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A Conversation with Mark Lindquist   Conducted by Rich Rennicks, Borders.com Fiction Editor Mark Lindquist was an up-and-coming young author in the late ’80s with the success of his first two books, Sad Movies and Carnival Desires. Then, he disappeared from the literary scene for 10 years. He’s just reemerged with Never Mind Nirvana, Read more…

Smells Like Teen Spirit At 36, Never Mind Nirvana’s Protagonist is Stuck Between Adolescence and Adulthood by Francine Almash for iUniverse.com Make no mistake, Mark Lindquist is not Pete Tyler, though occasionally reviewers seem to forget that. Lindquist, the real-life author of the novel Never Mind Nirvana in which Pete Read more…

Novelist and Pierce County deputy prosecutor Mark Lindquist is named one of People magazine’s 100 most eligible bachelors By Cheryl Reid Tacoma News Tribune Aug. 7, 2000 Never mind Tacoma After all, Mark Lindquist doesn’t in his latest novel, “Never Mind Nirvana.” The City of Destiny rates only a mention Read more…

Art Imitates Life Tacoma writer Mark Lindquist’s ‘Never Mind Nirvana’ closely resembles his lifestyle and work by Betsy Model The Olympian Dichotomy: Di-chot-o-my (di-KOTT-e-mee) noun. Separation of different or contradictory things: a separation into two divisions that differ widely from or contradict each other. See Mark Lindquist, Tacoma author. Dr. Read more…

Vanity Fair, 1990 “Look Back in Angler” by Angela Janklow Though a big fish in New York’s Atlantic Monthly Press pond (his first novel, “Sad Movies,” was their best-selling fiction paperback in 1987), Seattle-born writer, Mark Lindquist is firmly anchored in the Pacific, where he maneuvers his six-foot-six-inch frame around his Read more…

Details Magazine, 1990 By: Holly Pollard There’s a rule that says people who care about literature don’t care about Hollywood and that people who care about Hollywood don’t care about literature. Mark Lindquist’s smart new novel “Carnival Desires” will change this. This compelling opus is not really about Hollywood, but Read more…

Arts & Entertainment : Monday, May 01, 2000 Novel’s trial based in the heart of grunge  By Claire Dederer Special to The Seattle Times The Web site for Mark Lindquist’s new novel, “Never Mind Nirvana,” features a photograph of girls from a Nathan Hale High School cheerleading squad. They form Read more…

Reconstruction Of The Fables: The Dynamic Interplay Of Music And Literature By MARK LINDQUIST & PETER BUCK for the HARTFORD COURANT October 14, 2001 The poster has moved with me now for 15 years. It’s part of a series for America’s public libraries, featuring a very young-looking R.E.M., with Peter Read more…

A Retrospective on Kurt Vonnegut’s “Mother Night” Reviewed by Mark Lindquist Post Road Magazine, Issue 10, 2005 “This is the only story of mine whose moral I know,” Kurt Vonnegut writes in the introduction of “Mother Night,” his third novel. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must Read more…

Washington Law & Politics, June-July, 2007 Stranger Than Truth By O. Casey Corr Their court cases are riveting, but wait till you read local lawyer’s novels, inspired by real-life drama. It’s a scene ripped from the pages of a legal thriller: the tough, tall, good-looking prosecutor making his closing argument Read more…

Contact “We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.” Henry Melvill, preacher, but often attributed to Herman Melville, novelist  Mark Lindquist has a public Facebook page, a personal Facebook Read more…

Events New Novel I’m making progress during the pandemic on my new novel, which is buzzing along much like Never Mind Nirvana did twenty years ago. You can read more about it in my “Gratitude” blog post. Zen Lawyer Zen Lawyer, my first non-fiction book, is a collection of stories Read more…

About Mark Lindquist Welcome to Mark Lindquist’s author website. He also has a website for his law firm. Sad Movies Author and attorney Mark Lindquist was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. He attended the University of Washington, then transferred to the University of Southern California. After graduating, he Read more…