Results tagged “publishing”

, but given Grove's and Rosset's history, it's bound to cover plenty of interesting stuff.

LET'S TALK ABOUT CHILDREN WHO BREED: Spring Awakening is a musical about teens (really young teens) who have sex. Sex is always a controversial topic, and according to a press release, Roosevelt High School is hosting a community conversation about the musical and its themes for interested locals. A diverse group of people are participating in the discussion, including members of the theatre community and students and teachers from Seattle schools. Two cast members from Spring Awakening will also be on hand to lend their perspective.

The trio of authors Akashic's showcasing includes the novelists Felicia Luna Lemus and Joe Meno, neither of whom we've read and therefore can't comment on. But trust us--it's worth going for Chris Abani alone. An exiled Nigerian playwright and novelist, Abani was such a thorn in the military regime's side that they even tried to assassinate him in London (prompting his move to the US, where he currently teaches at UCLA).

That's the final installation of Monkey's Hate You which was recently axed from the Stranger.

We asked our fellow Seattlests: What's the last good book you read? And what's coming up on your summer reading list?

Once upon a time you could write a book on the typewriter in your attic, bundle the pages together with some butcher paper and twine and schlep it to New York to give to your publisher and then forget about the whole thing until it was time to blow the dust off the keys for the next go round. Or so we imagine it. Then came the critics. And then the book tours. Then Amazon.com and the damned reader reviews. Then the blogs. Now you gotta respond to all that shit. Any critique that goes unanswered, regardless of how obscure the publication or how ridiculous the charge, is out there for the world to see. A criticism of an author's work, floating around out there on the internets somewhere, is indistinguishable from a hard fact until the power of Google puts it in front of the author himself and he responds.

C'mon, Seattle Times. You get a press release related to the McMenamins affair in Kenmore from some mysterious source claiming that the whole deal is off and you turn around and announce it to the world without so much as a phone call to McMenamins? When Seattlest gets a release in the mail detailing the city's plan to dye the sky green we immediately start ranting about how blue skies were good enough for us back in the day, but we expect a little more snooping around from the pros.

Seattle will continue to have two daily newspapers, at least for the immediate future. It sounds like both papers were unwilling to leave things entirely in the hands of the arbitrator who was set to deliver a binding verdict on the dispute: They settled with each other and the terms include the Times buying the P-I out of JOA stipulation that the smaller paper would continue to receive revenue in the event that that paper ceased publishing.

LESS IS MORE: In Trance of Scarcity: Stop Holding Your Breath and Start Living Your Life, Victoria Castle asks why we feel that nothing is ever enough. Castle's book shows us how to escape this malaise and become more relaxed and alive. Hopefully it doesn't involve crisscrossing the U.S. on a book tour.

Sunday. Usually, a quiet, contemplative day in the Blogosphere. But not here in the Ist-a-Verse. Nonono! Just look below and see all of the wild and crazy stuff our staffs are up to.

One of Seattlest's favorite Christmas presents this year: Clark Humphrey's Vanishing Seattle, a new entry in Arcadia Publishing's Images of America series by retro-Seattle authority Clark Humphrey. We're a Seattle transplant, ourselves, but we've been interested in Seattle history since we decided we wanted to stay here (about a week after we arrived, as we recall), and we quickly noticed that Humphrey was a consistent, articulate voice advocating for that history.

The announcement on Dec. 29 that San Diego-based Advanced Marketing Services is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection could have big effects for Seattle's tiny book publishing world.

Apparently, near-genius Seattlest Seth keeps writing stuff, and people keep publishing it. Granted, you hear a lot from him here at Seattlest, but as you all know our standards aren't spectacularly high. It's good to see others finally figuring out what we've known all along (we're not worthy).

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-20-year-old Mariner Adam Jones makes his major league debut at about 4:07 tonight, batting ninth and playing centerfield.

Ah, oral history. A genre built to tell the stories of SNL, porn films, and whatever piqued Studs Terkel's curiosity this week.

Back in our freelance days, Seattlest was happy to get 50 cents a word. So imagine the triple cherries that flashed before our eyes when we learned that down in PDX you can get 250 writers for three measly bucks!

The P-I shows what a sensible newspaper operation can do in the wake of a tragedy today by publishing a number of pieces that don't directly admonish the Seattle Times (because fancy dailys don't play like that), but could be seen as a reaction to yesterday's idiocy in the Times. One is headlined "No rave crackdown coming," and contains passages like the following:

The names of all of the victims of Saturday morning's shootings are still not being reported in the press. Christopher Williamson, Jason Travers and Jeremy Martin (pictured above) have been widely reported. It can be inferred from this Seattle Times article that Suzanne Thorne, 15, is also dead. Two victims, then, are still unknown and no names have been released by the police as of this morning.

That guy that's usually tapping at his laptop and gazing off into the middle distance at the cafe has suddenly disappeared. He's at home furiously typing his tell-all memoir: "The world knew me as a female refugee from the Phillipines who escaped a life of political oppression, violence, prostitution and drugs but now I must reveal myself as a midwestern white boy who lied about it all to sell a few books. The ironic thing is, none of the fake pain I was writing about can compare to the actual devastation of living with this lie for the past ten years."

According to this USA Today story (hat tip to the Spurge), the Seattle Post-Intelligencer will attempt to reach a younger audience next year by publishing the Lindsay Cibos and Jared Hodges manga Peach Fuzz in their Sunday comics section starting early January. The comic in question (sample here) about a delusional nine year old girl and her pet ferret, was first published earlier this year by Tokyopop after the artists submitted the work to that company's Rising Stars of Manga competition.

Electronic voting machines. Depending on what side of the political fence wall you sit you think that they're either responsible for election frauds in Florida and Ohio and handed GW the presidency illigitamately, or you think that their use in King county would allow us to have a fair election for once. To obliterate any illusions of objectivity here, Seattlest thinks they're the devil and that not only are Diebold devices responsible for our current president, but they also are more than likely the source of the faulty intelligence that lead us into war AND we've been tracking several websites that are of the opinion that one rogue Diebold machine spontaneously developed conciousness and released Valerie Plame's name to the media.

A local jackass who will remain nameless pranked his co-workers at a local publishing corporation last Friday in a manner that totally failed to eclipse another miserable anniversary much less the miserable news of more recent misery. Said prank consisted of the unsolicited gift of individually wrapped chocolate treats, which, unbeknownst to the jackass' co-workers/victims, had actually been scavenged from a dumpster the night before. The jackass in question had attended one dumpster-diving tour of Seattle hosted by local bicycle enthusiast group Point 83. After the defiled treats had been ingested by the aforementioned co-workers, the prankster then released an email to his victims bearing a link to a page detailing photographic evidence of the nasty and disgusting source of the aforementioned chocolate.

Seattle resident Michael Montoure pursues a few of the more solitary activities that mankind has been able to dream up during our time on Earth: writing, web development. Maybe he started the blog community site Seablogs to counter that. We checked in with him recently in an attempt to figure out just what motivates a man to put in the hours necessary to create a directory this extensive.

It looks like Bellingham might be experiencing the dark side of sex offender registration. Published names, addresses and descriptions of their crimes makes these ex-cons targets for any would-be Batmen out there. Three such offenders were paid a visit over the weekend by what appears to be a FauxBI agent who allegedly alerted them that one of the men was listed on a web site hit-list before killing two of the roommates. The third roommate left for work before the killings and has provided a description to the police.

The scofflaw gun-fetishists behind local funny book factory Fantagraphics Books pushed the avant-garde comics publishing envelope even further on Sunday, August 14th when they blew up a lawn mower (photo credit Eric Reynolds) in the Sultan river basin during their semi-annual summer shoot-out event, a tradition that goes back more than a decade and has even included the blowing up of cars with dynamite in years past, not to mention the senseless shooting of a perfectly functional fire extinguisher.

Buy a book & give a warm welcome to the latest incarnation of Dave Eggers’s non-profit writing/tutoring organization, 826 Seattle.

The wildly popular and absolutely hilarious online comic Penny Arcade is penned in Seattle; Fremont and Kirkland, last we heard. It's mostly about video games so if you play video games religiously there's a good chance you follow the strip religiously. If you follow the strip religiously than you've already heard that the creators are coming out on the bright side of a long legal tunnel involving their books and their rights to publish books right now. That's great news, right? Because these guys are really funny and we'd love to see them making some noise offline with the books they have on the way.