Moira's Book Club will hold its online discussion of James Lee Burke's "The Neon Rain" at noon on Oct. 16.
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What’s there to do in Seattle this weekend? Happy hours, crime fiction, beer science and more
If you haven't already heard, "The Big Dark" is here, and it's not going to spare your weekend. Luckily, Seattle has an abundance of activities...
UW professor Joanna Russ, with Ursula K. Le Guin and others, brought feminist bent to science fiction
With the '60s came the rise of women science fiction writers like Kate Wilhelm, Ursula K. Le Guin, Suzette Hayden Elgin and Vonda McIntyre, but...
What the Pacific Northwest is reading: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ben Lerner and genre-defying novels
Ben Lerner and Ta-Nehisi Coates are both using the novel as a vehicle to discuss societal tensions and ideas of lineage, while challenging commonly-held assumptions...
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While slowly making her way through the extremely long list of crime-fiction authors recommended by readers last month, Seattle Times arts critic Moira Macdonald thought...
Is modern life making us miserable? ‘Civilized to Death’ author Christopher Ryan thinks so.
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It's a pub crawl, but with writers. Welcome to Lit Crawl Seattle 2019.
This year's Lit Crawl Seattle takes place Oct. 24, and will present 48 readings and other literary events, all of them featuring local writers, at...
Beer and books? We’re in! Our writers compete in Book Trivia at Optimism Brewing. | Art Outings
Welcome back to Art Outings, an occasional series in which Seattle Times writers try out local cultural happenings paired with drinks and food. This time,...