Lists
by Powell's Staff, August 19, 2022 10:39 AM
We love love. No, really: we love it, so we jumped at the chance to feature some of our favorite romance titles to celebrate this year’s Bookstore Romance Day — an event Powell’s is a proud sponsor of this year. Be sure to check out their really great line-up of day-of virtual events.
We pulled together our favorite romance titles where the romantic leads find love in (or near!) the stacks. Grab one (or all) of these and tell your friends not to bother texting — you’re not going to want to be disturbed.
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Powell's Picks Spotlight
by Keith Mosman, August 18, 2022 8:22 AM
This week we’re taking a closer look at Powell’s Pick of the Month Stories from The Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana.
I was a theatre major, and like most theatre majors, I: 1. Insist on spelling “theatre” with an “re” and 2. Don’t actually make theatre any more (and even seeing any plays in performance during the last few years has been a challenge for well-documented, world-historical reasons). Yet still, my training has had lifelong implications, including my general aversion to film...
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Lists
by Kelsey Ford, August 16, 2022 9:15 AM
August is Women in Translation Month, which is our favorite excuse to celebrate some of our favorite women translators. This list of women-written, women-translated titles is by no means exhaustive (there needs to be a Women in Translation Year!), but we can guarantee all these titles are stunners.
Happy reading!
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Lists
by Kelsey Ford, Michelle Carroll, and Sarah Reif, August 10, 2022 8:54 AM
Do we love books? Yes, of course, obviously! We’re obsessed with them. But that doesn’t mean we’re not just as obsessed with so many of the great movies and television shows being released today, especially when they’re adaptations that do right by books we’ve read and loved. We had so much fun pulling together our previous two lists of book-to-screen adaptations we couldn't stop talking about (Part One and Part Two), so we thought: who doesn't love a good trilogy?
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Powell's Picks Spotlight
by Kelsey Ford, August 3, 2022 8:41 AM
This week we’re taking a closer look at Powell’s Pick of the Month The Wild Hunt by Emma Seckel.
Every summer, my extended family and I rent houses in a small town along the Oregon coast. For a week, we take long walks along the beach, spend afternoons cooking elaborate meals, play Fascination in the arcade one town over, and stay up late, talking about nothing and everything over a dwindling bonfire.
It’s great, but it’s also a lot (is a family vacation ever really a vacation?). This year, when I needed a moment of quiet, I took my copy of The Wild Hunt by Emma Seckel out to an Adirondack chair...
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Playlists
by Rodrigo Fresán, August 2, 2022 9:06 AM
All of my books — all three Parts among them — are filled with music. But in The Remembered Part, the songs and melodies go one step beyond and become, more than ever, a decisive factor in the story. Here are some (a very few) of those songs. The rest of the playlist waits for you in the novel.
Tune in...
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Original Essays
by Catherine Burns, Jenifer Hixson, Kate Tellers, Meg Bowles, and Sarah Austin Jenness, July 29, 2022 8:40 AM
At the end of every episode of The Moth Radio Hour, we say, “Moth stories are true as remembered and affirmed by the storytellers.” But memory is imperfect, and sometimes the way we remember events is different from how they actually unfolded. Think of Moth stories — both the ones you’ve already heard, and the ones we hope you tell one day — as an artistic time capsule of one person’s emotional experience of events...
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Powell's Picks Spotlight
by Keith Mosman, July 28, 2022 8:53 AM
This week we’re taking a closer look at Powell’s Pick of the Month Keeping Two by Jordan Crane.
My partner once collapsed in my arms. An ambulance was called and he spent several days in the ICU. Happily, no major medical interventions were required, he recovered quickly, and remains in good health.
But the memory of that instant, and the following days, has haunted me ever since. In part because I have long fought a habit of imagining worst-case scenarios and summoning forth those hypothetical emotional states, and the events of that day spawned dozens of new terrible possibilities to fixate on. Maybe this is an attempt at a sort of emotional inoculation, but if so, it’s one that couldn’t possibly succeed; one of...
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Lists
by Powell's Staff, July 26, 2022 8:06 AM
If you (like me) aren’t a huge fan of the heat, then July is the perfect month to hunker down, turn on the fan for some good, cool air and white noise, and pull out your next great read. Below, we’ve rounded up some of the books in translation released this past month that we’re the most excited about. In this month’s selection, you’ll find a generational story about sisters that spans decades; a "a fiercely anti-sentimental meditation on the unsettling paradoxes of motherhood;" meditations on cigars and cars; a bleak, necropastoral landscape; an “anti-voyeuristic portrait of a people visited by tragedy;” a writing fellowship and a mysterious talk show; stories about coming of age and abuses of power; and a new book from "a kaleidoscopic, open-hearted, shamelessly polymathic storyteller."
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Five Book Friday
by Charlotte S., July 22, 2022 8:53 AM
Sad girls, weird girls, bitchy girls — they make for unreliable narrators while being painfully relatable ones. They articulate those dark, strange, emotions and thoughts that live within you; they know the shame, disgust, rage, hopelessness, sorrow, and fear that perhaps you’ve always known but never realized belonged to anyone but you. Sometimes they embrace those feelings; sometimes they rebel against them; regardless, their actions (and inaction) are often morally ambiguous. The women in these books are polarizing and often scorned for being so unkempt, for being petty, for not caring enough, or for caring too much. Why do these women provoke such strong reactions? How do we as a culture view and treat women that we see as flawed?
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