If you’re into feeling even worse about yourself after a summer-y weekend of too many BBQs, beers and smokes—just swing by Elliott Bay Book Co. where triathlete and bicycle marathon veteran Amy Snyder will be reading from her book, Hell on Two Wheels. She’s telling the story of those wild folks who travel over 3,000 miles across the country on a bicycle. Oh, and they do it in less than twelve days. Needless to say, Snyder encountered some crazy stories and circumstances as she followed the participants in the 2009 Race Across America—she infiltrated their lives before, during, and after the competitions…and came up with some intriguing stuff. more ›

The Hugo House is hosting their third installment of the popular Cheap Wine and Poetry spin-off event, Cheap Beer and Prose, tonight at 7 p.m. Sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon, there will be plenty of cheap beer to go around for only a buck--and really, where else in town can you get a $1 PBR along with a night of great readings from some of Seattle's favorite authors? more ›

PHOTOGRAPHY: The Jonas Bendiksen exhibit at the Photographic Center Northwest is worth visiting on the strength of the image above alone. The title of his book Satellites refers both to the space junk that occasionally comes crashing to Earth as well as to the former Soviet republics in which he shot these pictures. more ›

LOCAL AUTHOR, LOCAL AUTHOR: Clear Cut Press presents two of its novelists: Matt Briggs' Shoot The Buffalo is about a boy growing up in Snoqualmie during the '70s. Stacey Levine's Frances Johnson, set in a small town in Florida, details the random choices made by the eponymous Ms. Johnson. more ›

The Hugo House is running an inquiry into that most terrible and divisive of subjects: childhood. more ›