Stories for Nov. 18, 2007

The darkening of the Northwest imagination

Seattle may be the home of Amazon, a company about to try to reinvent the book with a new electronic version called The Kindle, but it's also a place with a traditional bookish culture. That was on display last Friday, at an event in the University of Washington's Suzzallo Library honoring the new winner of the Maxine Cushing Gray Award, David Laskin. Very civilized it was, tippling hot cocoa, rubbing elbows with Ivan Doig, and hearing an elegant paper read by Laskin, recounting how he found his calling as a writer . The room abounded with bibliophiles wearing tweed.

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