The Curtain Falls on a Joyful Life: Edie WhitsettMJ Sieber and Auston James raise a toast in Edie Whitsett's final set for SCT, "A Year with Frog and Toad." Photo by Chris Bennion. Seattle Children's Theatre and the entire Seattle arts community lost a treasure when Edie Whitsett passed away Thursday night after a long fight with... continue reading on Seattlest
The Unsaid Thought: Silence & Communication ReadingWriters love words. Quite a few also love the sound of their own voice. What, then, of the communicative possibilities in silence? On Thursday night, 22 local writers will gather at Capitol Hill's Sole Repair Shop to explore this very issue in a reading/performance inspired by the works of... continue reading on Seattlest
Jewish Short Stories Kick Off Town Hall's Literary SeasonLabor Day looms especially large in Seattle. Capping off a summer often too late in arriving and always too beautiful for words, Labor Day is the horizon line Seattleites are unable to see past. From the perspective of these last days of summer, there is no fall, which means... continue reading on Seattlest
Come to See a Screenwriter, but Listen to a Novelist: George R.R. Martin at Town HallWhenever the work of George R.R. Martin is mentioned, it is now in the context of the new HBO series Game of Thrones, based on Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire epic series and named for the first novel. And while scoring a TV series or movie is... continue reading on Seattlest
Seattle Author Boyd Morrison Makes Leap From Self-publishing to Big 6A little over two years ago, Seattle author Boyd Morrison had three completed manuscripts, a literary agent, and rejection letters from every major publisher in New York. Today he has a multi-book deal with Touchstone Publishing, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, and his second published novel, The Vault,... continue reading on Seattlest
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