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 […]
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 […]
This February, Garth Stein made a second visit to the Stafford Creek Corrections Center. The book club read and discussed Garth’s New York Times bestselling novel, The Art of Racing in the Rain.
Andrew McCarthy returned to his roots this March by visiting Metuchen, near his childhood home of Westfield. The travel writer and actor is known both for his memoir The Longest Way Home: One Man’s Quest for the Courage to Settle Down and such movies as Pretty in Pink. Find out more here. At the Metuchen […]
Some essays are too good to let slide into the past. For your reading pleasure, check out David Treuer’s essay on “Going Native.” Here, he looks at how and why some writers create fake identities as Native Americans. David Treuer’s books include the nonfiction Rez Life, as well as novels The Hiawatha, The Translation of […]
Long Beach Reads One Book is preparing for this year’s visit with Garth Stein, author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Art of Racing in the Rain. In the run-up to this year’s marquee author visit, the mayor announced The Art of Racing in the Rain with canine commentator Daisy. Catch it here. […]
Welcome to Hillary Jordan, author of the exciting new novel When She Woke! After fifteen years as an advertising copywriter, Hillary Jordan turned to writing fiction. Her debut novel, Mudbound, won the 2006 Bellwether Prize for an unpublished debut novel dealing with social justice issues, a 2009 Alex Award, the 2008 NAIBA Fiction Book of […]
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 […]
Congratulations to Janice Hughes, who manages the East Coast region for Books in Common! This past week, she won not one but two awards at the 9th Annual Info Security’s Global Excellence Awards. Janice took home both Gold and Bronze in the White Paper category. At Books In Common we strive for excellence in serving […]
