More than a decade after Tin House released his second novel The Dismal Science, Seattle fiction fixture and 2012 Washington State Book Award winner Peter Mountford returns with the story collection Detonator, a darkly funny gaggle of ten works spanning his career. These tales appear in all sorts of highbrow landmarks – The Paris Review, …
Saturday, November 21st, 2015 from 3-5 pm Phinney Neighborhood Center (6532 Phinney Ave. N. Seattle, 98103) Think about holiday shopping. Imagine malls. Parking. Crowds. Now imagine a Saturday afternoon in November, walking up the deliciously worn wooden steps of the Phinney Neighborhood Center to find a boutique bookstore, created especially by local indie bookstore Secret …
Join the Seattle7Writers Saturday November 22 for a literary kick-off to the holidays like no other: the fifth annual Seattle7Writers Holiday BookFest! The line-up features 28 fantastic authors from the Pacific Northwest, including current NYT Bestseller Daniel James Brown, Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Schenkkan, 2014 Washington State Book Award Winners Suzanne Selfors, David Laskin, and …
From the awesome organizers of Lit Crawl Seattle… Lit Crawl Seattle is back! Our third annual romp through Capitol and First Hills happens Thursday, October 23rd from 6pm until the squirrels go home. This year’s lineup features more than 65 authors in 21 readings, all presenting their work free to the public, with many venues …
Seattle Public Library’s downtown Central Branch celebrates its 10th anniversary this May. Everyone’s invited to get in on the fun! Seattle7Writers will light up the night of Indies First Storytime day with Authors Gone Wild. Authors Gone Wild: A Celebration of Bookish Proportions 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, May 17 Seattle Central Library Living …
Peter Mountford gives human form to the volatile science of Economics in his second novel, The Dismal Science, which follows Vincenzo d’Orsi’s purgative transformation as he learns to cope with loss and living. Mountford is embarking on a whirlwind tour, including his Seattle book launch party at Richard Hugo House, February 13 at 7 pm, …
There are places in the world where confessing to be journalist could put your life in danger or make you, in the least, a social pariah. To know that Gabriel, the main character of Peter Mountford’s novel A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism finds it safer to pose as a journalist than admit he is …
