Audiobooks. More specifically, audiobook narrators and the ability of said narrators to make or break an audiobook experience. I was going to try to do this without naming names, but I’ve never before shied away from being upfront about what I don’t like, so why would I now? I think it stemmed from some …
University Book Store‘s branch in the Husky Union Building at the center of the school’s Seattle campus has many things going for it, but “the reason this store is great is because of one guy: Nick DiMartino,” the Stranger reported. “I am doing everything I can to keep literature alive on campus,” DiMartino said. “That’s …
The escape from slavery is one of the most powerful of American stories, but it usually leads in a single direction: north. Whitehead’s railroad, as you might guess from the cover image, doesn’t run in such a straight line. An escape might lead to a greater hell, or to an oddly unsettling heaven. Whitehead doesn’t …
