What a Recent Portland Crime Might Tell Us About the Bartell Closings in Seattle

They Say It's Because of the Drugs and Crime. It's Not.

Today's Stranger Suggests: Elizabeth Rush at Elliott Bay Book Company

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Shelf Life

New Local Releases to Read This Fall

Jonathan Raban's Last Book Reminds Me of Jonathan Raban

Goodnight, My Old Friend

A Shit Fountain

Seattle Author Kristi Coulter Recounts 12 Years of Tiptoeing over Amazon’s Male Fragility

Father Figure

My Life in the Sunshine Is a Fantastic Memoir About Music, Family, and Seattle

Today's Stranger Suggests: Photo Center Northwest's Photo Zine and Book Fair

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Today's Stranger Suggests: Martha Shelley

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Can Seattle Do for August Wilson What Lake Forest Park Did for Octavia Butler?

Butler Was Not Only a Talented Science Fiction Writer, but a Brilliant Philosopher

Today's Stranger Suggests: Alex Pappademas and Joan LeMay: Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan

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Hi Honey, I'm Homo Is History That Won't Depress You During Pride

Culture Critic Matt Baume Not Only Recounts Sitcom TV's Tea—He Reads the Leaves

Elliott Bay Book Company Is Looking Spry at Fifty Years Old

Let’s Reminisce about That Time President Jimmy Carter Took a Disco Nap in the Bookstore’s Back Room

The Best Bookstores, Literary Events, and Libraries in Seattle

An Itinerary for Literature Lovers and Bibliophiles

Maybe It's the Seattle Freeze, Maybe It's White Supremacy

In Her Book Seattle from the Margins, Dr. Megan Asaka Uses Public Records and Oral Histories to Uncover the History of the Workers Who Built Seattle

Today's Stranger Suggests: Jane Wong with Michelle Peñaloza and Jin Ai Huang

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Today's Stranger Suggests: Seattle Independent Bookstore Day 2023

We Almost Lost the Couth Buzzard Last Week, for Crying Out Loud, and I Won’t Stand for It

Seattle Needs Every Indie Hippieshit Bookstore-Slash-Community Space We Can Hang Onto. Most of All This One.