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• The downfall of Albert Lesiak
• Don't miss our Monday read, from Adrianne Harun's "Catch, Release"
• One more reason to miss Seattle7Writers
• This year's Bullitt Lecture is a must-attend
• Read a chapter from No Good Deed, courtesy of sponsor Rosemary Reeve
• Read a chapter from River of Angels, courtesy of sponsor Abbe Rolnick
• Short Run is Seattle's best book festival
• Mark your calendar for the last (sob!) Seattle7Writers Holiday Bookfest
• Catch the Jack Straw Writers Showcase on November 3
• Tricking power into acts of love
• Memorial for Debbie Sarow, October 25
• Lit Crawl proves that Seattle's literary community shows up big in hard times
• And now a word from our sponsor
• Celebrate with the Washington State Book Award winners on October 13
• Captain Ginger saves the universe
• Neil Gaiman and David Sedaris back to back, Nov. 18 and 19
• Talking about the birds and bees in the #MeToo era
• Portrait Gallery will return next week
• Spend Nov. 18 with Neil Gaiman — then spend Nov. 19 with David Sedaris
• Seattle7Writers is back to celebrate the new Hugo House!
• From Sydney to Seattle
• Mark your calendars for an inspired pairing!
• Future Alternative Past: a stroll through a columnists memory
• Zadie Smith and Pete Souza added to Seattle Arts & Lectures calendar
• Cookout at Queen Anne Book Company? Sign us up!
• AHOY Comics is coming!
• 2019 Washington State Book Awards submissions are open!
• Meta-metamorphosis
• Fall and Winter sponsorship blocks are now live!
• "The old throes of violence seem to have passed away"
• A trail of blood and ink
• Read a sample from the dark thriller Down the Brink
• Hear Peter Curtis at University Book Store on June 27
• Shipwrecks, sailboats, and stories of the sea
• Come out June 7 for the release of Walk Tall Y'all
• An anything-but-ordinary book release
• Get tickets now for Seattle Arts & Lectures 2018/19 season
• Catch up with Kelly Davio and It's Just Nerves
• Celebrate 20 years of Seattle Reads with Yaa Gyasi and SPL
• A huge thanks to our sponsors! (Maybe you'd like to join them?)
• Take advantage of earlybird rates at the Chuckanut Writers Conference!
• A book about making a book. And cheddar biscuits.
• Aaron Bagley's Dream Comics: Livin' the dream
• The witches are coming, and they're bringing Lindy West
• One week left to reserve a seat at Anne Lamott's April 8 event
• Join UW Libraries on May 2 for dinner featuring Ted Chiang
• Get a peek at Janet Buttenwieser's new memoir
• The death of Reason
• NPR publishes report accusing Sherman Alexie of harassment
• Look again
• The Seattle Times publishes a report on the allegations against Sherman Alexie
• The sharpest ear in Hollywood
• Not really a comic book
• The flimflam man is back, again (with a new chapter for you)
• The flimflam man is back
• A winter cento, courtesy of sponsor Poetry Northwest
• Criminal Fiction: The best of the quintessential interviews
• Don't miss the Feb. 15 application deadline for Mineral School residencies
• In this week's sponsor sample, meet a warrior with a heart and a mission
• The paranoid genie in the bottle
• Resolve not to miss author Anne Lamott in April at Benaroya Hall
• Grab tickets fast to workshop "Calypso" with David Sedaris
• Applications for 2018 Mineral School residencies are open!
• Don't wait for an engraved invitation
• A year of great books, delivered to you
• Check out a sample from The Starting Gate, courtesy of sponsor Paul Mullin
• In a world of betrayal and dark magic
• Sponsorships open through July, with a discount for past sponsors
• Read "Strong is the new sexy" from sponsor Kelly Davio
• Publish beautiful books with Third Place Press
• What we saw (and loved) at Short Run
• Come out November 3rd to hear Aaron Shurin, with special guest Alex Vigue
• Fly to the Assemblies! calls Seattle to action
• Last night's Lit Crawl was worth braving the traffic apocalypse
• Celebrate the launch of Melinda Mueller's latest on October 21
• The Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair is just days away
• Mark Oct. 14th and 15th for the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair
• Save the date for the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair
• Modern life — guided by a set of tested principles
• We're only living this instant
• Save the date for SAL's Sherman Alexie Loves, Women You Need to Know, and a stellar poetry lineup
• Wide open spaces, tightly knit lives
• Love in the time of Brontosaurs
• With the greatest of ease
• Only a few days left in the Seattle Writing Prompts short story contest, judged by Matt Ruff
• A refugee on two continents: from Sydney to Seattle
• We're giving away free tickets to the Glass Castle screening. Here's how to win:
• Stop by sponsor Arundel Books for sculpture, sparkles, and, of course, books
• Thanks to you, we're turning two
• Summer Sponsorship deals!
• Seattle Arts & Lectures is saving a place for you
• Ordinary lives told with extraordinary heart
• Announcing our Seattle Writing Prompts short story contest, judged by Matt Ruff!
• Sponsorships now open through January 2018
• This summer brought to you courtesy of ...
• From constraint comes a new small poetry book
• Modern life, guided by a set of tested principles
• Ordinary people, not ordinary reading
• Cocktail hour in Portland, after the fall
• How do you make a solar pizza oven, again?
• Keeping our sense of decorum as the world falls apart
• Caught in the Lights
• Our Independent Bookstore Day, in photos
• Thirty years of an amazing local publisher
• An evening with Laird Hunt
• A taut high-tech thriller
• From mythology to the modern world
• High concept SF that delivers
• Annie Proulx, twenty-eight local authors, and you
• A chance to see Annie Proulx live
• A good deal on sponsorships
• A book of amazing "deadpan surrealism"
• Support Gay City!
• A musical journey in the 90s
• Deadline is approaching fast for applying to Mineral School
• Neil Gaiman is coming to Seattle
• Please consider donating the ACLU
• Writers: time to go back to school
• Tickets released for David Sedaris performances on Sunday
• Seven days of Sedaris
• Pin-ups from the 50s, advertising from the future
• Remembering a New York now gone from an eye-witness
• A bizarre trek though a bizarre world
• The long memory of the Civil War
• On being who you are, and finding your own community
• An adventure in Northwest waters
• An amazing story of American sacrifice and duty
• Wait...who was really funny? Really?
• Stories from north of our north
• #JournalismSoWhite
• A full short story from a talented writer
• Letters to the Editor: More on the Washington State Book Awards
• Walking and writing about the land
• Is music literature?
• 30 years of an amazing local publisher
• Poetry and Imagery, and the press dedicated to presenting them together
• Books! Books and rare books! And more!
• The specific language of the medical world
• Our response to the Public Diversity Editor Report #1, September 2016
• The return of one of Seattle's favorite novelists
• In your wildest dreams
• Writing revealed on the stage
• A fascinating life, a fascinating book of stories
• A peek behind the Iron Curtain
• Get the better of us (unless someone beats you to it)
• A how-to in making sure your child becomes an addict
• Seattle Arts & Lectures amazing 2016/17 Season
• An important novel about gay men and AIDS in 1980's Seattle
• An anticipated second novel from an ex-Seattlite!
• A gripping drama from an emerging Israeli novelist
• The ethical way to get the word out about your project
• A rare Seattle visit from bestselling British suspense novelist
• Interview with our new Public Diversity Editor
• Two hundred years ago this week
• The modern mid-century spy novel
• Hugo House in the (new) House!
• Father's Day gift ideas? We got you covered
• Note from our sponsor: Bookish Brunch is cancelled
• A few good deals on sponsorships, first come first served!
• Brunch in Seattle is more fun with writers
• Talking about race in Seattle, through personal experience
• Win tickets to see Annie Proulx
• A consciousness with five heads
• Everybody's idea of fun
• The perfect mind-meld
• Isn't Easter already past? Not if you're in the Orthodox church
• 2015 Floating Bridge Press finalist Maya Jewell Zeller has two poems to share
• Letters to the Editor: Commercialit, revisited
• Open Call for a Public Diversity Editor
• These poems are political
• A correction on an earlier post
• Let's talk some more about Poetry Northwest
• APRIL Festival Starts Tomorrow
• Mail Bag: A real librarian weighs in
• Easter in the middle of the night
• The magic of alternate histories and books set in Washington
• Poetry and classical music together
• The art that comes from restriction
• From Solitaire to Otherlife
• Collage and poetry together
• Michael Schmeltzer's Elegy/Elk River
• Sponsorships through July now open
• Karma's a Killer book release party
• You belong in Mineral School
• Time to go back to Mineral School
• Supernatural thrillers from an experienced author
• It's all in the bloodline
• One day left to read some work from local poet Priscilla Long
• A local poet's latest
• One more day before the band stops playing
• It's a musician's life
• Read a chapter from Gregg Olsen through tomorrow
• A mystery in our own back yard
• One day left to read three poems from Nicole Sarrocco
• Be sure to read these Nicole Sarracco poems
• One day left to preview some great holiday genre fiction
• A great holiday story collection
• One day left to see Donald Kentop's Frozen by Fire
• APRIL's throwing a writing contest, and you're invited
• The Triangle Factory Fire of 1911, documented in verse
• One day left to check out Twelve Saints
• Twelve Saints is poetry and art in collaboration
• One day left to read some amazing, moving work
• Next week could be yours
• An open letter to the Seattle Public Library Board of Trustees about SPL’s “anti-book” agenda
• Our thanks to sponsor Esther Altshul Helfgott
• It is the Day of the Library today
• Have you looked at Vegan Teenage Zombie Huntress yet?
• Check out this week's hilarious, awesome sponsor, G.G. Silverman
• Thanks to Mark Taylor for sponsoring this week!
• Last day to visit the 2015 Seattle Antiquarian Bookfair!
• Letters to the Editor: On representation in Seattle: City of Literature
• The Seattle Antiquarian Bookfair is this coming weekend, October 10th & 11th
• The Seattle Antiquarian Bookfair is coming October 10th & 11th
• Make plans to visit the Seattle Antiquarian Bookfair, October 10th & 11th
• Mark your calendars: Priscilla Long's Crossing over at Elliott Bay Books, September 19th
• Priscilla Long's Crossing Over: reading on September 19th
• One day left to read two excerpts from J.G. Perkins' The Announcers
• J.G. Perkins' The Announcers
• One day left to read a chapter from Robert James Russell's Mesilla
• Robert James Russell's Mesilla
• Seattle author Kelley Eskridge is our sponsor this week
• Our thanks to sponsor Kelley Eskridge
• Our thanks to sponsor Darin Bradley
• Chimpanzee, by Darin Bradley
• One last thanks to Janine A. Southard
• Help us make internet advertisements 100 percent less terrible
• Read a chapter from Janine A. Southard's Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story
• Janine A. Southard's Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story