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Jon Raymond’s ‘Freebird’ Is About the Conversations We Don’t Have With One Another
Also—about a scheme where someone profits off of everyone else’s literal crap.
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At Bushwick Book Club, Musicians Turn Books Into Song
The latest installment has musicians taking on water-themed passages from local books.
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“We Told You So” Tells How Fantagraphics Failed Its Way to Success
The 700-page doozy dives into 40 years of comics publishing via oral history and, of course, comics.
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Sara Schulman’s Queer Perspective on Conflict
Her thesis in ‘Conflict’ is to deflate the concept that feelings are inviolable.
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A ‘Citizen’ in Trump’s America
Our monthly post-election book club returns this Wednesday with a discussion of Claudia Rankine’s work at Third Place…
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What You Need to Do for Literary Seattle in 2017
The local books that stuck with Paul Constant this year, as well as a challenge for the next.
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Christmas Claims Its Literary Victims
With Lit Fix and Origin Stories, December 14 is effectively the last day of Seattle’s 2016 lit calendar.
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Matthew Simmons Is Poking at the Elemental in His Short Stories
In ‘The In-Betweens,’ you are God’s crash-test dummy.
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Maged Zaher Is Leaving Town
Before he moves to Atlanta, catch the revolutionary local poet’s final reading this weekend.
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The Furnace Goes Cold
After four years of storytelling “with vigor,” the Hollow Earth reading series comes to a close.
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‘Now for the Disappointing Part’ Is a Book About Selling Your Soul to Amazon on a Temp Basis
Work work work work work.
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Twenty-Four Local Writers Pile Into a Party Bus for Indies First
This Saturday, the roving gang of writers will visit three Seattle indie bookstores.
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Introducing “Reading Through It: A Post-Election Book Club”
Join us for a monthly discussion of how to move forward in Donald Trump’s America.
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Vote With Your Wallet at Seattle 7 Writers’ Holiday Bookfest
Now more than ever, we want to keep our money in the neighborhoods where we live.
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Donna Miscolta’s Short Stories Are a Balm For Our ‘Troubulent’ Times
The Seattle author’s new book ‘Hola and Goodbye,’ is a reminder that monsters will never win.
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A Stacked Bumbershoot Reading Lineup Redux—This Time, for Free
Sherman Alexie, Robert Lashley, and EJ Koh will join forces once more this Friday.
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Short Run Is Coming! (Sleep When You’re Dead)
Prepare for the small-press and comics festival’s bountiful offerings all this week.
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A New Anthology Celebrates Seattle’s Underrepresented South End
‘Emerald Reflections’ Collects the Best of the “South Seattle Emerald”
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Lit Crawl’s One-Day Deluge of Readings
On Thursday, Downtown, First Hill, and Capitol Hill will teem with authors.
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This Weekend, Seattle Cartoon Overload
Release parties from local comic artists Noel Franklin, Mark Campos, and collective THE HAND.