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Steve Earle

Creamy Cauliflower Soup Recipe from Around My French Table

Turn this into something warm and delicious.​Dorie Greenspan has inspired many cooks over the years - amateur and professional - and has a huge following of fans as seen on her recent stop in Seattle to promote Around My French Table. It's the perfect go-to French cookbook. Read Part I for the ... More >>

Mae Ngai

Turn this into something warm and delicious.​Dorie Greenspan has inspired many cooks over the years - amateur and professional - and has a huge following of fans as seen on her recent stop in Seattle to promote Around My French Table. It's the perfect go-to French cookbook. Read Part I for the ... More >>

Timothy Egan

Turn this into something warm and delicious.​Dorie Greenspan has inspired many cooks over the years - amateur and professional - and has a huge following of fans as seen on her recent stop in Seattle to promote Around My French Table. It's the perfect go-to French cookbook. Read Part I for the ... More >>

Tim Egan

Turn this into something warm and delicious.​Dorie Greenspan has inspired many cooks over the years - amateur and professional - and has a huge following of fans as seen on her recent stop in Seattle to promote Around My French Table. It's the perfect go-to French cookbook. Read Part I for the ... More >>

Tim Egan

Turn this into something warm and delicious.​Dorie Greenspan has inspired many cooks over the years - amateur and professional - and has a huge following of fans as seen on her recent stop in Seattle to promote Around My French Table. It's the perfect go-to French cookbook. Read Part I for the ... More >>

Timothy Egan

Turn this into something warm and delicious.​Dorie Greenspan has inspired many cooks over the years - amateur and professional - and has a huge following of fans as seen on her recent stop in Seattle to promote Around My French Table. It's the perfect go-to French cookbook. Read Part I for the ... More >>

The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Recommended Events

Turn this into something warm and delicious.​Dorie Greenspan has inspired many cooks over the years - amateur and professional - and has a huge following of fans as seen on her recent stop in Seattle to promote Around My French Table. It's the perfect go-to French cookbook. Read Part I for the ... More >>

Matthew Amster-Burton

Turn this into something warm and delicious.​Dorie Greenspan has inspired many cooks over the years - amateur and professional - and has a huge following of fans as seen on her recent stop in Seattle to promote Around My French Table. It's the perfect go-to French cookbook. Read Part I for the ... More >>

Matthew Amster-Burton

Turn this into something warm and delicious.​Dorie Greenspan has inspired many cooks over the years - amateur and professional - and has a huge following of fans as seen on her recent stop in Seattle to promote Around My French Table. It's the perfect go-to French cookbook. Read Part I for the ... More >>

Peter Rock

Turn this into something warm and delicious.​Dorie Greenspan has inspired many cooks over the years - amateur and professional - and has a huge following of fans as seen on her recent stop in Seattle to promote Around My French Table. It's the perfect go-to French cookbook. Read Part I for the ... More >>

Anthologize Me!

Turn this into something warm and delicious.​Dorie Greenspan has inspired many cooks over the years - amateur and professional - and has a huge following of fans as seen on her recent stop in Seattle to promote Around My French Table. It's the perfect go-to French cookbook. Read Part I for the ... More >>

Rick Bass

Turn this into something warm and delicious.​Dorie Greenspan has inspired many cooks over the years - amateur and professional - and has a huge following of fans as seen on her recent stop in Seattle to promote Around My French Table. It's the perfect go-to French cookbook. Read Part I for the ... More >>

My BEA Diaries

Turn this into something warm and delicious.​Dorie Greenspan has inspired many cooks over the years - amateur and professional - and has a huge following of fans as seen on her recent stop in Seattle to promote Around My French Table. It's the perfect go-to French cookbook. Read Part I for the ... More >>

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Graphic novelist looks into her own family secrets.

Tom Robbins' Attraction

Thirty years ago in Seattle Weekly.

From Dust to Dust

Timothy Egan's timely tale of the nation's worst eco-disaster.

This Week's Reads

Michael Chorost and David A. Neiwert.

This Week's Reads

Jonathan Safran Foer, Åsne Seierstad, Jonathan Wilson, and Mary Guterson.

This Week's Reads

Francine Prose, and Jordan Fisher Smith.

Savion Glover

Also: Lin Tianmiao, The Lawless Breed, Buck 65, and Jordan Fisher Smith.

Twilight of the Gods?

Off his game, but we hope not out of the competition, Philip Roth can't sustain the premise of his audacious historical rewrite.

It Didn't Happen Here

Philip Roth explains that though he dislikes our current national politics, the alternatives were once much worse.

Choice Cuts

Dave Eggers makes your bus ride that much easier to bear.

This Week's Reads

Hampton Sides, Paul Roberts, and Bob Woodward.

This Week's Reads

Steve Olson, Bret Lott, and Davitt Sigerson.

This Week's Reads

Lynne Truss, Neal Bascomb, Pico Iyer, and Derrick Jensen and George Draffan.

This Week's Reads

Kevin Phillips, Timothy Egan, Dale Peck, and Andy Greenwald.

Cookbooks 2003

The year of back to basics.

Talent Required

Two young, unknown Seattle writers pop up in the Eggers pantheon.

This Week's Reads

Jhumpa Lahiri, David Guterson, Dan Kennedy, and Nell Freudenberger.

Boom Lit

Three years after the tech crash, Seattle authors are starting to mine their memories of the dot-com era.

This Week's Reads

Jane Smiley, Sherman Alexie, Michael Byers, and Meghan Daum.

This Week's Reads

Azar Nafisi, Bill McKibben, Robert Stone, Lindsay Grehsam & Spain Rodriguez, and William E. Jarvis.

Book 'Em

Capturing minds of every age with a good read.

Obsession: For Them

Gifts for three very particular fixations.

The Things He Refuses to Drop

Tim O'Brien on the 1960s. Again.

Class Clown

The newest in the "best" shorts competition falls short.

Very Briefly Noted

Short reviews of books of shorts.

Silver Maple

A short story by Michael Byers.

Stampeding Through Time

Skip the crowds at Woodland Park and instead enjoy this sweeping, beautifully written account of elephants through the ages.

Sentimental Journey

The most heartbreaking work by a staggeringly genius postmodern twentysomething since, well, you know.

The revolution Will Be Published

Karl Marx provides coffee cake and a left-wing reading list.

Karl Marx's Top 25 Reading List for Resurgent Radicalism

Karl Marx provides coffee cake and a left-wing reading list.

Fair abuse

The wind done gone with the wind: a publishing controversy.

Supersize that

Why Americans can't get enough of what's bad for them.

Slave of New York

David Leavitt's novel revisits the literary world of 1980s Manhattan.

Book briefs

The desire to know, and the desire to know oneself.

Becoming Madame Mao

Retelling the life of China's most provocative first lady.