At Magnuson Park last week, Ethan Hawke read the entire first chapter of his second novel, Ash Wednesday, and then…
If you weren’t at Zadie Smith’s lecture event last week, consider yourself officially outside this column’s target readership—we warned you…
Either Bookfest was far better this year, or we made fewer bad choices about what to see. Still, bad choices…
What do bohemians, gay people, and a pizza place in Georgetown have to do with the future of our economic prosperity? Everything.
Five decades ago, the poet Philip Whalen lived in a house on Roosevelt Way. Writer’s block had plagued him for…
Before we discuss Seamus Heaney (and we will do so shortly, and it will not be pretty) we have a…
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McCarthyism
Mr. Nude Seattle bares his body and soul to Seattle Weekly.
WHATEVER WE WERE doing, we’re not doing anymore—and whatever we were reading, we’ve put down. Great war books now have…
All right, readers, gather round. The esteemed Nightstand Official Word Game for a Prize jury has been deliberating over (and…
The newest in the “best” shorts competition falls short.
Alan Cumming loves his dog. The pansexual Scottish actor who achieved celebrity in the Broadway revival of Cabaret, and whose…
CAN THIS BE coincidence? There is very little in life that the Beatles didn’t sing about, so we asked the…
The five women behind Seattle Arts & Lectures are smart, young, and in love with Ira Glass.
“In Paris, we eat brains every night.” That’s the first line of Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, a novel…
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MONDAY NIGHT I didn’t sleep well, which sounds prophetic now. Tuesday was a restless morning. I looked at the clock…
The one-man show behind Wood Works Press.
Homelands, “ports of entry,” VX nerve agent, Project Bioshield, botulinum toxin, the Korean peninsula, Hitlerism—good god, last week was fun….
Book news and gossip.
Before Malcolm Gladwell took to the Convention Center stage last Saturday morning at the 35th annual National Association of Federal…
In the week and half since Kenneth Koch’s death, nobody has written about his life or his work as well…
