This month Seattlest Book Club is reading Seattle-born and -raised Pauls Toutonghi's debut novel Red Weather, just out in paperback from Random House. You'll get a discount if you buy it at Bailey-Coy or Santoro's. more ›

Every summer, Seattlest caves in and buys a deeply discounted Entertainment Book full of coupons valid for the rest of the year. We throw it in the back of the car and tell ourselves that if we redeem just one coupon for a meal, we’ll recoup our Alexander Hamilton. more ›

Megan Kelso's latest graphic short story collection The Squirrel Mother Stories was a pleasant surprise to Seattlest. Far too many semiautobiographical graphic stories fail to connect with their audience, adopting an artistic style incongruent with the subject or navel-gazing to a degree that renders the story largely masturbatory. Kelso avoids those trappings and creates a collection that resonates with the audience on an undefinable level, plucking emotional strings through simple artwork and in most cases a minimal amount of text. more ›