original contact. I wrote in The Sun about how much I …

Mar

15

2012

Wild

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

“I fell hard in love with Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, which describes her solitary hike of the Pacific Crest trail when she was 26. What a BRAVE book! I was drawn to it on several levels: first, my own memories of monumentally Stupid Things I Had Done in my 20′s—things that I was lucky to have survived. …

Mar

14

2012

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Digging Into What’s True:
An Interview with Cheryl Strayed

Trying to introduce Cheryl Strayed reminds us of what she wrote in her Pushcart Prize-winning essay Munro Country, about meeting Alice Munro for the first time and fumbling over what to say to the fiction icon who she’s long admired. She finally concludes there’s “both too much and nothing to say.” You really have to read …

Feb

15

2012

Sugar Free!

Hey, all you Dear Sugar fans and all you fans of Portland author Cheryl Strayed! We’re happy to report that they’re one in the same. Strayed came out as The Rumpus’s beloved advice columnist Sugar yesterday at a party in San Francisco—just a month before the publication of her memoir Wild (check out Strayed’s video …

Nov

10

2011

What the Book Broads Do, a Conversation with the Women of Broadway Books, by Kristin Thiel

Broadway Books is a timeless Portland gem. It's revered by longtime customers, new customers and fellow booksellers alike for staying vibrant and relevant during a tumultuous time in the book industry. The Book Broads, as the co-owners call themselves on Twitter, are making moves that incorporate the wisdom of  their bookselling experience with new technologies …

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