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9780295983950

Reading Seattle: The City in Prose

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  • ISBN13:

    9780295983950

  • ISBN10:

    0295983957

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-04-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr
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Seattle, with its spectacular natural beauty and rough frontier history, has inspired writers from its earliest days. This anthology spans seven decades and includes fiction, memoirs, histories, and journalism that define the city or use it as a setting, imparting the flavor of the city through a literary prism. Reading Seattle ranges from classics by Horace R. Cayton, Richard Hugo, Betty MacDonald, Mary McCarthy, Murray Morgan, and John Okada to more recent works by Sherman Alexie, Lynda Barry, David Guterson, J. A. Jance, and Jonathan Raban. It includes cutting-edge work by emerging talents and reintroduces works by important Seattle writers who may have been overlooked in recent years. The writers featured in this volume explore a variety of neighborhoods and districts within the city, delineating urban spaces and painting memorable portraits of characters both historical and fictional. Sometime Seattle resident Peter Donahue teaches at Birmingham-Southern College and is the author of The Cornelius Arms. John Trombold, an independent scholar, has taught English at a number of schools including Seattle University, Pacific Lutheran University, Seattle Central Community College, and The Lakeside School. Writers included: Sherman Alexie; Peter Bacho; Lynda Barry; Archie Binns; Matt Briggs; Colette Brooks; Rebecca Brown; Michael Byers; Jack Cady; Horace R. Cayton; Walt Crowley; Charles D'Ambrosio; Timothy Egan; Earl W. Emerson; David Guterson; Neil Henry; Josephine Herbst; Richard Hugo; J. A. Jance; Thom Jones; Mark Lindquist; Betty MacDonald; Mary McCarthy; Lydia Minatoya; Murray Morgan; John Okada; Mary Brinker Post; Jonathan Raban; Paisley Rekdal; Tom Robbins; Nancy Wilson Ross; Emily Baillargeon Russin; Roger Sale; Charlotte Watson Sherman; David Shields; Natalia Rachel Singer; Monica Sone; Matthew Stadler; Emmett Watson; Edwin Weihe; Barbara Wilson

Table of Contents

FOREWORD xi
Charles Johnson
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv
INTRODUCTION 3(18)
Peter Donahue
PART 1: COMING INTO FOCUS (1930s-1980s)
Northwest Gateway: The Story of the Port of Seattle
21(10)
Archie Binns
The Executioner Waits
31(9)
Josephine Herbst
Farthest Reach: Oregon and Washington
40(6)
Nancy Wilson Ross
Annie Jordan: A Novel of Seattle
46(3)
Mary Brinker Post
Long Old Road
49(6)
Horace R. Cayton
How I Grew
55(4)
Mary McCarthy
Anybody Can Do Anything
59(6)
Betty MacDonald
Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle
65(8)
Murray Morgan
Nisei Daughter
73(7)
Monica Sone
No-No Boy
80(6)
John Okada
Seattle, Past to Present
86(5)
Roger Sale
Digressions of a Native Son
91(5)
Emmett Watson
The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet's Autobiography
96(13)
Richard Hugo
PART 2. MANY VOICES (1980s-1990s)
Still Life with Woodpecker
109(6)
Tom Robbins
The Rainy City
115(3)
Earl W. Emerson
Sisters of the Road
118(4)
Barbara Wilson
Seattle's Son
122(5)
David Guterson
The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
127(5)
Timothy Egan
Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America
132(9)
Jonathan Raban
Black Planet: Facing Race during an NBA Season
141(6)
David Shields
Emerald City: Third & Pike
147(5)
Charlotte Watson Sherman
Seattle and Vicinity
152(7)
Colette Brooks
A Good Man
159(7)
Rebecca Brown
Lying in Wait
166(8)
J.A. Jance
Rites of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle
174(8)
Walt Crowley
Street
182(3)
Jack Cady
Cold Snap
185(14)
Thom Jones
American Bullfrog
199(5)
Charles D'Ambrosio
Indian Killer
204(7)
Sherman Alexie
Blurred Vision: How the Eighties Began in One American Household
211(10)
Natalia Rachel Singer
Dark Blue Suit
221
Peter Bacho

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