Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• Book Notes: Mix of Johnsons set to appear at Auntie’s

  May 27, 2012 in Features on Page D5 It’s a June of Johnsons at Auntie’s Bookstore. Father and son Larry and Nathan Johnson will sign copies of their book, “Montana Waterfalls: A Guide for Sighters, Hikers and Waterfall …

• Book Notes: Aunties’s offers local flavor with lineup of authors

  May 13, 2012 in Features on Page D6 Coming up at Auntie’s in the coming days: a slew of appearances by notable authors with local ties. Kate McLachlan will read from her paperback “Hearts, Dead and Alive” at …

• Book Notes: For 99 cents, read Walter’s ‘Don’t Eat Cat’

  April 8, 2012 in Features on Page D6 As you may have heard by now, Jess Walter has a new book coming out in June. If you really can’t wait that long, the National Book Award finalist has …

• Book Notes: Get Lit! will tip off with HooPalousa

  March 25, 2012 in Features on Page D6 As we inch closer to the start of Get Lit!, new details emerge. Such as this one: The 14th annual festival will tip off April 9 with a basketball game.

• Actor serves up help for burned ‘Vision’ icons

  January 28, 2012 in City on Page A1 Actor Matthew Modine is in Spokane this weekend, in part to promote fundraisers to restore two iconic Spokane landmarks. He’s helping raise money for Mary Lou’s Milk Bottle and Ferguson’s … 1

• Book Notes: Pendo mightier than Sonnets

  November 20, 2011 in Features on Page D8 We are pleased to announce that the Spokane Dirty Realists (featuring authors Sherman Alexie, Jess Walter and Shann Ray Ferch) soundly defeated the Moscow SuperSonnets, 101-77, at HooPalousa at the …

• Book Notes: Orlean, Whitehead top Get Lit! lineup

  November 13, 2011 in Features on Page D7 Some big literary names have been booked into Eastern Washington University’s Get Lit! Festival, coming April 11-15: • Susan Orlean, author of “The Orchid Thief” and the just-released “Rin Tin …

• Huckleberries: Trio of authors share ink-stained newsroom past

  November 6, 2011 in City, Idaho on Page B2 What do Jess Walter, Richard Miller and Dan Kolbet have in common? Hint: They are ex-Spokesman-Review staffers. And? They’ve all written books. Walter, of course, parlayed his reporting of the … 1

• Book Notes: Black set to star in film version of Walter’s ‘Poets’

  May 22, 2011 in Features on Page D7 Spokane novelist Jess Walter’s latest book, “The Financial Lives of the Poets,” has been picked up as a movie vehicle for Jack Black, retitled “Bailout.” This news came out of …

• Book Notes: Walter, Orozco share stage at Blue Door

  February 6, 2011 in Features on Page D6 Spokane novelist Jess Walter and University of Idaho professor and author Daniel Orozco will give a joint reading Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland …

• Book Notes: Edstrom releases recording how-to

  November 28, 2010 in Features on Page D7 The name Brent Edstrom is familiar from his work with the Brent Edstrom Trio and the Spokane Jazz Orchestra. Now the classical-jazz pianist has a new role: Brent Edstrom, Oxford …

• Book Notes: Nobel Prize winner Llosa has ties to WSU

  October 17, 2010 in Features on Page D9 Peru – hardly Pullman – is the homeland of the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa. But here’s something most people don’t know: He was …

• Spotlight: City’s Arts Awards winners include Walter, Lucas

  October 3, 2010 in Features on Page D6 The winners of the City of Spokane Arts Awards have now been notified – which means we can notify everyone else, in advance of the awards presentation Monday at 6 …

• Book Notes: Chinese massacre in 1887 focus of Nokes’ story

  September 19, 2010 in Features on Page D9 R. Gregory Nokes, a former reporter for the Associated Press and the Oregonian, will tell a fascinating story today at Auntie’s Bookstore. Nokes is the author of “Massacred for Gold: …

• Alexie, Walter team up for Auntie’s appearance

  November 29, 2009 in Features on Page D7 Those who have attended readings by Jess Walter or Sherman Alexie know that both are funny and entertaining speakers – in addition to being world-class novelists. So when two of …

• Women congregate in quest for true-red GOP candidates

  October 25, 2009 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 Republicans should support Republicans at all levels of elected office, including nonpartisan races. That was the message presented at Marge Chadderdon’s home to about 20 Republican Women by their national …

• Author discusses satisfying endings, life in Spokane, what’s next

  September 21, 2009 in City on Page A5 Jess Walter’s new novel, “The Financial Lives of the Poets,” hits bookstores Tuesday and is already getting plenty of excellent critical attention. British novelist Nick Hornby chose it for his …