Category: Literature
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Author C.J. Cherryh Brings Her Foreigner Series to Audio, with Sable Jak at the Helm
Audio Cinema Entertainment has obtained the rights to produce a full-cast audio version of the first three books of Hugo Award-winning author C.J. Cherryh’s science fiction series, Foreigner Universe. And they have chosen Seattle.
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Bardolatry and Its Discontents
Shakespeare is treated with a true idolatry–Bardolatry. Producing groups do not help when they treat audience members like sheep and imply that they need not understand Shakespeare. Theaters are there to pass down the Law. They expect that the barbarians simply arrive at the Church…
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Compulsive Talker
Pamela Hobart Carter’s latest poem, about communication, connection and isolation.
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In the Bathroom
She must be wondering what I am doing in the bathroom. As am I. She is not alone. She is not alone in wondering. I always am, usually. I am always wondering what I am doing. Is not everybody? I mean wondering what they are…
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My Night at Trainwreck: A Celebration of Bad Celebrity Memoir
Yesterday evening while you may have been relaxing at the beach, or sipping a chilly margarita on some shady porch, Heather Logue was helping the children by perspiring her face off in the sweaty JewelBox Theatre and laughing at the unfortunate choices some celebrities have…
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She is not she if she holds still
she leaves the father eternally immersed in research, the mother who lines windowsills with silent ferns, plies them with silent care, her children too —heads out
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Life, Death, Computers, Books, Baseball: Seattle Star Interviews Novelist Laurie Frankel
Tamiko Nimura interviews novelist Laurie Frankel about her new book, Goodbye For Now, a speculative novel about technology, death and dying, human foibles and acceptance. And model airplanes.
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Tonight at Elliott Bay Books: Bruce Holbert Reads From His Lonesome Animals
There is something soothing about a novel—the way that it can transport you from an often traumatizing, confusing world into one where boundaries, intentions, and the difference between right and wrong are more defined. There is comfort in recognizing the “bad guys” of the story,…
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False start with Pullulation and Yada-yada
Another bit of experimental prosody from renown Seattle choreographer, dancer and poet Christin Call.
