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2015

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Open Books Opts Out of Traditional Poetry Readings

From Shelf Awareness: Open Books Drops Readings, Promotes ‘Communal’ Events In an unusual move that runs against the grain of independent bookselling trends, Open Books: A Poem Emporium, Seattle, Wash., last month began a new policy of no longer hosting poetry readings. Owners John Marshall and Christine Deavel said in a store post that the …

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2013

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Ryan Boudinot: Seattle and UNESCO’s City of Literature Program

Author Ryan Boudinot (Blueprints of the Afterlife, The Littlest Hitler) delivered the following speech at the reading celebrating Elliott Bay Book Company’s 40th Anniversary on June 30, 2013. Before I address the subject of Elliott Bay Book Company’s future, I’d like to acknowledge a few people. First, the extraordinarily well-read, friendly, tireless, generous, and in one particular …

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Open Books Opts Out of Traditional Poetry Readings

Ryan Boudinot: Seattle and UNESCO’s City of Literature Program

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