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Will Peters

Apr

22

2020

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr

Many Americans choose to believe the myth that the U.S. is a nation-state that is merely defending itself in far-off lands. Immerwahl destroys these illusions in his biting and comprehensive history of America in various stages of Empire. The land grabs and forced removals of the indigenous people “domestically” in the 19th Century expanded to …

Oct

9

2018

Happy 40th Birthday, Annie Bloom’s Books!

Congratulations to Annie Bloom’s Books, Portland, Ore., which will celebrate its 40th anniversary on Sunday, October 28, with an afternoon party. The bookshop will serve cake, sparkling beverages, and coffee; raffle off prizes; and have a weekend sale on select titles. At 2 p.m., a toast will be made to Bobby “Annie” Tichenor, owner and co-founder of …

Sep

20

2018

Fear City

Fear City by Kim Phillips-Fein

This book is a doozy, a colorful history of a specific time and place, which continues to have major implications today. New York in the early 1970s was facing many of the same economic problems as the rest of urban America: simultaneous blows of recession, inflation, and suburban flight sucked revenue out of the city and …

Apr

13

2017

The Circle

The Circle by Dave Eggers

Eggers has created a thoughtful–and at times darkly humorous–idea novel that aspires to challenge the all-encompassing corporate rule of the present day, in the way that Orwell confronted the authoritarian state of the previous century. The Circle is an amalgamation of several recognizable tech/marketing/social media companies, which is led by corporation’s “3 Wise Men,” seemingly …

Mar

2

2017

A Very Expensive Poison

A Very Expensive Poison by Luke Harding

The fall of the Soviet Union left a power vacuum in which organized crime and former KGB agents coalesced in the newly capitalist state. The 2006 London assassination by poison of dissident Alexander Litivinenko served as a lethal threat to Russians who would defy the kleptocratic state and also displayed the willingness of some Western …

Nov

21

2012

Where’d You Go, Bernadette
by Maria Semple

“When Bobby [Tichenor, store owner, Annie Bloom’s Books], Will [Peters, store manager] and I [Mary Fellows] all love a novel, you know something unusual is going on. In this case it’s a funny, edgy, good-hearted send-up of all things Seattle, in particular a badly-located, upper-crust private school. But behind all the cleverness is a really touching, …

Feb

16

2012

2

remarks

Shelving Books? A Few NW Booksellers Weigh In About the Future of Indie Bookselling, an Article by Miranda Roethler

Miranda Roethler reported and wrote a comprehensive, insightful article about ebooks and the future of bookselling for one of her classes at Oregon Episcopal School, where she’s a junior. We’re publishing a condensed version of it here. Roethler is a native Portlander. She says she spends her free time swimming, hanging out with friends, watching old …

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