Archive for the ‘Lidia Yuknavitch’ Category
Award Season!
Congratulations to Lidia Yuknavitch for winning the 2012 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for her gritty memoir The Chronology of Water! Composed of independent bookstores throughout the Pacific Northwest, The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association has recognized great writing in the Northwest since 1965. The award committee considered more than 200 published works before awarding Lidia Yuknavtich ...Read more.
Hawthorne Books Round-up November 2011
With so many titles published over the past ten years sometimes it’s hard to keep track of everything our authors have been up to. Here are a few highlights from the past several weeks. Please let us know anything and everything that we’ve left out!
Our fall title The Luminist, by David Rocklin, is getting fantastic ...Read more.
Wordstock 2011 According to Emily Shannon
One of our fall 2011 Hawthorne interns, Emily Shannon, shares a few thoughts on her weekend at Wordstock…
In my excitement after the superb literary madness that is Wordstock, I hurried home, eager to scribble down all that I had heard, seen, and experienced. I felt motivated and inspired by the readings and conversations. My day ...Read more.
Wordstock 2011
We love Wordstock here at Hawthorne Books. We have all sorts of events slated for this year’s festival and I’ve laid them all out for you here. Every year we have a booth at the Book Fair in the main hall and that’s where you’ll find publisher Rhonda Hughes, senior editor Adam O’Connor Rodriguez and ...Read more.
Hawthorne Books Round-up
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With so many titles published over the past 10 years sometimes it’s hard to keep track of what all of our authors have been up to. Here are a few highlights from the past few months. Please let us know anything and everything that we left out!
Portland Monthly visited Hawthorne Books in the spring for ...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.
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.
