Articles
An Interview with Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author of A Visit From the Goon Squad
By Laura Dannen
Publish or Perish the Thought
How to get your book from the recycling bin to the bookshelf.
By Laura Dannen
God, Guts, and Sons
Ron Reagan, Magnolia resident and son of President Ronald Reagan, from his new memoir My Father at 100
Pigskin Perp
Seattle Times reporters Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry, from their book, Scoreboard, Baby, about the thug-riddled 2000 Huskies' championship-winning football team.
The Facebook Comic
You don’t publish graphic novels—and allegedly not pay your artists—without making a few enemies.
Gulp Fiction
Seattleite Molly Ringle's winning entry in the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest to write the worst first line of a novel.
The President’s Analyst
David Remnick talks about Muhammed Ali and Obama, the Clintons and the Tea Baggers, how he managed to write The Bridge, his acclaimed new biography of Barack Obama, while editing The New Yorker, and how he can hear every writer’s voice except his own.
Brother, Can You Spare a Joke?
Garrison Keillor, during a live broadcast at the Paramount Theatre of his public radio program A Prairie Home Companion, April 3, 2010.
Checked Out
Seattle Public Library closed for a week this summer. Here’s why you should give a shhhh.
The Not-So-Final Frontier
A Seattleite wrote the Star Trek backstory. Will the new movie ruin her universe?
Poet of the Port Town
Just before ”Howl” made him famous, Allen Ginsberg savored old Seattle’s seaport rot.
An Open Letter to Minneapolis
Seattle named second most literate city. But don’t get too comfortable, No. 1.
Regarding Tess
When Tess Gallagher, the widow of acclaimed Northwest writer Raymond Carver, planned to publish early drafts of her late husband’s beloved short stories, the outcry from the New York publishing establishment was loud and rancorous.
