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On the occasion of William H. Gass’s birthday, I’ve cherry-picked sentences from all of his books: a publishing career spanning five decades. This was no easy task, since his fictions and essays and interviews are troves of meticulously rendered, seemingly...

Visual Arts Building 30 West (7448 63rd Ave. NE in Magnuson Park.) presents “Open Studios” on Oct. 9 from 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. A good opportunity to see what Seattle artists at this studio are up to. Artist Renko Dempster (Suiren) is one of the artists participating...

"The last great frontier," people called it. "The next Palm Springs." "The desert of plenty." It was the mid 1950s, and Borrego Springs—a tiny unincorporated community located smack in the middle of the sprawling Anza-Borrego Desert—was poised to become...

STATE PARKS has apparently rented all the camping spots at Hendy Woods to a Russian evangelical group over the weekend, much to the chagrin and even outrage of locals. The Rooskies are said to be bringing all their own firewood, food and other supplies...

The Atlantic’s editors and writers share their recommendations for summer reading—new titles, old favorites, and others in between. Homegoing By Yaa Gyasi In her first novel, Yaa Gyasi cleverly weaves the intergenerational tale of a family through...