Apr 9, 2023
Putin is murdering Ukrainians. Xi is likely perpetrating a
genocide on the Uyghurs. He's also threatening to murder
Taiwanese, and he's crushing democracy in Hong Kong. Trump is
ignoring the rule of law. Florida is censoring books.
Why am I doing what I'm doing? Why have I interviewed more than 600
people about the...
Oct 26, 2020
Powell's Books is a chain of bookstores located in and around Portland, Oregon. It claims to be the largest independent new and used bookstore in the world. Powell's 'City of Books' store is located on the edge of downtown and occupies a full city block. It covers some 68,000 square feet or 1.6 acres of retail floor...
Sep 22, 2020
Lifted from Bill Samuel's website:
Mar 15, 2020
David Emblidge spent his childhood in Buffalo, New York and "on the sunny beaches of Ontario’s Lake Erie." After university he worked at the Associated Press as a reporter covering everything from the "disappearance of rural doctors to hog futures, and one murder."
Before entering the publishing trade as a second...
Feb 4, 2019
Henry Hitchings is an author, reviewer and critic, specializing in narrative non-fiction, with a particular emphasis on language and cultural history. His second book, The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English, won the 2008 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. He is the president of the Johnson Society of Lichfield. As...