Anthology

Editor: Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker Publication date: January 2016 Press: Frye Art Museum Format: Hardcover Language: English Buy Synopsis This catalogue is published by the Frye Art Museum as an archive of the exhibition Genius / 21 Century / Seattle (September 26, 2015- January 10, 2016). An unprecedented, large-scale celebration of exceptional multidisciplinary and collaborative artistic practice in Seattle in the twenty-first century, the exhibition featured over sixty-five visual artists, filmmakers, writers, theater artists, composers, musicians, choreographers, dancers, and arts organizations. The catalog documents the installations, sculptural, and filmic works featured in the exhibition, and contains dynamic photographs of the more than forty events that took place over the course of the exhibition—including live music, dance, and theater performances; literary readings; video screenings; public forums; and rehearsals. Essays by Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker and Erika Dalya Massaquoi, co-curators of the exhibition, reveal the multitude of perspectives shaping artistic practice in Seattle and the global community, while authors Courtney Sheehan and Jennifer Zeyl provide an in-depth view into the city’s film and theater communities. The artists invited to participate in the exhibition are all recipients of Seattle alternative weekly newspaper The Stranger’s Genius Award, selected by leading arts writers and the local artistic community. This catalog collects each original article published by The Stranger on the occasion of the artist receiving the Genius Award. The catalog Genius / 21 Century / Seattle brings deeper insight to the themes explored by the exhibition and provides a lasting record of this experimental project. ...

Editor: Phoebe Boche Publication date: November 2016 Press: Raven Chronicles Press Format: Paperback Language: English Buy Synopsis The work that Jack Straw Cultural Center did and does with community groups like the Seattle World School; their work with arts and heritage organizations; their commitment to educational programs for youth and adults of all ages: this is why Raven was committed to publishing this special edition of the Raven Chronicles Journal. Vol. 23 is a departure of sorts: The theme is the twentieth year of the Jack Straw Writers Program, and we did not have an open submissions period for the first time in Raven’s history. Instead, Jack Straw curators and staff chose two writers from each year of the program: 1997-2016. ...

Editors: Connor Guy and Alex Davis-Lawrence Publication date: December 2015 Press: Moss Lit Press Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 978-0-996379-0-0 Buy Synopsis The first Moss Lit anthology, Moss: Volume One (Issues 1-3), offered writing from Rebecca Brown, Matt Briggs, Corinne Manning, Charles Finn, Janie Miller, Miriam Cook, Steven Moore, Jenn Blair, Eric Severn, Clayton McCann, Donald J. Mitchell, and Christine Texeira, interviews with Rebecca Brown, Peter Mountford, T.V. Reed, and Ryan Boudinot, and a republished piece of early Northwest fiction by Robert Cantwell. ...

Editors: by Peter Donahue and John Trombold Publication date: March 2004 Press: University of Washington Press Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0295983957 Buy Synopsis Seattle, with its spectacular natural beauty and rough frontier history, has inspired writers from its earliest days. This anthology spans seven decades and includes fiction, memoirs, histories, and journalism that define the city or use it as a setting, imparting the flavor of the city through a literary prism. ...

Editors: Novella Carpenter, Paula Gilovich, and Rachel Kessler Publication date: November 2002 Press: 10th Avenue East Publishing Format: Paperback Language: English Long Review Pragmatic Literature, The Rendezvous Reader Announces the Current Northwest Trend: Poetic Nonfiction in The Stranger by Colin Booey, 11/28/02 When my father buys a book, he immediately writes in it: his name, the date, and the city where the book was purchased. The intimacy of this gesture is meant to inscribe his presence onto the blankness of the book, to claim it as his own. But if my father were to buy The Rendezvous Reader, he would hesitate before penning his name in it-hesitate or even possibly abandon the gesture, because the book would present to him not an impersonal text but one whose authors were intimately and forcefully tied to the book and its world: the Pacific Northwest. With this book, adding one’s name to the list of other names would be much like adding graffiti to a bathroom wall. ...

Editor: Ryan Boudinot Publication date: September 2015 Press: Sasquatch Books Format: Hardback Language: English ISBN: 1570619867 Buy Synopsis This bookish history of Seattle includes essays, history and personal stories from such literary luminaries as Frances McCue, Tom Robbins, Garth Stein, Rebecca Brown, Jonathan Evison, Tree Swenson, Jim Lynch, and Sonora Jha among many others. Timed with Seattle’s bid to become the second US city to receive the UNESCO designation as a City of Literature, this deeply textured anthology pays homage to the literary riches of Seattle. Strongly grounded in place, funny, moving, and illuminating, it lends itself both to a close reading and to casual browsing, as it tells the story of books, reading, writing, and publishing in one of the nation’s most literary cities.

Author/Editor: Ava Chin Publication date: June 2002 Press: McGraw-Hill Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0071391061 Buy Synopsis An anthology of intimate personal accounts by hip young journalists and writers in their 20s and 30s, Split will be a source of insight, comfort, and healing for all those who were children of divorce. High-profile Gen X writers who have contributed to this volume include Paula Gilovich, Jill Priluck, Ayana Byrd, Matt Briggs, and Jen Robinson. Like a support group between the covers of a book, this collection of 15 stories articulates some of the most difficult emotional aspects of growing up in a broken home, while providing hope for the future. ...