Paul Dage’s Trout Kill tells the tale of Eddy Trout, a hard-living Vietnam vet who resides, along with his wife and dying dog, in a Podunk town in the Pacific Northwest. The product of a gruesomely traumatic childhood, Eddy is a jack of all [...]
Recently graduated with a degree in journalism, Meg Reed is unemployed and staying with a friend in Portland, Oregon, when a chance encounter with an editor at a neighborhood coffee shop provides her with a job opportunity. Northwest Extreme is [...]
Jim Lichatowich’s book Salmon, People, and Place takes readers on a search for the core causes of salmon decline in the Pacific Northwest. The author tells the story of salmon from an ecological perspective and goes on to point out the several [...]
Robin Oliviera’s I Always Loved You tells the story of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas, two of the most important painters of the late 19th century. We know that after Degas’ death, Cassatt collected all the letters she had sent him [...]
The Mexican Cuisine You Thought You Knew By Pati Jinich Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30.00, 288 pages In her new cookbook Pati’s Mexican Table, Pati Jinich, host of the PBS series of the same name, has boiled down “the secrets of [...]
