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Claudia Castro Luna, Seattle’s First Civic Poet, Wrestles With the City’s Biggest Problems
The poet says what the politician cannot.
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Seattle Poet Jeannine Hall Gailey’s Latest Book Ends the World Again and Again
Every way you’ve ever imagined the apocalypse, it’s probably in ‘Field Guide to the End of the World.’
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Bizarro Travel Experts Atlas Obscura Open a Seattle Chapter, Complete With Weird Parties
Hang out with a Prohibition-era jazz band in typically off-limits parts of the Seattle underground.
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Maria Semple’s Latest Is a Mean, Flawed Novel About a Mean, Flawed Woman
‘Today Will Be Different’ is the moodier, nastier little sister of ‘Where’d You Go Bernadette.’
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Amor Towles’ Grand Moscovian Hotel
The author’s new novel sees the Russian Revolution through the eyes of the aristocracy.
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Why Colson Whitehead, Not Jonathan Franzen, Is a Great American Novelist
The biggest tell? How each reacted to Oprah.
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Seattle Author Nisi Shawl Reimagines a Colonial Tragedy as a Steampunk African Kingdom
‘Everfair’ is a novel profoundly interested in justice.
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Amid the Overwhelming Fall Book Buzz, ‘Sleeping on Jupiter’ Truly Stands Out
Indian author Anuradha Roy’s newest is fiction that serves as an agent of social change.
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‘Zek’ Rips the Walls Away From a Prison in Eastern Washington
An underground classic in prisons, the book is being published for the public for the first time.
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Bumbershoot’s Literary Offerings: TV Writers, Poetry Battles, ‘Ask the Oracle,’ and More
During all the hoopla over Paul Allen’s Upstream Music Festival coming to Pioneer Square next year, I had…
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Dead Men Tell Plenty of Tales
The Nevertold Casket Co. brings lit to the crypt and opens its doors for readings.
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Meet Jane Wong, Sherman Alexie’s Favorite Local Poet
She reads this Saturday at Elliott Bay Books.
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Cody Walker, the Seattleite in Exile
A quintessential Seattle poet returns from Michigan for a quintessentially 2000s-era-Seattle lineup.
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At the New Literary Festival Bibliophilia, Page Will Meet Stage
The Pocket Theater in Greenwood will fill with authors and actors playing off one another.
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‘Brightfellow’ Continues a Long Tradition of Literary Orphans
Port Townsend author Rikki Ducornet’s new novel follows a forest-dwelling young man named Stub.
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Harry Potter and the Inexorable March of Time
As the character gets older, so do the fans who flock to his midnight release parties.
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Donald Ray Pollock Shows What Real America Looks Like
The Ohio found in his latest novel, ‘The Heavenly Table,’ is filled with violence, desperation, and humor.
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Poet Natasha Marin Captures a Commonality in Her Decade-Long Project
With ‘Red Lineage,’ the Seattle artist has invited an unending parade of agendas, ideologies, and beliefs. The results…
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Adam Heine’s Sci-Fi Debut Is Short on Pages, Long on Ideas
A samurai battles robots in a compelling new novella from a Seattle press.