Every summer, schools and libraries ramp up their summer reading programs, in an effort to keep kids reading during the months they spend away from school. This year, cultural institutions… Read more »

A former Amazon employee is escalating his ongoing protest of the company. Kivin Varghese plans to go on a hunger strike beginning next week, as reported on Geekwire. Varghese has… Read more »

Seattle’s got the Space Needle. Frasier. The reigning Super Bowl champions. Macklemore. And one of the very best literary scenes in the country. Stores like The Elliott Bay Book Company and… Read more »

Amazon paid $52.2 million for another entire block of downtown Seattle last week, most likely to house new office towers or a steely drone cloaca or a company rec center.… Read more »

Putting up with the miseries of air travel seems to be getting more and more difficult by the day, and one of the best ways to distract yourself from the… Read more »

To kick off its summer reading program, the Seattle Public Library set out to break one of the great literary records: the longest book domino chain in the world. If… Read more »

Amazon revised plans for their new headquarters in downtown Seattle least week, replacing one proposed building at the center of the three block corporate campus with three interconnected steel and… Read more »

Last week, we told you about the Seattle bookstore formerly known as Queen Anne Books that had shut down in the fall and has just reopened as Queen Anne Book… Read more »

Back in October, one of Seattle’s great independent bookstores, Queen Anne Books, shut its doors somewhat abruptly after twenty-four years in business. The store, which won the WNBA’s Pannell Award for… Read more »

Amazon.com’s earnings may be down, as everyone’s been talking about lately, but the company is nonetheless ”in talks to buy land next to its Seattle headquarters that the company may use… Read more »