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- Story told in 2,095 tattoos sets the tone for festival's literary lineup
- Ellis is no less outlandish with his latest, 'Lunar Park'
- Trail's End: Lopez Island author on the map after 14 years of toil
- Dragon book sets sales record
- Tom Robbins returns with a rowdy set of short-takes
- Lynch's Puget Sound tale 'Highest Tide' is awash in magic
- Author says GOP is waging war on scientific inquiry
- Authors rejoice as Oprah makes her book club current again
- Powerful 'Burning Fence' explores NW author's hardscrabble youth
- 'Sex and the City' author promotes her latest at the W hotel
- Local author keeping a close eye on Hurricane Rita
- It's raining new books and we'll help you pick the choicest
- Author of 'Rebel Angels' has her own dramatic tale
- Seattle author Terry Brooks on New York Times best-seller list
- For Seattle fans, a big date with 'Sex and the City' author
- Order 'A Day at the Market' to help two charities
- The Iraq war through the eyes of a female soldier: Conflict on all sides
- Smith shows a sure hand again with far-reaching 'On Beauty'
- Debut writer shines with 'Twilight'
- Irish author John Banville wins Booker prize
- 'Adventure Divas' promotion trail leads Morris back to Seattle
- The cult of celebrity doesn't interest Brit-lit phenom Zadie Smith
- Another city steeped in ritual and history, Venice, becomes Berendt's new Savannah
- Doctorow, Didion among National Book Award finalists
- There isn't much high-flying poet Rita Dove can't do
- The grim lives of unlikely friends intersect in National Book Award finalist
- A moment with ... Rita Dove, former U.S. poet laureate
- Season's Readings: Kids books to choo-choose
- Read all about it -- oh, you already have: Seattle is most literate city
- Trio's talk will be a force of nature
- Lewis' prejudices tarnish fifth 'Narnia' book
- Dust Bowl saga dazzles with its fascinating history of human heroism and folly
- Doctorow to talk about his highly acclaimed Civil War novel
- Got readers? Feed their habit with these bookish gifts
- Need a last-minute gift idea? We've got you covered
- Dazzling debut novel stands out in a memorable list of favorites in 2005
- Audubon book goes for big bucks
- Rona Jaffe, 1931-2005: Author of 'The Best of Everything'
- Author's ear for storytelling makes heavy 'Collapse' a compelling read
- Romantic suspense writer's latest is her 'darkest' tale yet
- Pacific Northwest Booksellers announce award winners
- New faces of Courtney Love emerge from mother's memoir
- Harris pulls on her boarding-school roots for her latest novel
- The Yellowstone conflagration fuels an ambitious history of fire's role in the West
- Memoir flap raises ethical questions
- Courtney Love was just one of her mother's tribulations, memoir reveals
- A moment with ... Authors Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm
- Writing and relationship go hand in hand for married lit couple
- KCTS/9 launches its annual writing contest
- Jayne Ann Krentz' latest novel debuts at No. 6 on The New York Times list
- 'Peter Pan' sequel to be published this fall
- Magazine questions authenticity of award-winning memoirist Nasdijj
- Children's book award winners announced
- Biographer wins Whitbread Book Award
- Frey flap draws sympathy from novelist who began writing a memoir
- Bronson shines an encouraging light on the state of families
- Doubt cast on 'memoirs' of Nasdijj
- Hugo House director leaving
- Peter Donahue's 'Madison House' wins historical fiction prize
- Author explores the language of mothers and daughters
- 'Jaws' writer was shark advocate
- Final volume of Branch's epic King biography leaves something to be desired
- More profiles of courage from Karenna Gore Schiff
- Author's funny guide spells out how to 'face and destroy the growing robot menace'
- Do we wink at underage drinking? Author says it's time to open our eyes
- Odd saga earns kudos for 'shape-shifting scribe' Cooper
- Jay McInerney's 'The Good Life' reflects a less cocky, more personal writer
- Octavia Butler, 1947-2006: Sci-fi writer a gifted pioneer in white, male domain
- Seattle science fiction author Octavia Butler dies at 58
- Memorial service for Butler to be held Thursday
- There's little sunshine in a harrowing, well-told tale of a Scandinavian family
- A probing look at the cost of war for the families left behind
- Civil War book 'The March' wins critics prize
- Author find that husbands aren't as shallow as we've been led to believe
- A moment with ... Mary Pope Osborne, author
- A moment with Mary Pope Osborne
- 'The Edge': Two British dads create fantasy worlds for young minds
- Britain's Waters switches settings and finds new popularity
- Lawyer-writer puts the fate of his 'Jury Master' in the readers' hands
- New scholarship created in honor of Octavia Butler
- Copper Canyon basks in the glow of two huge prizes and its illustrious writers
- 'On American Soil' co-winner of Book of the Year Award
- Australian writer Markus Zusak is already a literary sensation
- Outraged yet engaging scientist can't remain silent about Earth's climate crisis
- 'Lipstick Jihad': A view of Iran through exiles' daughter's eyes
- 'Da Vinci Code' author did not steal ideas for book, says judge
- Best-selling mystery author Dick Francis is back with 'Under Orders'
- Novelist Michael Collins wins North Pole Marathon
- Mitchell packs another poignant punch with a new novel about a stuttering teen
- Author Peter Matthiessen ends this season's Seattle Arts & Lectures
- An American reporter's murder in Mexico spawns a riveting quest for justice
- Take your weekend pick: Poets on the isle or writers in the city
- A moment with ... Dan Piraro, 'Bizarro' cartoonist
- Hip Mama Gore does it herrr way, even on a book tour
- Junger's probe of an old murder case reaches an unsatisfying verdict
- Contest for book lovers offers luxury prizes
- New 'Where's Waldo?' book now for sale
- Sebastian Junger's tale of murder was a tough challenge
- Victim returns to the scene of the crime and produces an unforgettable memoir
- Traitor or heroine? Author re-examines a historical view
