Archive for the ‘Scott Nadelson’ 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.
Book Clubs & The Luminist
Here at Hawthorne Books, we love our readers and want to provide them with a reading experience that is engaging and interactive. One of the best ways to do this is to reach out to book clubs, which is what we’ve been doing lately.
There are tons of book clubs out there, and if you look ...Read more.
Lit Gifts!
Although we may have been hearing jingly pop renditions of “The Little Drummer Boy” for at least a month already, the final countdown to the holidays is officially here now that we’ve hit December.
So if you’re still struggling to find those unique gifts that don’t involve a dreaded trip to the mall, might we ...Read more.
Aftermath Review
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Real life doesn’t end when the credits roll or the last page turns. There is always the slow, quiet drive home from the movie theater as we try to realign our own expectations with the temporary thrill of a good story. We did not just save the world from aliens or overcome all odds to ...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.
Essay from Scott Nadelson
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Once again the fields we mow
And gather in the aftermath.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sometime during the summer of 2005, while working on a new story, I wrote lines of dialogue that surprised me. “The world died a long time before you were born,” a father tells his daughter and son-in-law, who are shocked and saddened by ...Read more.
Scott Nadelson and Aftermath Book Events
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Scott Nadelson’s short story collection Aftermath is due to spread its wings in just TEN days! Its pub. date is next Thursday, September 1st and with that comes all sorts of great book events throughout the Pacific Northwest. Below is the current lineup. Please be in touch if you’d like to set a reading or ...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.
