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One of many literary pleasures this summer was reading the first novel by Seattle wordsmith, photographer, DJ and bon vivant Robert Zverin...

In the 1950's, the hugely influential filmmaker Chris Marker , who died earlier this year, worked for the publishing house Editions du...

I've been away on my annual Barcelona sojourn for the last 4 weeks, and have been dutifully ignoring the web while paying close attentio...

According to history, William Faulkner originally wanted wanted to publish his masterpiece The Sound and the Fury using colored inks to sig...

In the summer of 2007 history professor Louis Mendoza set out from Santa Cruz on a bicycle with the idea of seeing first-hand the extent of...

Real Comet Press was founded in 1981 by Seattle arts activist, and owner of the legendary Comet Tavern , Cathy Hillenbrand. This prescient e...

From early 2009 to mid-2010, the Underbelly Project was the art world’s best-kept secret. After years of kept promises and hushed mouths, t...

In 1933, writer F. Scott Fitzgerald ended a letter to his 11-year-old daughter Scottie with a list of things to worry about, not worry abo...

If you're reading this blog, you've probably got a taste for old school media - ie. beautiful handmade objects and actual printed bo...

Wild Animals - a beautiful self-published book by Dutch illustrator Rop van Mierlo — is already in its second printing. They're pretty...

Photographer Sharon Beals recently published Nests: Fifty Nests and the Birds that Built Them , a book of 50 exquisitely observed nests bui...

Today Catalunya celebrates Sant Jordi's Day, among my favorite of all holidays. It is the feast day of the dragon slayer Saint George , ...

In October 1966 Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was a successful boxer, in training for a shot at the world middleweight title. He was a...

February is the month where people start thinking about Spring. They’ve endured November, December, and January, the holidays are well past...

Essayist, playwright and actor Wallace Shawn will be in Seattle on January 20 to present his new book of essays, called simply " Essays...

...and non-fiction. Just Kids by Patti Smith . It's been widely praised and well lauded, and all for good reason. Smith's memoir cap...

Without any attempt to list all the books I read this year, much less try to gauge the "best" of them, these are some of the books...

Granta literary journal, and its Spanish language spinoff Granta en Español , just released their magazines' respective November issues...

Leonardo Ericailcane is best known for his large scale street art, but his small works on paper are also very beautiful and absorbing. Eric...

826 Seattle is a nonprofit organization focused on teaching young people how to improve their writing, and helping teachers inspire their s...