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Sam Sam likes strong coffee, live jazz and staying up late. He writes fiction, studies literature at Western, and once had a job selling lawnmowers. He also plays Bassoon and eats a lot of pasta.
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ISBN-13: 9780316925280
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Published: Back Bay Books, 2/1998

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ISBN-13: 9781400031511
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Published: Vintage, 1/2003
Forget all this talk about dragon tattoos and playing with fire…Mankell writes the best mysteries coming out of Sweden today and maybe ever.

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ISBN-13: 9780143038580
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Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 9/2007
Required reading for everybody who eats food.

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ISBN-13: 9780802145314
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Published: Grove Press, 5/2011

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ISBN-13: 9780142000700
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Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 2/2002
A pickup truck, a poodle and a vast country full of ordinary and extraordinary people.

Townie (Hardcover)

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ISBN-13: 9780393064667
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 2/2011
To call a piece of writing “visceral and yet elegant” has become something of a literary cliché, but it’s hard to talk about this memoir without invoking the description. Despite his lyrical, earthy prose, Dubus pulls no punches and dulls no edges as he describes growing up in a drug-laden and brutally violent mill town in the mid-1970s…just a few hours away from his father, a respected author and professor whose friends included Kurt Vonnegut and John Updike.

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ISBN-13: 9780684843322
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Published: Scribner, 8/1998

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ISBN-13: 9780061916052
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Published: Harper Perennial, 9/2010

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ISBN-13: 9780380727506
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks, 5/2001

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ISBN-13: 9780767908184
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Published: Broadway, 9/2004

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ISBN-13: 9780802141675
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Published: Grove Press, 3/2005

Tinkers (Paperback)

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ISBN-13: 9781934137123
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Published: Bellevue Literary Press, 1/2009

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ISBN-13: 9780375755217
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 4/2007

The Brothers K (Paperback)

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ISBN-13: 9780553378498
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Published: Dial Press Trade Paperback, 6/1996

2012 Chuckanut Writers Conference

2012 Chuckanut Writers Conference