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Posted Sat, Nov 7, 8 a.m.
By Knute Berger
It's been a tough year for books and words, but one bright spot was the effort to bring back a Seattle book festival. Some saw the event as a great first effort, others as a fiasco.
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Posted Fri, Nov 6, 6 a.m.
By Ross Anderson
A former Seattle Times colleague wonders what happened to the libertarian provocateur who used to engage him at their adjoining office doors.
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Posted Thu, Nov 5, 6 a.m.
By Anthony B. Robinson
In an age of seemingly too much information and not enough thinking, an argument for eschewing our culture's relentless optimism and seeing things as they really are.
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Posted Fri, Oct 30, 6 a.m.
By Knute Berger
As our Charter Membership Drive continues, a few words from a Crosscut Public Media contributor
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Posted Sun, Oct 18, noon
By Knute Berger
Seattle's iconic Pioneer Square bookstore might move. It could also close. Tough times bring tough choices for the bookseller, and the neighborhood it has helped to revive.
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Posted Fri, Oct 16, 6 a.m.
By Joann Byrd
The author of a new book on Oregon's little-remembered disaster finds some enduring truths while researching the tragedy.
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Posted Thu, Oct 15, 6 a.m.
By Judy Lightfoot
Brookings' Bruce Katz argues in a UW talk that this "metro" can help lead the U.S. toward a new, more prosperous economy.
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Posted Thu, Oct 8, 6 a.m.
By Chuck Wolfe
A city that defines urban decline was once like Seattle, built on a dominant transportation industry. Can it become a laboratory for urban reinvention?
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Posted Fri, Oct 2, 6 a.m.
By Daniel Jack Chasan
Newfoundland went centuries believing it could never exhaust its abundance of cod. Until it did. A reflection from the waters of Vashon Island and Mistaken Point.
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Posted Fri, Oct 2, 6 a.m.
By Knute Berger
The patron saint of livable, walkable cities is being invoked on both sides of the debate over Seattle's Viaduct solution. Would Jacobs be a tunnel supporter, or a surface option fan?
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Posted Thu, Oct 1, 6 a.m.
By Anthony B. Robinson
King County Executive Kurt Triplett, not worrying about getting elected, is "giving the work back" by telling hard truths. Ouch! We needed that.
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Posted Fri, Sep 25, 6 a.m.
By Matt Fikse
The popular movie about Julia Child inspires our writer — not to cook with lots of butter, but to write longhand, and then use a typewriter and carbon paper. Tasty lessons result.
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Posted Wed, Sep 9, 9:24 p.m.
By Knute Berger
An art exhibit in Port Angeles displays creative responses to the Cascadia dream.
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Posted Thu, Sep 3, 6 a.m.
By Knute Berger
A new book on family-owned retailers provides a lens on the future of Seattle's neighborhood development. It's not just a matter of retail style; it's about values.
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Posted Thu, Aug 20, 6 a.m.
By Knute Berger
This month there's a chance to revisit the 1969 season in Seattle's Sicks Stadium. That Summer at Sicks was a major league wonder that was both legendary and never to be repeated.
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Posted Fri, Aug 14, 6 a.m.
By Ted Van Dyk
Bush grew weary of Cheney and his bad advice, as often happens with Presidents and their running mates. The code is to suffer in silence, but when did Cheney ever think he needed to obey custom?
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Posted Fri, Jul 10, 6 a.m.
By Floyd McKay
The former reporter and Olympia resident sets his books in small towns in Western Washington, creating indelible characters with rare abilities to see hidden things
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Posted Fri, Jun 19, 6 a.m.
By Anthony B. Robinson
It's time we rediscovered John Calvin, the seminal thinker from whom so much American history and religion flows. A good place to start is with novelist Marilynne Robinson, a modern Calvinist.
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Posted Wed, Jun 3, 6 a.m.
By Knute Berger
A Puget Sound beachcomber and U.W. oceanographer has expanded our understanding of the oceans by studying driftwood and rubber duckies. Here's an unbeatable "beach read" for the summer.
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Posted Tue, May 19, 6 a.m.
By Kent Kammerer
Susan Hildreth, filling the big shoes of Deborah Jacobs, has a good grasp of the complex political environment she's entering. Libraries now have many new missions and lots of bosses.
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Posted Wed, Oct 28, 3:38 p.m.
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Ted Van Dyk
News at the company isn't good, and that's for those "lucky" enough to still be there
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Posted Fri, Oct 23, 6 a.m.
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Feliks Banel
A new Seattle book festival launches this weekend in Columbia City, amid bad news for Elliott Bay Books and word of a new fest planned for next year.
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Posted Sat, Sep 26, noon
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Knute Berger
Tom Tomorrow's timely take on city politics is in a new book for kids
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Posted Mon, Sep 21, 3 p.m.
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Judy Lightfoot
With no political agenda, Po Bronson co-authored a new bestseller about how children learn. But NurtureShock quickly became caught up in a Rush Limbaugh screed about race and popular culture.
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Posted Wed, Aug 26, 3:34 p.m.
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Feliks Banel
When the Seattle Library closes for a week next Monday, down goes the valuable website as well. Not smart.
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Posted Sat, Jul 25, noon
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Ted Van Dyk
In praise of a discovery, a French novel written by an American about Germany
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Posted Sat, Jul 18, 9:11 a.m.
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Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett
When Amazon whisked away Orwell's 1984, something made this writer want to hang onto those things with paper pages and covers
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Posted Wed, Jul 15, 9:25 p.m.
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Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett
Among the pleasures of reading books is the way they can become social objects, conversational ice-breakers
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Posted Sun, Jun 7, 8:03 p.m.
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Knute Berger
It's one thing to doubt the existence of God, but this?
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Posted Sat, Jun 6, 10:45 a.m.
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Paul Manning
The wilderness champion tried to find a middle course between pristine preservation and getting more boots (and votes) on trails.
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