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What You Need in 2025

“You can’t always get what you want, but if you try, sometimes you might find you get what you need.”  When I saw The Rolling Stones in Seattle a few years ago, I thought it would be the last time. I was wrong.  Sloane and I saw the Stones just Read more…

By Mark, 9 months01/17/2025 ago
Never Mind Nirvana by author and attorney Mark Lindquist
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Signed Books and Spirits Auction

Please join us November 17, 2016, at Kings Books in Tacoma, 7pm, for our 8th Annual Signed Books and Spirits Auction. #KeepOurProsecutor Guest star auctioneers will be auctioning off signed books from Governor Jay Inslee, U.S. Representative Denny Heck, and, of course, me. New York Times bestselling authors Maria Semple Read more…

By Mark, 9 years11/15/2016 ago
Review

Norwegian Wood and Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

Arts & Entertainment: Sunday, June 3, 2001 Norweigan Wood and Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami Reviewed by Mark Lindquist Special to The Seattle Times “Norwegian Wood,” Haruki Murakami’s second novel, just published in America in paperback, sold more than 4 million copies in Japan when it was published in 1987. Read more…

By Mark, 12 years09/26/2013 ago
Review

My Life in Heavy Metal by Steve Almond

Entertainment & the Arts; Sunday, April 28, 2002 “My Life in Heavy Metal” by Steve Almond Reviewed by Mark Lindquist Special to The Seattle Times This is the coolest and freshest collection of short stories I’ve read since the 1980s. While his contemporaries turn to novels and screenplays, Steve Almond Read more…

By Mark, 12 years09/26/2013 ago
Never Mind Nirvana by author and attorney Mark Lindquist
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Filmmaker Sandra Nettelbeck’s foreword to Never Mind Nirvana

Foreward to the German edition of “Never Mind Nirvana” Mark Lindquist never makes anything up except names. He writes down his life. Not to know his other books and to start with “Never Mind Nirvana” is a little bit like opening a biography somewhere in the middle and starting to Read more…

By Mark, 12 years06/27/2013 ago
  • 11 Karens by Peter Lefcourt
  • A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
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  • All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
  • All the Finest Girls by Alexandra Styron
  • American Falls by Barry Gifford
  • Another Life by Michael Korda
  • Anything Goes by Madison Smartt Bell
  • Are You Experienced by William Sutcliffe
  • Art Imitates Life
  • Ash Wednesday by Ethan Hawke
  • Baby Cat-Face by Barry Gifford
  • Balling the Jack by Frank Baldwin
  • Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs by Irvine Welsh
  • Blade Runner 2 by KW Jeter
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  • Blood Will Out by Walter Kirn
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  • Borders.com Interview
  • Bream Gives Me Hiccups by Jesse Eisenberg
  • Burning Girl by Ben Neihart
  • Chasing the Dream by Harry Hurt III
  • Chump Change by David Eddie
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  • Crow Fair by Thomas McGuane
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  • Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
  • Essays on Blank Generation Fiction by Young & Caveney
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  • Everybody Smokes in Hell by John Ridley
  • Family Values by Lawrence David
  • Fan Mail by Ronald Munson
  • Filmmaker Sandra Nettelbeck’s foreword to Never Mind Nirvana
  • Force Majeure by Bruce Wagner
  • Former county prosecutor now fights for victims of Boeing airline disasters
  • Four Blondes by Candace Bushnell
  • Fugitives and Refugees by Chuck Palahniuk
  • Glue by Irvine Welsh
  • Haunted
  • Heavier Than Heaven by Charles Cross
  • Home
  • How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
  • iUniverse.com interview of Mark Lindquist
  • JPod by Douglas Coupland
  • Kockroach by Tyler Knox
  • Kurt Vonnegut letter to Mark Lindquist
  • Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness by Peggy Noonan
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  • Little Children by Tom Perotta
  • Lo’s Diary by Pia Pera
  • Love Hexagon by William Sutcliffe
  • Love is a Racket by John Ridley
  • Lullaby by Chuck Palahnuik
  • Mark Lindquist and Peter Buck Talk
  • Mark Lindquist Carnival Desires
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  • Miscellaneous Materials
  • Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland
  • Model Behavior by Jay McInerney
  • Music for Torching by A.M. Homes
  • My Liar by Rachel Cline
  • My Life in Heavy Metal by Steve Almond
  • Norwegian Wood and Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
  • Not Ready Prime Time by Brent Askari
  • Novel’s trial based in the heart of grunge
  • One Night Out Stealing by Alan Duff
  • Outrage: Five Reasons OJ Got Away with Murder by Vincent Bugliosi
  • Outrage: Five Reasons OJ Simpson Got Away with Murder by Vincent Bugliosi
  • Pages magazine cover starring literary brat pack
  • People Magazine with Mark Lindquist
  • Perfidy by James Ellroy
  • Pharmakon by Dirk Wittenborn
  • Phoenix: A Brother’s Life by J.D. Dolan
  • Pool by Ajay Sahgal
  • Porno by Irvine Welsh
  • Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man by Joseph Heller
  • Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk
  • Rants, Exploits and Obsessions
  • Ready, Okay! by Adam Cadre
  • Retrospective on Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night
  • Reviews by Mark Lindquist: 1998 – 2007
  • Reviews by Mark Lindquist: 2008 – 2018
  • Rich Kids by Robert Westbrook
  • Scorched Earth by Stuart Stevens
  • Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
  • Soft Maniacs by Maggie Estep
  • South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
  • Still Holding by Bruce Wagner
  • Tacoma News Tribune interview
  • Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley
  • The Clinic by Jonathan Kellerman
  • The Disappointment Artist by Jonathan Lethem
  • The Evil B. B. Chow by Steve Almond
  • The Gates of Eden by Ethan Coen
  • The Kingdom of Shivas Irons, by Michael Murphy, New York Times Book Review
  • The Legal Limit by Martin Clark
  • The Painted House by John Grisham
  • The Runaway Jury by John Grisham
  • The Wave by Caren Gussoff
  • This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Homes
  • This One is Mine by Maria Semple
  • Touch and Go, by Eugene Stein, New York Times Book Review
  • Trading Up by Candace Bushnell
  • Vanity Fair Interview of Mark Lindquist
  • Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
  • War Boy by Kief Hillsbery
  • Washington Law & Politics Interview
  • What’s Not To Love by Jonathan Ames, Seattle Times
  • Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by David Shafer
  • Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison
  • Willing by Scott Spencer
  • Wormwood by David Levien
  • Zeroville by Steve Erickson
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