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Follow Your Bliss (Really? Do I Have To?)

Posted Sat, Nov 21, 6 a.m.

By Anthony B. Robinson

On the rare occasion of an adult daughter asking her father for advice, a short reflection on the meaning of work.

Saying Yes

Posted Thu, Nov 19, 6 a.m.

By Judy Lightfoot

The author plays the Doubting and Believing games as she ponders an oddball kind of volunteering.

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Flying the flannel flag

Posted Tue, Nov 17, 6 a.m.

By Travis Hay

Concert Review: With a new book on grunge and a memorable show at Neumos, Seattle's signature sound rocks on.

Resurrecting Seattle's book festival

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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Michelle Malkin’s journey from ideas to tribes

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.

Reality bites

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.

Why I support Crosscut

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

New chapter for Elliott Bay?

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.

Calamity: Timeless lessons from the 1903 Heppner Flood

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.

Seattle, toward a 'MetroNation'

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.

Learning from Detroit, the City of Ruin

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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Bracing lessons for Northwest fisheries ... from the Northeast

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.

What would Jane Jacobs do about the Viaduct?

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?

The pinch of reality is producing a new kind of leadership

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.

Braised words: 'Julie & Julia' inspires a retro writing experiment

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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Utopia: Are we there yet?

Posted Wed, Sep 9, 9:24 p.m.

By Knute Berger

An art exhibit in Port Angeles displays creative responses to the Cascadia dream.

The enduring wisdom of Mom & Pop

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.

Baseball's Brigadoon: the Seattle Pilots

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.

Dick Cheney: Bush critic

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?

Jim Lynch: the next hot Northwest novelist

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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Other media

O cruel! Philip Roth is shortlisted for the bad sex writing award There's some stiff competition this year for the dubious distinction of writing badly and exploitively about sex.

THE GUARDIAN (U.K.)

Maureen Dowd looks for her inner Sarah Palin The columnist tries to measure up to Palin's definition of American, and doesn't come off well.

NEW YORK TIMES

Meet book publishing's worst nightmare It's sci-fi author Cory Doctorow, who knows as much as anyone about copyright law and is doing his best to undermine traditional book selling.

GLOBE AND MAIL

Palin's book publicity campaign a winner Calculated leaks to friendly press, schedule published on Facebook, Twitter feed, touring rock band, Oprah appearance. Did we forget anything?

ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS

Steven Pinker: How reliable is Malcolm Gladwell? Reliably interesting, but be warned, says the reviewer, calling Gladwell "a minor genius who unwittingly demonstrates the hazards of statistical reasoning and who occasionally blunders into spectacular failures."

NEW YORK TIMES

Blog posts

Tonight at MOHAI: 'Warship Under Sail'

Posted Thu, Nov 19, 6 a.m.

by Feliks Banel

Author Lorraine McConaghy discusses her book chronicling a seamy Seattle in the 1850s.

From 1911, the Bogue Plan speaks

Posted Tue, Nov 10, 9:12 a.m.

by Chuck Wolfe

The nearly 100-year-old "city beautiful" plan for the city, never adopted, still holds a worthy reminder.

Survivor's guilt at Boeing

Posted Wed, Oct 28, 3:38 p.m.

by Ted Van Dyk

News at the company isn't good, and that's for those "lucky" enough to still be there

A tale of two bookfests

Posted Fri, Oct 23, 6 a.m.

by 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.

Playbook for our next mayor?

Posted Sat, Sep 26, noon

by Knute Berger

Tom Tomorrow's timely take on city politics is in a new book for kids

How a popular Seattle writer was labeled an anti-white racist

Posted Mon, Sep 21, 3 p.m.

by 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.