A Letter from Ruth
July 9, 2020
Dear friends, When Carol Anderson was with us just over two weeks ago, she talked about how the work of racial equity and justice is like a symphony that needs all the various players to work. She s...
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SAL’s Guide to Bookstore Re-Openings
July 9, 2020
Although many wonderful Seattle-area bookstores have online offerings and curbside pick-ups during this time, there’s something about roaming the shelves that we just miss. If you’ve been ...
2020 Summer Book Bingo: Two Books by the Same Author
July 7, 2020
With summer here, we’re busy playing 2020 Summer Book Bingo, our free summer reading program with The Seattle Public Library! Download your card here. Engage with others and their own reading ...
“To the Moon” by Stella Hoffman Logan
July 2, 2020
We’re pleased to share a poem from one of our Writers in the Schools students to celebrate the “Buck Moon” or “Thunder Moon” that will accompany the Lunar Eclipse on the ...
2020 Summer Book Bingo: In Translation
July 1, 2020
Sunshine is here and so is 2020 Summer Book Bingo, our free summer reading program with The Seattle Public Library! Download your card here. Get going on your summer reading now and aim for a bingo ...
2020 Summer Book Bingo: Recommended by an Independent Bookstore—Part Two
June 29, 2020
It’s officially summer, and 2020 Summer Book Bingo, our free summer reading program with The Seattle Public Library, is underway! Download your card here. Get going on your summer reading now ...
“To Who I Think: I Want These Things to Stop,” by Ebenezer Tewolde
June 26, 2020
Although we couldn’t share a reading from our Writers in the Schools student to open our 2019/20 Literary Arts Series event with Carol Anderson, we’re pleased to be able to share the poem...
Introductions: Carol Anderson
June 25, 2020
By Ruth Dickey, SAL Executive Director Every summer, the SAL staff picks an author from the coming season and reads one book all together. Last summer, the book we read together was Carol Anderson’s...
Introductions: Min Jin Lee
June 24, 2020
By Ruth Dickey, SAL Executive Director I read most of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko on a plane, back when we flew on planes and had the sensation of the whole world condensed to our single seat, the luxury...
“Hyphenated Identity Crisis,” by Bitaniya Giday
June 23, 2020
Hyphenated Identity Crisis And the American war machine takes on the motherland And I finally am no longer A hyphenated identity crisis See the words Ethiopian-American Imply me a patriot for t...