We understand, it's difficult to pick just one book for your 2008 Puddly Award selection. You're making lists, scanning your shelves, poring back over your GoodReads entries. Give your mind a rest — and maybe a recharge — with our interview with Temple Grandin, plus signed editions of her new book, Animals Makes Us Human. We'd like to inaugurate original essays by Jay Mathews (Work Hard. Be Nice.), Norman Bussel (My Private War), Philipp Blom (The Vertigo Years), and Bernard Cornwell (Agincourt). This time around we have but one, lone INK Q&A, by Hannah Holmes (The Well-Dressed Ape), so please — give it some love! And don't miss guest bloggers Peter Wild (Noise: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth) and John Niven (Kill Your Friends). Now, get out there and show your Puddly!
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Saturday, October 23, 2010
PowellsBooks.news Mar 11 2009
Is it the close proximity of St. Patrick's Day to the spring equinox that has resulted in the Annual Leprechaun Hunt? Hundreds of little Irish critters overtake Portland for a few days each year, bounding around open fields and even dancing little jigs across freeways, warbling their high-pitched renditions of "Danny Boy" all the way. Sometimes you catch one and get their pot of gold, but we've already got our treasure, starting with our interview with Peter Singer (The Life You Can Save) and signed editions by Abraham Verghese (Cutting for Stone) and Keith Donohue (Angels of Destruction). We love Lucky Charms, but we'll trade those fun marshmallow shapes for original essays by Tim Davys (Amberville), Christopher Benfey (A Summer of Hummingbirds), Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (The Face on Your Plate), and Matthue Roth (Candy in Action), plus a Powell's Q&A by Lev Yilmaz (Sunny Side Down), blue clovers, and green diamonds. And we leave you with guest bloggers Zo Heller and Robert Sullivan river-dancing the little green-suited scamps right into our nets...
PowellsBooks.news Jun 4 2009
The unexpectedly warm weather makes us lazy and content — too lazy and content to come up with our own text for this introduction. Therefore, we're letting our beloved readers Mad Lib for us. We have a(n) ?????(adjective)?? ??? interview with China Miville, along with signed first editions of his new novel, The City and the City, and Chuck Palahniuk's Pygmy. Our original essays inspire unique reactions: John Crowley (Four Freedoms) makes us want to ????? (verb)?????; Deanne Stillman (Mustang) reminds us of ?????(adjective)??? ?? ?????(plural noun)??? ?? in the springtime; Tess Callahn (April and Oliver) inspires us to ?????(verb)????? our favorite ?????(noun)????? ; and we ?????(verb)????? for Deyan Sudjic (The Language of Things). Don't forget our ?????(adjective)????? Powell's Q&A with Lisa See (Shanghai Girls), not to mention a bevy of ??? ??(adjective)????? guest bloggers: the contributors to Conjunctions 52 and Portland Noir.
PowellsBooks.news Apr 8 2009
Runny noses... check. Uncontrollable sneezing fits... check. Itchy, watery eyes... check. Hurray, it's spring! And we're inviting you to celebrate with us by frolicking through fields of books. We'll start with interviewee Michael Perry, whose Coop makes a fragrant addition to any seasonal bouquet (signed or otherwise). Next, we'll make daisy chains with original essayists Andrea Wulf (The Brother Gardeners), Joanna Smith Rakoff (A Fortunate Age), Bernd Heinrich (Summer World), Marjorie Kernan (The Ballad of West Tenth Street), and Darren Littlejohn (The 12-Step Buddhist), while tucking Q&A author Arthur Phillips's The Song Is You behind our ears. Then we'll join hands with guest bloggers Michael Muhammad Knight and Rupert Isaacson to get a running start before we all leap onto a soft pile of Spring Fever Sale paperbacks! (BYO hay fever medication.)
Friday, October 22, 2010
PowellsBooks.news Jan 28 2009
We don't want to make our new squirrel mascot, Morrison, green with envy (we like his brown coat), but we've been keeping a keen eye on a certain groundhog in a certain town in Pennsylvania. Between sudden blizzards and bursts of freezing-cold sunshine, this has been a deeply strange winter, and we're sure hoping that little critter doesn't see his shadow on February 2. If we end up with six more weeks of winter, at least we have a new season of Lost to watch on TV — and J. Wood's fantastically insightful blog posts to guide us! Or perhaps we'll savor our signed first editions of Calvin Trillin's Deciding the Next Decider and Walter Mosley's The Right Mistake. If it gets too cold again, we can wrap ourselves in original essays by Lauren Groff (Delicate Edible Birds), Dacher Keltner (Born to Be Good), and Jonathan Barnes (The Domino Men) — after we've read them, of course — and warm our feet over toasty Q&As from Erica Bauermeister (The School of Essential Ingredients) and Neil deGrasse Tyson (The Pluto Files). If things get too dark and gloomy, we have guest bloggers Jonah Lehrer (How We Decide) and Matt Love (Citadel of the Spirit) to light our way. Then again, if we get an early groundhog reprieve, we'll do exactly the same things — only in shorts and T-shirts, sitting out in the sun, with huge smiles on our faces.
PowellsBooks.news Jan 28 2009
We don't want to make our new squirrel mascot, Morrison, green with envy (we like his brown coat), but we've been keeping a keen eye on a certain groundhog in a certain town in Pennsylvania. Between sudden blizzards and bursts of freezing-cold sunshine, this has been a deeply strange winter, and we're sure hoping that little critter doesn't see his shadow on February 2. If we end up with six more weeks of winter, at least we have a new season of Lost to watch on TV — and J. Wood's fantastically insightful blog posts to guide us! Or perhaps we'll savor our signed first editions of Calvin Trillin's Deciding the Next Decider and Walter Mosley's The Right Mistake. If it gets too cold again, we can wrap ourselves in original essays by Lauren Groff (Delicate Edible Birds), Dacher Keltner (Born to Be Good), and Jonathan Barnes (The Domino Men) — after we've read them, of course — and warm our feet over toasty Q&As from Erica Bauermeister (The School of Essential Ingredients) and Neil deGrasse Tyson (The Pluto Files). If things get too dark and gloomy, we have guest bloggers Jonah Lehrer (How We Decide) and Matt Love (Citadel of the Spirit) to light our way. Then again, if we get an early groundhog reprieve, we'll do exactly the same things — only in shorts and T-shirts, sitting out in the sun, with huge smiles on our faces.
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