What SAL’s Reading: Best of 2016
December 16, 2016
One thing about 2017 is certain: the literature will be stunning.
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If You Like… You’ll Love: Discover New Authors
December 8, 2016
We’re just reminding you now: February is a hard month. By February, you’re already slipping with your New Year’s resolutions to get out there and see more art, to be part of more ...
Scream Out the Bad: An Evening with Marina Abramović
December 7, 2016
By Amelia Peacock, SAL’s Community Engagement Coordinator “It’s about to get really loud.” Those six simple words from the Town Hall House Manager proved an oddly poignant introduction to ...
Writing Against: On Rachel Zucker’s “Poetics of Wrongness”
November 29, 2016
By Rachel Edelman Three weeks ago, on Tuesday, November 8th, I left a reading in South Lake Union and walked west on Harrison. I attempted, unsuccessfully, not to look at the U.S. maps glowing so red...
WITS Voices: Holding 67 Hearts
November 23, 2016
By Laura Gamache, WITS Writer-in-Residence On my ninth day with fourth graders at Broadview-Thomson, I asked the kids to take out their hearts, and hand them in to me. I had drawn each heart on red co...
Indies First: SAL Instagram Takeover
November 22, 2016
Book nerds, it’s time to use your powers for good! On Small Business Saturday, November 26, Indies First will be unfolding at an independent bookstore near you. This national campaign to sup...
Three Questions: Travel Writer Kim Brown Seely
November 18, 2016
Perhaps this Thanksgiving weekend you’ll be joining the tens of millions of Americans on the road, or—in light of the recent election—hiding at home from certain relatives, eyes blurry as ...
Introductions: Nick Offerman
November 16, 2016
On October 28 at Benaroya Hall, Nick Offerman – star of NBC’s Parks and Recreation and America’s premier evangelist for making things – had us in stitches over his new book ab...
“Unsolicited Advice to People Who are Going through the Same Thing” by Lovely Pierre
November 14, 2016
Unsolicited Advice to People Who are Going through the Same Thing, After Jeanann Verlee When your best friend forces you to do things, Say, “No.” When you best friend starts bullying you, Do not ...
What SAL’s Reading: Fall Edition
November 10, 2016
Ruth Dickey, Executive Director: “I am currently reading Walk Through Walls by Marina Abramović, which has stunned and moved me, and Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón. I was so captivated by A...