This April, author and biologist Thor Hanson became the first Northwest author to win the John Burroughs medal for excellence in nature writing.
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Bee Ridgway’s ‘The River of No Return’ Deals With Inequality
Monroe Community Anticipates Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni with ‘One Amazing Thing’
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Reyna Grande and ‘The Distance Between Us’ at Modern Latina
Modern Latina interviewed Reyna Grande about her memoir The Distance Between Us. Reyna Grande is a popular speaker at schools and libraries, and her memoir was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle award. In her writing, Reyna Grande gives voice to the struggles and sorrows that arise from parents immigrating from Mexico to give […]
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Welcome to Warren St. John, author of ‘Outcasts United’
Journalist Warren St. John made a name for himself in sports journalism, first as a reporter for the New York Times, the New York Observer, Slate, and more, and more recently as an author. His books include the national bestseller Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer (named one of the best books of 2004 by Sports Illustrated […]
Welcome to Ted Kerasote and “Merle’s Door”
Traveler, explorer, photographer, and writer Ted Kerasote has crisscrossed the globe from Asia to Scandinavia, the North Hemisphere to the South, and from the Alps’ peaks to African savannahs. His books, essays, and photographs often deal with the complex relationships and interdependence of animals, people, and the natural environment, and have appeared in Audubon, National […]
Garth Stein, ‘The Art of Racing in the Rain,’ and Long Beach Reads One Book
Catch an interview between Garth Stein, author of the NYT bestselling novel The Art of Racing in the Rain, and Rich Archbold. The two will share the stage tonight for the finale of this year’s Long Beach Reads One Book.
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Hastings Reads welcomes Garth Stein and “The Art of Racing in the Rain”
This March, Garth Stein visited Hastings, Minnesota for this year’s Hastings Read, where his New York Times bestselling novel The Art of Racing in the Rain (and YA edition Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog) was the subject of this year’s community reading project. After meeting with almost six hundred students and […]
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Welcome to Bee Ridgway, author of “The River of No Return”
Welcome to Bee Ridgway, author of the new novel The River of No Return! A Massachusetts native and a professor of American literature at Bryn Mawr College, she holds a doctoral degree in English literature from Cornell. In between, she has worked at Elle Magazine, chased down true love, and researched in the UK. The […]
