Books & Talks

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Seattle Bookshelf

01/14/2011

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God, Guts, and Sons

Ron Reagan, Magnolia resident and son of President Ronald Reagan, from his new memoir My Father at 100

01/14/2011

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Seattle Bookshelf

12/13/2010

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Knight Writer

Neal Stephenson, Time-Traveling Author

12/13/2010 By Matthew Halverson

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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.

11/18/2010

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The Facebook Comic

You don’t publish graphic novels—and allegedly not pay your artists—without making a few enemies.

11/18/2010

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"Teh Biznuss" Man

Ben Huh

09/15/2010 By Matthew Halverson

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Arts Crush

09/14/2010 By Alexandra Notman

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Gulp Fiction

Seattleite Molly Ringle’s winning entry in the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest to write the worst first line of a novel.

07/20/2010

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Ira Glass Has the Flu

The host of This American Life can’t talk right now.

07/20/2010 Edited by Laura Dannen

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Main Man

Eat your veggies—and pay no attention to the man behind the middle finger.

06/15/2010 By Jessica Voelker

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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.

05/21/2010 By Compiled by Eric Scigliano

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All the President’s Been

New Yorker editor David Remnick bridges the gaps in Obama’s life story.

05/14/2010 By Eric Scigliano

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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.

04/20/2010

Passing Through

Saffron Revolutionary

An exiled monk sips tea and looks toward better times in Burma.

03/18/2010 By Eric Scigliano

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Checked Out

Seattle Public Library closed for a week this summer. Here’s why you should give a shhhh.

10/19/2009

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The Not-So-Final Frontier

A Seattleite wrote the Star Trek backstory. Will the new movie ruin her universe?

04/23/2009

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Last Comic Landing

Did D. B. Cooper take his cue from an obscure French comic book?

04/23/2009