Powell's Picks Spotlight
by Kelsey Ford, March 30, 2023 9:16 AM
This week, we’re taking a closer look at Powell’s Pick of the Month, White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link.
I vividly remember the night I was first introduced to Kelly Link’s work. I was 18 — young and dumb and wildly shy, living across the country from where I grew up. In Link’s new book, there’s a line that goes “Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin.” That’s how I was then: basically exactly like a werewolf...
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Lists
by Powell's Staff, March 29, 2023 9:06 AM
Spring may bring spring showers, but it also brings new spring books! We're happy to present to you our favorite new works in translation published this past month. On this list, you’ll find a tidy piece of perfection from an Argentinean master of the short novel; chronicle of wartime Kyiv from 2022, written by a Ukrainian writer and photographer; a supposed-prequel from...
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Lists
by Powell's Staff, March 27, 2023 10:08 AM
Although spring may be teasing us with its sunshine more than following through with any promises (we saw that weird snow flurry the other day, spring), there’s always one constant we can rely on: the months of April through June have some killer new book releases. These upcoming books are filled with aliens and haunted houses, fandoms and found families, pseudo-biographies and epic fantasies — and Powell’s booksellers can’t stop talking about how excited they are...
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Playlists
by Jinwoo Chong, March 24, 2023 9:44 AM
I had my first inklings of the novel that eventually became Flux about a year after I was laid off from my first job after college, the result of a corporate takeover of my company that eliminated my entire department. While a tough hurdle to overcome at twenty-one years old, I learned a lot about self-sufficiency, and, once I was ready, decided this episode of my life would make....
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Author Bookshelf
by Esther Yi, March 22, 2023 9:05 AM
I’m haunted by a handful of writers all long dead. They set the standard; naturally I fail. Anything I read of theirs promptly enters my bloodstream, whereupon mysterious internal fomentation proceeds. Y/N is simply the latest extrusion, a concerted one, of that fomentation. In other words, nothing in particular inspired my novel, because everything important has...
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Lists
by Kelsey Ford, March 20, 2023 8:40 AM
Sure, women’s rights have come a long way over the last century, but for every step forward, it feels like we take a few back, and when that feeling is so consistent, so insidious? Man, it makes me want to support women’s wrongs.
On this list, you’ll find books about women’s rights — Gloria Steinem, Barbara Ehrenreich, Mary Beard, all writing about the historical challenges women have faced and the hard work it’s taken to push forward, toward equality and justice. These books are equal parts informative and infuriating, and pair perfectly with the books on this list about women’s wrongs...
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Five Book Friday
by Rin S., March 17, 2023 9:02 AM
One of my favorite parts of working at a bookstore is connecting customers to books they may not find otherwise. Autism and neurodiverse research and literature has come a long way in recent years, and I'm so happy to be able to make these connections. These 5 picks are some of my favorites to recommend due to the intersections they represent and familiarity they can provide...
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Lists
by Powell's Staff, March 14, 2023 9:14 AM
The cookbook section has to be one of the best sections in any bookstore: full-to-brimming with the promise of delicious meals, exciting new recipes to add to the forever rotation, and tips to make even the most daunting dish more doable. To whet your appetite, some of the booksellers at Powell’s on Hawthorne put some of their favorite cookbooks to the test. They made pies and dough, cupcakes and miso cod, cake and soup. Check out their creations, and their recommendations, below...
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Five Book Friday
by Ally G., March 10, 2023 9:48 AM
Calling all education enthusiasts, sapiophiles, and inquiring minds! Before you are a succinct selection of some of the sweetest fruits on the tree of knowledge. (PSA: there will be no Beowulf, state capitals, or theorems included on this list; if you are thirsting for that information, these books will not quench you)...
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Powell's Picks Spotlight
by Keith Mosman, March 8, 2023 9:19 AM
This week we’re taking a closer look at Powell’s Pick of the Month Saving Time by Jenny Odell.
In her new book, Saving Time, Jenny Odell questions the origins and consequences of nearly every aspect of our various timekeeping systems and the ways we use them to dehumanize ourselves and each other.
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