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This bookish history of Seattle includes essays, history and personal stories from such literary luminaries as Frances McCue, Tom Robbins, Garth Stein, Rebecca Brown, Jonathan Evison, Tree Swenson, Jim Lynch, and Sonora Jha among many others. Timed with Seattle’s bid to become the second US city to receive the UNESCO designation as a City of Literature, this deeply textured anthology pays homage to the literary riches of Seattle. Strongly grounded in place, funny, moving, and illuminating, it lends itself both to a close reading and to casual browsing, as it tells the story of books, reading, writing, and publishing in one of the nation's most literary cities.
Seattle City of Literature: Reflections from a Community of WritersFrom Sasquatch Books- Amazon Sales Rank: #914104 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-29
- Released on: 2015-09-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.76" h x .91" w x 5.75" l, .81 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 288 pages
Review "All of the pieces are short and conversational, resulting in a figurative cocktail party full of Seattle writers eager to contribute to the clamor."—Seattle magazine "This anthology pays homage to the literary history of Seattle through stories about reading, writing, and publishing from some of the city's renowned literary voices."— Alaska Beyond
About the Author Editor Ryan Boudinot is the author of the novel Blueprints of the Afterlife, a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award, and the story collection The Littlest Hitler, a Publishers Weekly Book of the Year.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Reading this anthology is like eavesdropping in a Seattle coffee shop By Connie This anthology of mostly short essays by writers who live in or are from the Seattle area shows a plethora of writers, writing instructors, authors, booksellers, publishers talking about their unique experience in the city that involves in some form the written form. Most of the people in this book are new to me, although many mention authors from the area, but only one, Sherman Alexie, a well-known author of Native American literature is one I am familiar with.Reading this short book feels like an eavesdropping of a busy coffee shop, where java drinkers talk about every topic imaginable and the only thing they all have in common is that they are all in the same coffee shop at the same time. Some essays are humorous, some are touching, some are short discussions about regional writers. One writer reminisces about meeting Robin Williams in a bookstore and having a brief conversation about comics. In another essay about a writing workshop instructor, the writer recalls his war veteran students who were overcoming PTSD after Vietnam, and then comparing veterans he had who had served in Iraq and Afghanistan several decades later. Other essays talk about the struggle of young writers trying to get published.There are many references to local landmarks like Pioneer Square, or university buildings on the University of Washington campus, so this anthology may best be recommended for people who studied at UW, lived in Seattle, or who have a profound love for the region.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. The sometimes sad city by the sound. By Meg Sumner I loved this but it was completely different from what I expected. At first I thought it'd be an ode to Seattle landscape and history in terms of the Puget Sound, the mysterious feet on the shore, and Pearl Jam. Then I thought maybe it would be random portions of famous Seattle writers or poets, anthology style.But no, and for the better. Instead this is a collection of reflections on Seattle's literature, of which scenery and Pearl Jam play a secondary position to tremendously talented writers. Writers who are moody, upbeat, borderline psychotic, and/or very good liars. This is sort of an "end of the series" episode with all the highlights of what makes Seattle's writers significant.Bars and bookstores, Pioneer Square and on the street, writing takes so many forms as to defy genre as does this book. Parts make you laugh (Jonathan Evison's bad poetry bar) and other parts sting a little, as when a beloved bookstore is converted into something more profitable.Paul Constant and Mary Ann Gwinn are featured as the last lifeboat survivors in a world where books and especially book reviewing are deemed unnecessary and not worth the print space.My favorite city is complicated. It has great beauty and talent yet still suffers from the economy of fashion: what's in now may be lost tomorrow. Books are not the necessity of once, before. Yet the fact Powell's remains and that Seattle is a fighter gives hope.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Interesting and well worth a read By OnceMore I lived in Metro Seattle for two years in the late 90's so I missed out on the evolving literary scenes that unfolded there during the 80's, the earlier parts of the 90's, and after the millennium, as recounted in many of the essays included in this anthology. Reading about them through the essays in this anthology, however, gives me a chance to time travel and get a sense of who inspired and / or mentored the writers who contributed to this anthology; where writers, poets, and book lovers tended to hang out; who stood out as memorable performers in poetry slams or book readings; and Seattle's growing presence as a city of literature.In addition to the sometimes interestingly quirky historical retrospectives, the essays recounting outreach projects that helped juvenile offenders and military veterans experience the cathartic powers of personal storytelling were quite satisfying reads as well.
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