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Carpe Ethan
At Magnuson Park last week, Ethan Hawke read the entire first chapter of his second novel, Ash Wednesday,…
Christopher Frizzelle
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Zadie3
If you weren’t at Zadie Smith’s lecture event last week, consider yourself officially outside this column’s target readership—we…
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Festering
Either Bookfest was far better this year, or we made fewer bad choices about what to see. Still,…
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Brave New City
What do bohemians, gay people, and a pizza place in Georgetown have to do with the future of…
Arts & Culture
Poetry in the Wild
Five decades ago, the poet Philip Whalen lived in a house on Roosevelt Way. Writer’s block had plagued…
Arts & Culture
S Is for Seamus
Before we discuss Seamus Heaney (and we will do so shortly, and it will not be pretty) we…
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The war library
WHATEVER WE WERE doing, we’re not doing anymore—and whatever we were reading, we’ve put down. Great war books…
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Fist Fite II: The Knockout
All right, readers, gather round. The esteemed Nightstand Official Word Game for a Prize jury has been deliberating…
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Dogged
Alan Cumming loves his dog. The pansexual Scottish actor who achieved celebrity in the Broadway revival of Cabaret,…
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The magical mystery mayoral race
CAN THIS BE coincidence? There is very little in life that the Beatles didn’t sing about, so we…
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Lit Clique
The five women behind Seattle Arts & Lectures are smart, young, and in love with Ira Glass.
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Sales Job
“In Paris, we eat brains every night.” That’s the first line of Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?,…
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Happy Birthday, this is the end
MONDAY NIGHT I didn’t sleep well, which sounds prophetic now. Tuesday was a restless morning. I looked at…
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Peace Talk
Homelands, “ports of entry,” VX nerve agent, Project Bioshield, botulinum toxin, the Korean peninsula, Hitlerism—good god, last week…