It was a Sunday morning in May, and Ben had just left Angela’s dilapidated Seattle apartment building in good spirits. After a year of flirting, yearning and maneuvering (and with the aid of some Jack Daniels added to the espresso they sipped while playing chess at Last Exit on Brooklyn the night before), he’d finally gotten Angela to invite him home.
Could there be a timelier gift to quarantined readers than Jennifer Haupt’s “Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19”? I doubt it. Author/editor Haupt’s new anthology delivers on its title with an outpouring of responses to our shared ordeal by a diverse group of (90!) writers.
Nearly all of the dozens of Carl Hiaasen’s hugely popular satirical novels, young people’s stories, nonfiction books and column collections – mainly about political corruption and environmental despoliation in Florida – have been all too believably, even depressingly, topical.
Author and former ABC News correspondent Heather Cabot will join The Spokesman-Review reporter Kip Hill for a Northwest Passages Book Club virtual event to discuss her book, “The New Chardonnay: The Unlikely Story of How Marijuana Went Mainstream,” on Thursday at 4 p.m.
The Washington Center for the Book has announced its list of finalists for the 2020 Washington State Book Awards. A panel of judges, five for adult titles and three for children’s titles, will decide the winners and report their decisions by Sept. 25.
Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West, authors of "Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World," discussed their book with Shawn Vestal in a Northwest Passages Book Club livestream event Tuesday night.
Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan joined Spokesman-Review editor Rob Curley on Thursday to discuss her new book, “Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy,” during a livestreamed Northwest Passages Book Club forum.
This weekend, bookstores across the country are celebrating “Bookstore Romance Day,” a virtual event celebrating romance fiction. The program will feature a series of panels with several authors, including event ambassador Meg Cabot, author of “The Princess Diaries.”
Author Larry Godwin’s second memoir, “Transcending Depression: A Quest Without a Compass,” is a follow-up to his first, “Surviving Our Parents’ Mistakes.” Although Godwin now lives in Missoula, he has fond memories of visiting family in Spokane over the years.
When local author Leyna Krow began writing “Sinkhole,” her short story submission for the 2016 Lilac City Fairy Tales anthology, she had no idea of the journey the piece would take.
Hank went down to the dock before dawn. Dirty spring snow lingered along the cobble path that led from cabin to lakeshore. The mist hung so thick that he heard the canoe before he saw it, the rhythmic clunk of aluminum on wood.
Five summers ago, at San Diego Comic-Con International, Rep. John Lewis donned the type of clothes and gear he was wearing a half-century earlier when he was beaten trying to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
On the surface, La La seems stable and driven: She’s in veterinary school and engaged to a chiropractor named Clem. No one would guess that her father, Zev, a lifelong thief, began teaching his daughter how to pick locks when she was still in elementary school.
When I look in a mirror, I try to compose my face so that it is at its best, but it’s a face that beyond my bathroom gets supplanted by all the more homely faces I carry out into the world. John Thornberg is a Minnesota poet, but here’s a poem of his that reflects upon all of us everywhere.
Looks like a lot of people want to read about the president’s psychological back story. “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man” by Mary L. Trump has set a first-day sales record for Simon & Schuster, the publisher announced Thursday.
Poetry has always been a part of local writer Jazlyn Jacobs's life. She often draws inspiration from her Jewish heritage and working with children on the autism spectrum as a behavioral technician.
Confession: I read “The Secret History,” by Donna Tartt, and enjoyed it, but it did not change my life. Nor did it make me long for new versions of its plot about a cabal of college students who take part in a crime they spend years hiding.
In Jim Carrey’s new semi-autobiographical novel, “Memoirs and Misinformation,” there are flying saucers and a fire-bombing on Rodeo Drive, apocalyptic fires devouring Malibu and a mega-budget Hungry Hungry Hippos movie written by Kenneth Lonergan.
Every First Friday of the month, some of the city's best writers would congregate at Auntie's Bookstore for 3 Minute Mic. The open mic event allowed established writers and new voices to share their work, three minutes at a time, to the audience.
