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Keith Mosman: Powell's Picks Spotlight: Kathryn Schulz's 'Lost and Found' (0 comment)

New Yorker staff writer Kathyrn Schulz may not be a household name, but most readers in the Pacific Northwest know her work quite well. In 2016, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her New Yorker article “The Really Big One,” about the danger our region faces from a massive earthquake...

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Antoine Wilson: Powell's Q&A: Antoine Wilson, author of 'Mouth to Mouth' (0 comment)

They live, they write, they love; we read. Powell’s pays homage to the time-honored tradition of authors marrying their own with our list of today’s top literary power couples:

Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt • Charles Bock and Leslie Jamison • Julie Buntin and Gabe Habash • Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman • Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida • Álvaro Enrigue and Valeria Luiselli • Michael Faudet and Lang Leav • Heidi Julavits and Ben Marcus • Nick Laird and Zadie Smith • Tahereh Mafi and Ransom Riggs • Claire Messud and James Wood • Brenda Shaughnessy and Craig Morgan Teicher