Ryan Boudinot

Fall Arts Calendar: September

Slush Pile! August LOLcat Edition

​Summer in general and August in particular is a sleepy time for book publishing. But several local authors have been hard at work, so let's take a quick look at their inky efforts. It's tourist season, so erstwhile SW contributor J. Kingston Pierce has supplied the text to a coffee table boo ... More >>

Hurts So Good at Hugo House

If you wonder (and sometimes I do) why the hell anyone would go to an author reading, Friday night at Hugo House provided a convincing answer. Wonderfully curated and unpretentiously hosted by program director Alix Wilber, this second installment of the Hugo Literary Series featured truly riveting " ... More >>

Personal Injury

If you wonder (and sometimes I do) why the hell anyone would go to an author reading, Friday night at Hugo House provided a convincing answer. Wonderfully curated and unpretentiously hosted by program director Alix Wilber, this second installment of the Hugo Literary Series featured truly riveting " ... More >>

Ryan Boudinot & Jonathan Raban

Local lit stars carry on about art

The Littlest Hitler: Stories

One of the more exciting short-story collections to come out of Seattle in a long time.

Talent Required

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