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We Love Indie Bookstores
It seems like every week there is a new gloom and doom report on books. No one is reading them…the printed book is going the way of the dinosaurs…indie bookstores and small publishing houses are being cornered and eaten alive by large corporations. Roar! Obviously, we like to stay abreast of all publishing and ...Read more.
What We’re Reading: Part Four
Yet another installment of the What We’re Reading series (here’s what we were reading in the winter) with some nice summer reads. Please chime in if you’ve read any of these books and also let us know what pages you’ve been turning lately…
Rhonda:
The Sisters Brothers, Patrick DeWitte
Balthus: A Biography, Nicholas Fox Weber
The New Yorker
2012 ...Read more.
The Luminist Excerpt
For our last post we gave you an excerpt from Scott Nadelson’s fall 2011 collection Aftermath so this week we’re giving you an excerpt from our other much anticipated fall title, The Luminist, by David Rocklin due out October 1, 2011. You can pre-order both now were fine books are sold. Without further ado…
The Canals ...Read more.
Aftermath Excerpt
We know that some of you are chomping at the bit to get Scott Nadelson’s new collection of short stories — Aftermath — due out on September 1st, 2011. We’re pretty excited too so we’re giving you just a taste to whet your appetite. Without further ado here is the story Oslo from Nadelson’s forthcoming ...Read more.
10 Years Equals $10 Books
A lot of you received our summer newsletter last week. (If you didn’t and want to receive future newsletters sign up here.) Those of you who got the newsletter already know about this great promotion that we’re doing in celebration of Hawthorne Books’ tenth anniversary — all books are just $10 until August 1st.
We’ve ...Read more.
Portland Literary Internships
We get a lot of requests from local folks hoping to do an internship at Hawthorne Books — unfortunately way more than we can accommodate. Every spring, fall and winter (and sometimes summer) we have two, 10-week, unpaid interns and they help us out immensely. Lately we’ve been getting double and sometimes triple the amount ...Read more.
More Review Buzz for The Chronology of Water
Mid-April I posted a slew of reviews (that has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?) for Lidia Yuknavitch’s hot-off-the-presses The Chronology of Water. It was impressive then with the likes of Bookslut, HTMLgiant, Bookslut, Shelf Awareness, The Oregonian, PNBA Northwest Book Lovers, Pank Magazine, Eugene Magazine, Portland Mercury, Brain Candy Reviews all loving the ...Read more.
Review Copies and Literary Awards
Every spring Hawthorne Books decides whether to have a summer internship or not. Summer is the slowest month in the world of publishing and so we often scale back to just HB staff. We’re doing that this summer (we always have our fall, winter and spring internships) so the last couple weeks of our spring ...Read more.
Upcoming Events for Lidia Yuknavitch and The Chronology of Water
Thursday, 05 May 2011 :: 7.00 pm
Elliott Bay Book Company | 1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122. T: (206) 624-6600 :: Lidia Yuknavitch reads from The Chronology of Water.
Monday, 09 May 2011 :: 7.00 pm
The Rumpus :: Lidia Yuknavitch and Cheryl Strayed to read from their work for The Rumpus Monthly Reading Series.
Thursday, 02 June ...Read more.
Review Buzz for The Chronology of Water
The last few weeks have been fantastic here at Hawthorne Books. Our spring title The Chronology of Water launched on April 1st and it’s been getting loads of great press!
Here’s what some of the reviewers are saying:
Debra Gwartney, The Oregonian, April 2011:
“I’m also convinced that this bold and highly unconventional book — hot, gritty, unrelenting ...Read more.
