Want to read my short autobiographical essays like “No-Pants Griffith,” “Whole Psychopath” and “Limb of Satan”? All true stories!
You’ll need a copy of AND NOW WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A PARTY: LINER NOTES TO A WRITER’S EARLY LIFE
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Live! In person! Saturday Nov 19th 2-4 pm at the Phinney Center. Come meet me and 27 other friendly local authors.
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Here are 4 books to look for: three coming out very soon (next week! next month!) and one that was published late last year just as Covid was surging and election-related horrors were gearing up…
Read moreGood books for hard times: these are the books I turn to when I’m ill or stressed. They are books to get lost in: comfort reads.
Read moreThis month it’s mostly adult fiction with a couple of YA novels, plus two disability-related nonfiction titles. Many of these books are either just-published or scheduled for early next year. For those I recommend that are not yet published I’ve added the month of publication to make it easier for you to preorder.
Read moreCome to Elliott Bay Book Company at 7pm on Monday 5th November. I’ll be talking with Katrina Carrasco about her debut novel, The Best Bad Things.
Read moreFive novels that I enjoyed and are definitely worth your time, plus four more than do exactly what they say on the tin.
Read moreHere are the books I’ve read or abandoned in the last month, what I’m reading now, and what’s on my TBR list.
Read moreI’ll talk on a semi-regular basis about books I’m reading/have read/plan to read. Some will be old friends, some new to me, and some yet published.
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I’m teaming up with Phinney Books in Seattle to bring you signed books for the holidays. Only this year we have SOMETHING SPECIAL to offer: buy a signed, personalised hardcover or paperback of Hild, and get the ENTIRE AUD TRILOGY—also signed and personalised!—for only an additional $10!! (plus shipping).
Read moreToday I’ll be alternately sitting in the sun reading this and working on some Hild research. Also, y’know, indulging in high-stress activities…
Read moreIt started snowing in earnest first thing Tuesday morning: It stopped yesterday, but everything stayed frozen. Today it’s a little warmer, but…
Read moreSnow is coming down. It will come down all day. Tomorrow there will be a lot more. I won’t be able to…
Read moreI’m sure many of you have by now read about the latest foolishness from an f/sf bigot who I won’t bother to…
Read moreThese books arrived this weekend. I’m looking forward to all of them. I love my job! Less fond of crapcam, though. Just…
Read moreWe’ve just spent a few days on Lopez Island, one of the San Juan Islands bang in the middle of the Strait…
Read moreOver at You fight like Anne Rice! Eric Nguyen, talking about booksellers, says: Retailers need to ask: how can they make the…
Read moreYesterday was a day of breakage. We woke up to snow, and a ravaged curly willow. The tree had survived the Great…
Read moreToday will be a slow-moving recovery day. Lots of blinking. Some sitting in the sun. Perhaps reading if I can find something…
Read moreI spent most of yesterday eating. Nectarines, cherries, raspberries, all with lashings of thick thick thick fresh fresh fresh cream. I just…
Read moreA few years ago, a book lover built two email lists, BluePlace and Ammonite, for the purpose of discussing, respectively, crime fiction…
Read moreHere’s a Guardian article, nominally about Waterstone’s, a UK book chain (“When it started, Waterstone’s was a breath of fresh air. But…
Read moreA preparatory sketch for Goscinny and Uderzo’s first book, Asterix the Gaul (1961). Photograph: Les Éditions Albert René / Goscinny-Uderzo The French…
Read morePublishers Weekly really screws up: “Every year, PW selects its top 100 books, and for the first time ever PW has upped…
Read moreI’ve seen a handful of things in the last week that are worth blogging about. But I’m in Hild mode, so instead…
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Nicola Griffith 