Something for Nothing by David Anthony
“Martin Anderson is a 44-year-old adolescent. He’s married to a good woman, has two appealing kids, owns a business that buys and sells used private airplanes and he’s a really nice guy. But he has...
View ArticleVillage Books' Lindsey McGuirk Recommends . . .
Village Books staffer (and occasional NWBL contributor) Lindsey McGuirk was interviewed recently by fellow Village staffer Rachel Hanley for the store’s newsletter, and she got McGuirk to recommend a...
View ArticleSaluting A Veteran Bookseller
“There is no doubt that Mary Gleysteen is the best bookseller ever to walk the boards of our store, and we will miss her terribly. She retires from bookselling at the end of this month.” That’s just a...
View ArticleWhy We Endure by 2012 PNBA Award Winner Jonathan Evison
Over a twenty year period spanning my 20s and 30s, during which I cobbled together a living variously hacking up roadkill, slinging spaghetti, checking water meters, tending bar, washing dishes,...
View ArticleEvison Receives, and So Does One Lucky NWBL Reader
On Jan 31 Jonathan Evison had a dual celebration at his hometown bookstore, Eagle Harbor Book Company on Bainbridge Island, Washington, for the paperback release of his bestselling novel West of Here...
View ArticleGive Me Back My Hat!
Algonquin Books Marketing Director Craig Popelars claims he got the subscription for his daughter for Christmas. Whatever you want to believe, this MAD magazine photo he sent is pretty good....
View ArticleThe Fundamentals of a Free Shirt
One of the premier giveaways at this year’s Book Expo America was the limited edition T-shirt for Jonathan Evison’s forthcoming novel, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving. By some stroke of luck a...
View ArticleWarming Up the Van: Evison’s Latest About to Launch
Fern Ridge Public Library Director Colin Rea sent us this shot showing off the “sweet shirt” he won in our recent Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving giveaway, and the book’s publisher, Algonquin Books,...
View ArticleTruth is Stronger Than Fiction
As he told it, at 3 a.m., just five hours before he was to speak in front of a breakfast throng of nearly 200 indie booksellers, Jonathan Evison hailed a cab from the hotel and headed to Kinkos. He had...
View ArticleThe Argument for Books— ‘Heavy, Smelly, Cumbersome, Perfect Bound Books’
This week we honored Jonathan Evison with a PNBA Award for his novel The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving. (It’s PNBA Award #2 for Evison, who won last year for West of Here.) Today, he kicks off six...
View ArticleThe Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison
“Jonathan’s earlier book, West of Here, was a favorite all across the NW. This latest work of his is quite different both in context as well as writing style, but equally engaging and thoroughly...
View ArticleThe Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin Tour and GIVEAWAY!
“This novel has humor, romance, a touch of suspense, but most of all love—love of books and bookish people and, really, all of humanity in its imperfect glory.” —Eowyn Ivey, author of the Pacific...
View ArticleJonathan Evison & Kurtis Lowe’s Whirlwind Bookstore Tour
To ring in the holidays and celebrate This is Your Life, Harriet Chance! being selected for Pacific Northwest Book Award shortlist, author Jonathan Evison and his regional Algonquin sales rep, Kurtis...
View ArticleGive Me Back My Hat!
Algonquin Books Marketing Director Craig Popelars claims he got the subscription for his daughter for Christmas. Whatever you want to believe, this MAD magazine photo he sent is pretty good....
View ArticleThe Fundamentals of a Free Shirt
One of the premier giveaways at this year’s Book Expo America was the limited edition T-shirt for Jonathan Evison’s forthcoming novel, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving. By some stroke of luck a...
View ArticleWarming Up the Van: Evison’s Latest About to Launch
Fern Ridge Public Library Director Colin Rea sent us this shot showing off the “sweet shirt” he won in our recent Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving giveaway, and the book’s publisher, Algonquin Books,...
View ArticleTruth is Stronger Than Fiction
As he told it, at 3 a.m., just five hours before he was to speak in front of a breakfast throng of nearly 200 indie booksellers, Jonathan Evison hailed a cab from the hotel and headed to Kinkos. He had...
View ArticleThe Argument for Books— ‘Heavy, Smelly, Cumbersome, Perfect Bound Books’
This week we honored Jonathan Evison with a PNBA Award for his novel The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving. (It’s PNBA Award #2 for Evison, who won last year for West of Here.) Today, he kicks off six...
View ArticleThe Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison
“Jonathan’s earlier book, West of Here, was a favorite all across the NW. This latest work of his is quite different both in context as well as writing style, but equally engaging and thoroughly...
View ArticleThe Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin Tour and GIVEAWAY!
“This novel has humor, romance, a touch of suspense, but most of all love—love of books and bookish people and, really, all of humanity in its imperfect glory.” —Eowyn Ivey, author of the Pacific...
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