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Our latest Indiespensable author is here signing books!

Read an interview with Anthony Marra about the book that made several Powell’s staffers cry (no small feat) on our blog: http://powells.us/11xvdcH

“Pixie is a model who enjoys expertly chosen literature in her spare time. She prefers to read it upside down.”

Growing up in an Italian-American family in Danvers, Massachusetts, Domenica Ruta had a life filled with violence and poverty but also imagination and love. Ruta’s mother, Kathi, who “believed it was more important to be an interesting person than it was to be a good one,” cycled between welfare and great wealth, helped get her daughter into a prestigious boarding school, and gave her Oxycontin. In gorgeous, inventive prose, Ruta chronicles her coming of age, relationships, and struggles to define herself outside of her family. Darkly funny and painfully honest, With or Without You is an essential, necessary work.

We whole-heartedly agree with Amy Bloom’s assessment: “In the world of memoir, Mary Karr’s and Geoffrey Wolff’s exceptional books burn and brighten, like actual stars among strings of tinsel. With or Without You is like that. I will read whatever Domenica Ruta writes.”

We’re pleased to announce Powell’s Indiespensable #38: http://powells.us/YFj2Lz

Rexie approves of her owner’s subscription to Indiespensable.

Thanks for chatting with us, it was a ton of fun!

If you’re in the area, be sure to stop by our Beaverton store tonight, Jan. 8, at 7 pm. Lisa O’Donnell will be reading from and signing copies of The Death of Bees.

Today is the day! Join us for our live chat on Twitter with The Death of Bees author Lisa O’Donnell.

(Plus, she’s signing books at our Cedar Hills Crossing store tonight at 7 pm.)

We’re getting excited for tomorrow’s Twitter live chat with Indiespensable 37 author Lisa O’Donnell!

Get ready by reading our interview with her on the Powell’s blog: http://powells.us/VOHlmi

Or, listen to Linda Wertheimer interview her on NPR: http://powells.us/UCppQQ

We’re happy to announce Indiespensable Vol. 37!

Blackly comic and gorgeously written, Lisa O’Donnell’s The Death of Bees is a beautiful and arresting novel.

Plus, we’ll be hosting a live chat on Twitter with Lisa. Join us January 8th at 1 pm (PST) and tweet your questions about writing her first novel, Scotland, and more @Powells using the hashtag #indiechat.

We’re so excited to announce Indiespensable #36: an exclusive hardcover edition of J. Robert Lennon’s Familiar.

“J. Robert Lennon’s Familiar is so breakneck and harrowing, so grab-you-by-the-lapels astonishing, that you may not notice until nearly the end how many questions about your own life it makes you ask. Haunting, beautiful, a horror story about parenting, complicated — it’s a wonderful book.” —Elizabeth McCracken