Matt Ruff
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20 Essential Seattle Books, Part 5 – Tales of the City
Arriving at our fifth and final post suggesting twenty essential Seattle books, after posts highlighting history, race, place, and Northwest classics, we finish with a handful of novels evocative of our city and its culture. There are several good mystery series set in Seattle, but when a fictional detective has been on our rain-soaked streets for three decades his casebook offers real perspective.… Continue reading
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Science Fiction Fridays: It’s the end of the world as we know it…
And I feel pretty freaked out! Here are three mid-apocalypse books that will make you as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chair. Continue reading
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Nightstand Reading: Matt Ruff reads the gamut, from War to Pie.
Editor’s Note: Matt Ruff will be reading from his 2008 PNBA Book Award-winning book Bad Monkeys, freshly released in paperback, at the Ballard Branch Library this Thursday, August 21at 6:30 p.m, in conjunction with Secret Garden Books. (Matt will also be reading at Queen Anne books on Tuesday, and coming up in October he will be reading from a new work at the Richard Hugo House). If… Continue reading