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At its public launch party last night, Seattle-based Typetrigger announced plans for a $500 writing grant that will be awarded quarterly to one of its users.
The site, which had until recently been invitation-only, dispenses brief...
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If you've been at a Thursday night loss since Friends ended, this is the week you're finally going to leave the house. Two literary events are happening mere blocks from each other, replete with alcohol, donuts and writer types who will...
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A while back, I posted about a website called Bookshelf Porn, which fed my insatiable fascination with the ways books just look. In a similar vein, I recently began following Paperback Library.
Photo originally from books n buildings...
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Though there is a great reading happening tonight at University Bookstore with Grace Krilanovich, Ryan Boudinot and Gabriel Blackwell, over at Pilot Books, Brian McGuigan presents Adult Story Time.
Brian, founder of Cheap Wine & Poetry...
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Part 3 of our original serial, Your Crooked Neighbor, is here! Check it out now in the Ampersand section online.
In this episode, the narrator goes on a first date with Justin, the guy who randomly asked him out while helping a friend "...
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If you were unable to attend any Seattle 100 events at City Arts Fest, make an effort to catch Chase Jarvis at Elliott Bay Book Co. tonight at 7pm, where he'll be making an appearance to promote the book Seattle 100: Portrait of a City. The...
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Asking someone about their mother can be tricky. Reactions can range from effusive devotion to pure hatred, or sometimes general disinterest. Women in the roles of mothers in popular culture and historic literature can be a simple object of...
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His debut novel of young adult fiction, The Tilting House, just hit bookshelves this last summer, but author Tom Llewelyn is not resting on his laurels. As announced on his blog, Letter Off Dead, the multi-talented artist – who is also one-...
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I have had the pleasure of previewing what will surely be a Tacoma classic.
100 Tacomics: The Secular and Apolitical Cartoon Life of Tacoma and Her Moral People(s) is a compilations of works by artist, cartoonist, political button-pusher...
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What would you do if you had a time machine? If you were at all like the characters in Charles Yu’s “science fictional universe,” you would most likely pay wads of cash to “relive [your] very worst moment over and over again.”
And it would...
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As it does every year, the Richard Hugo House is asking would-be, could-be, should-be writers (as well as already-are writers) to submit poems, short stories and essays for the opportunity to be a part of the Capitol Hill writing center's...
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Every so often, while trolling the micro-arts-funding site Kickstarter, we find a project we deem worthy of your cold, hard cash. This go round, we are imploring you to give a little cash to the folks at Capitol Hill's Pilot Books for their...
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Author Yiyun Li has had a good year. This summer, The New Yorker named her one of their Top Twenty Writers Under Forty; and, just last month, she received the MacArthur Fellowship.
Impressive for someone who never intended to be a...
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The title of Megan Snyder-Camp’s debut collection of poems, The Forest of Sure Things, is an enticing one. Released in August from Tupelo, Snyder-Camp’s collection is a stunning first book for this poet, who just this year...
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Doughnuts have rightfully gotten the attention they deserve in recent years.
While there are plenty of resources to learn how to make doughnuts at home, local photographer and food blogger Lara Ferroni’s aptly titled cookbook, Doughnuts:...
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Here's Tao Lin, whom I recently interviewed about his latest novel Richard Yates, appearing on a show called Cooking the Books. Basically, the host discusses an author's work while sharing a recipe.
Though I didn't mention it in my...
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Cartoonist, columnist and war correspondent Ted Rall appears at Elliott Bay Book Co. today at 6:00pm, promoting his latest book, The Anti-American Manifesto, which is being called one of his most radical works yet.
That's saying...
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Thirty-six authors attempt to do the highly improbable - write a novel in under a week.
The Novel: Live! has assembled an amazing roster of local authors to attempt this literary feat, including bestsellers (Elizabeth George, Garth...
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On Monday morning next week, Jennie Shortridge, author of When She Flew, will sit down before a computer on the Richard Hugo House’s Cabaret stage – and she will begin to type.
Six days later, Shortridge, along with thirty-five other...
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Last night, James Howard Kunstler almost lost me.
Read on after the jump.
