In the late 1970s and very early 1980s, Capitol Hill was one of the few neighborhoods in the country where LGBTQ+ people could largely live out of the closet. To the young people moving to Seattle from more regressive parts of the country, the area around Broadway — with its openly queer arts organizations and […]
Read More Bailey/Coy’s Legacy: Why We Need LGBTQ+ Literary SpacesBookish people, the stereotype goes, are introverts who prefer to stay home. So you’d think the recent social distancing measures would be a bibliophile’s dream: An excuse to read alone for weeks on end. That’s not the case for Queen Anne Book Company bookseller Tegan Tigani, who has been working from home since March 25. During a […]
Read More How Seattle book workers have adapted to coronavirus shutdownsOver at the Seattle Review of Books, co-founder Martin McClellan and I just announced that the site is going on indefinite hiatus. This was by no means an easy decision. I’m carrying a deep sense of sadness piled on top of all this other coronavirus weirdness, and I feel in many ways even more unrooted […]
Read More Why the Seattle Review of Books Is Going on Hiatus, and What’s Next for MeIt’s a tiny storefront — just 500 square feet — but Wallingford bookstore Open Books has always been an especially inviting space. Its owner, Billie Swift, has watched people fall in love with the shop again and again. “We are across the street from a physical therapy center,” Swift explains, and patients who are early […]
Read More Closed by coronavirus, this Wallingford poetry bookstore found a way to open online