I have two new pieces up at the Seattle Times:
First is an interview with the novelist Ed Park about his fascinating new memoir, Three Tenses, which he wrote a decade before his first published book and which he re-typed by hand during the pandemic. Park is such an honest and intelligent interviewee that our conversation—about the passage of time, the rediscovery of lost work, and the span of a writer’s career—was bracing the whole way through.
And second is a profile of a bookstore up in Edison, just north of Mount Vernon. It’s called Book Shucker, and it’s one of the prettiest new bookstores I’ve seen in a long time. Based out of a former one-room schoolhouse (where Edward R. Murrow went to school and played basketball,) it’s intended to be a gathering space for the Edison community. I can’t recommend this store enough if you happen to be on your way north on I5 to Vancouver or Bellingham.