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Ira Glass Has the Flu

The host of This American Life can’t talk right now.

07/20/2010 Edited by Laura Dannen

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Main Man

Eat your veggies—and pay no attention to the man behind the middle finger.

06/15/2010 By Jessica Voelker

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The President’s Analyst

David Remnick talks about Muhammed Ali and Obama, the Clintons and the Tea Baggers, how he managed to write The Bridge, his acclaimed new biography of Barack Obama, while editing The New Yorker, and how he can hear every writer’s voice except his own.

05/21/2010 By Compiled by Eric Scigliano

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Me, Myself, and Finneyfrock

05/18/2010 By Tiffany Wan

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All the President’s Been

New Yorker editor David Remnick bridges the gaps in Obama’s life story.

05/14/2010 By Eric Scigliano

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Brother, Can You Spare a Joke?

Garrison Keillor, during a live broadcast at the Paramount Theatre of his public radio program A Prairie Home Companion, April 3, 2010.

04/20/2010

Passing Through

Saffron Revolutionary

An exiled monk sips tea and looks toward better times in Burma.

03/18/2010 By Eric Scigliano

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Checked Out

Seattle Public Library closed for a week this summer. Here’s why you should give a shhhh.

10/19/2009

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The Not-So-Final Frontier

A Seattleite wrote the Star Trek backstory. Will the new movie ruin her universe?

04/23/2009

True Crime

Last Comic Landing

Did D. B. Cooper take his cue from an obscure French comic book?

04/23/2009

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Reading Music

Author Michael Cunningham shares the melody of The Hours and his other novels.

03/19/2009 By Steve Wiecking

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The Big Boom Theory

A new book unearths the roots of Northwest rock.

03/18/2009 By Steve Wiecking

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Five Questions for Jack Hamann

02/23/2009 By Christopher Werner

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Tom Robbins Gets the Blues

…at the imminent demise of the morning P-I.

02/11/2009 By Eric Scigliano

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Poet of the Port Town

Just before ”Howl” made him famous, Allen Ginsberg savored old Seattle’s seaport rot.

01/06/2009 By Ryan Boudinot

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An Open Letter to Minneapolis

Seattle named second most literate city. But don’t get too comfortable, No. 1.

01/04/2009

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Regarding Tess

When Tess Gallagher, the widow of acclaimed Northwest writer Raymond Carver, planned to publish early drafts of her late husband’s beloved short stories, the outcry from the New York publishing establishment was loud and rancorous.

01/03/2009 By Claire Dederer

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Biblio File

Now that you’re older and wiser, hitting the books is actually fun.

12/18/2008 By Ben Schock

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A Man of Air and Shadows

Michael Gruber, Seattle’s secret best-selling novelist, seemed to be living the writer’s dream. And then he tried to put his name on the books he wrote, and everything changed. The dark tales he’d carried inside for three decades started to come out....

08/01/2007 By Jim Gullo