The Gypsy Rose Lee Awards celebrate Seattle theater achievements. David Hogan, who starred as Enzo in the Book-It Repertory Theatre’s adaptation of The Art of Racing in the Rain, won the award for best lead actor. The Art of Racing in the Rain is the New York Times bestselling novel of Garth Stein, one of […]
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The John Burroughs Association has awarded its 2013 John Burroughs Medal award to Dr. Thor Hanson for Feathers. The medal celebrates excellence in natural history writing, and has previously been awarded to Robert Michael Pyle (for Wintergreen), and Barry Lopez.
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The audiobook version of Ivan Doig’s novel The Bartender’s Tale has been nominated for this year’s 2013 Audies. This prize celebrates quality in audiobooks. Ivan Doig, one of the nation’s foremost literary speakers, has also been nominated for a National Book Award for his memoir This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind.
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Author Andrew McCarthy shared some insights about traveling, personal growth, and fear with the Los Angeles Times. The Longest Way Home, Andrew McCarthy’s memoir, explores how he used traveling to spur his own personal growth. Andrew McCarthy also shares his travels as a popular speaker at libraries around the US.
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Sometimes, the most powerful stories speak to experiences so deep and human that they can cross boundaries to appeal to readers from all walks of life. Jennifer Lauck’s memoir, Blackbird, has garnered praise from Oprah and other nationally renowned book critics, and Jennifer herself is a popular speaker and writing teacher throughout the west coast. […]
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Interested in Ivan Doig and his latest novel, The Bartender’s Tale? Read a review of it here. Ivan Doig is one of the West’s foremost writers and speakers. His books include House of Sky and Work Song. The paperback version of The Bartender’s Tale will be released this August.
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As we count down to the National Book Critics Circle Awards, for which Reyna Grande’s The Distance Between Us is a finalist in the autobiography category, here’s a review from the El Paso Times. Calling immigration “The monster who steals parents,” Martha Statz notes that Reyna Grande’s account of her family’s immigration troubles is only […]
Read More »“It has to be the connection that happens with the people,” says author and actor, Andrew McCarthy, explaining what he enjoys most about meeting his readers when he does literary events. “When I’m telling a story and I see the heads begin to nod, that identification is a really satisfying thing. You sit in a room alone for a year, spilling your guts onto the page, then the book goes out into the world. It’s nice to know it’s been received.”
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Many Community Reads Programs select books about characters who live far different lives from most of their readers. National bestseller, Enrique’s Journey, a nonfiction account of a young Honduran boy setting out to find his mother in America, is one such book. Enrique’s Journey has already been selected by 58 universities and scores of high schools as a Freshman/All Campus Reads. It’s been adopted by nine cities as a “One City, One Book” selection. Pulitzer Prize winner, Sonia Nazario, answered a few questions for us about her book and its impact on communities throughout the US.
Read More »For the past few months, one of our favorite titles for Campus/Freshman Reads programs, as well as One City, One Book events, has been Reyna Grande’s, The Distance Between Us. This is Reyna’s third published work, and though she’s a well-known and highly regarded Latina author, her work hasn’t gotten the broader attention we think it deserves. But that’s about to change with the recent announcement of this year’s shortlist for the National National Book Critics Circle Awards, which includes, The Distance Between Us.
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