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06.29.2009 Zak Smith Makes the Sex Industry Human in We Did Porn
Porn! It’s so controversial. Are we creating fantasies that we can’t live up to? Are we exploiting women? Or are we just enjoying sex? However you feel, punk artist turned porn star Zak Smith tells all in his new memoir/sketch book, We Did Porn, and Bumbershoot is thrilled to have him spill all the juicy details Festival weekend.
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06.23.2009 Today's Fresh Links: David Cross, Janelle Monae, Audrye Sessions and more artists!
David Cross skips goes across the pond, Janelle Monae has staying power, Audrye Session has free tickets, and more Bumbershoot artists in today’s Fresh Links.
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06.18.2009 The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Kathleen Flinn Triumphs
Kathleen Flinn is bringing her tales of food, romance and Paris to Bumbershoot! In her book, The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry, Kathleen tells all, but you can learn more about the author and her life at Le Cordon Bleu as she and chef extraordinaire, Tom Douglas, share the Literary Arts Stage.
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08.19.2008 Read Joshua Furst's "The Hurricane"
Five Chapters this week serializes “The Hurricane,” a new short story by Joshua Furst. You can read a new part of the story each day this week.
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08.19.2008 Saul Williams rocks the vote
Saul Williams breaks down the issues for SPIN.com.
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08.08.2008 Recommended If You Like: Animals
So you’re heading to Bumbershoot. Congratulations are in order. But what’s that, you say? You love animals? Well, my friend, you’re in luck! There are quite a few faux-inhuman artists at the Festival this year and with the aid of your helpful guide (me) you can get ready for a veritable sonic safari!
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07.22.2008 Jonathan Evison's book notes
Jonathan Evison shares his notes for All About Lulu as part of Largeheartedboy’s Book Notes series, in which “authors create and discuss a music playlist that is in some way relevant to their recently published books.”
Evison: I’m a weeper—there, I’ve said it. And it’s safe to say that nothing makes me weep more frequently, more effusively, and more gratefully than the volatile combination of music and beer. A lot of beer. I like to get real dumb and listen to music in my headphones under the stars, and have a nice weep—I find it regenerative.
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07.18.2008 Reviewing Jonathan Evison's new novel
The Seattle Times reviews Bainbridge Islander Jonathan Evison’s new novel, All About Lulu, calling it “a debut novel worth getting excited about.”
Evison appears Saturday at 5:30 in the Leo. K. along with Sarah Shun-lien Bynum as part of New Fiction hosted by Paul Constant.
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07.17.2008 Saul Williams "Black History Month" Live Video
Check out Saul Williams doing some spoken word. Prefix brings us the video and pictures.
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07.14.2008 Joshua Ferris profiles The Hold Steady
Bumbershoot literary star Joshua Ferris (appearing with Chip Kidd as part of The Office in the Leo K.) profiles The Hold Steady for the New York Times Magazine, calling them New York’s most insightful party band, but not before saying this:
Initially, I disliked them immensely.
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07.07.2008 Bumbershoot Lit Arts get more love
Add the Everett Herald to the list of publications excited for Bumbershoot, after this piece on our literary arts lineup and haiku contest.
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07.01.2008 Seattle Times Loves Bumbershoot Literature Lineup
Sounds like the folks over at the Seattle Times are getting geared up for Bumbershoot’s literary lineup.
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06.27.2008 Seattle Weekly Gets Excited for Bumbershoot's Literary Lineup
Seattle Weekly heaps some love onto Bumbershoot’s recent literary lineup additions.
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06.25.2008 Bumbershoot's Literary Lineup!
Bumbershoot is indeed Seattle’s Music & Arts Festival… but really, Bumbershoot is also a Music & SMARTS Festival. Case in point: all of the sweet literary artists and intelligentsia that flock to the Festival each year. This year you can get your music on, while holding true to your brainiac leanings by bragging about your time at Starlee Kine’s Post-It Note Reading Series, checking out comix artists Dan Clowes, Adrian Tomine and Ivan Brunetti, and need we even mention William Gibson, Sherman Alexie, Saul Williams, Chip Kidd or Edmund White? The 2008 literary arts lineup looks awesome; we’ll save you a seat. For a complete literary listing, visit bumbershoot.org/music-and-arts.htm.
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06.25.2008 Teen Angst Poetry Contest!
In the spirit of Sara Bynoe’s F**k Off & Die: Tales in Teen Angst Poetry, we turn to BumberFans for their most heartfelt teenaged writings. It might be your worst fear to let your teenage self see the light of day again after all these years, but let go of your shame and you could score a pair of Gold Passes! But of course that’d mean Sara would read your scary teen poetry to a live audience at Bumbershoot, so that’s a risk you’ll have to weigh… Get all the deets at here.
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06.24.2008 An Intimate Talk with Saul Williams
PopMatters.com sat down with Saul Williams after a recent concert for an in-depth interview about technology, writing, race and reality.
I’ve traveled through the album several times and it has many different levels and perspectives: sometimes [it’s in] first person and others times you play a character. You can listen to it as a story, a teaching [experience] or a chance to let loose on the dance floor.
And I created it that way. On one level I just wanted to make a really cool dance album. You don’t have to understand the words, in several places it’s where I placed the words and how they sound rhythmically, how they fit the groove and tempo and the overall feel of the song. As a listener who’s looking for a good beat, it’s about finding those pockets. And if you’re looking for the political stuff then there are those pockets as well.
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06.12.2008 A playlist by William Gibson
The New York Times Paper Cuts Blog features “Living With Music,” an annotated playlist by William Gibson.
Gibson is slated to appear at Bumbershoot Monday, September 1, but with two of his ten picks (Neko Case and Lucinda Williams) set to perform on Saturday, perhaps we’ll see the renowned author a couple days early.
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06.11.2008 Author William Gibson talks to IO9
William Gibson opens up to io9 about Godzilla and politics in between dissections of his techno-inspired novel Spook Country.
In Spook Country, old ideologies hang around and shape the initial phases of a longterm change that it will never be able to keep up with. The digital realm is inherently porous. These days we’re all coming to the attention of the authorities as a matter of course. But the really new thing is that the authorities are coming to our attention. It’s more difficult for authorities to keep their secrets.
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06.06.2008 Dan Clowes to Write Paul and Michel Gondry's Animated Movie
Dan Clowes will be writing the new animated film by Paul and Michel Gondry (the latter having directed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, among others), as reported in highwallpaper.com.
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06.02.2008 Announcing Bumbershoot's Haiku Contest
Love writing a witty haiku? Put your talents to good use, and win Bumbershoot stuff! It’s so easy…
All you have to do is add your haiku to Bumbershoot’s Facebook wall. Then, tell us about it by filling out the simple registration form. That’s it! Every Monday through August 11 we will announce the week’s best haiku on our page.
Weekly winners will receive a limited edition Bumbershoot 2008 official poster, and one grand prize winner will receive a pair of 3-day passes to this year’s Bumbershoot, August 30–September 1 at Seattle Center.
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05.29.2008 Under the covers with Chip Kidd
Chip Kidd discusses his new novel, The Learners, and his life as a famous book jacket designer with the Wild River Review. They’ve also got a nice gallery samples of his cover art through the years.
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04.22.2008 Tiny Mix Tapes chats with Blitzen Trapper
Tiny Mix Tapes interviews Portland’s Blitzen Trapper, who cite literary works as some of their chief influences:
“I don’t buy records, but I listen to music because it’s everywhere. It’s all around us. That’s why I don’t really buy it. Because you can go wherever and someone’s always got music. There’s almost too much music. I think get most of my ideas from books. I feel like Wild Mountain Nation is a combination of Jorge Luis Borges, Zane Grey, Italo Calvino with maybe a little bit of Frank Herbert thrown in.”
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11.13.2007 2008 Bumbershoot Applications Available Now
Attention musicians, visual artists, writers, dancers, filmmakers, thespians, performance artists, crafters, and restaurateurs!! Want to showcase your talent at next year’s Festival? 2008 Bumbershoot applications are available now online. Visit bumbershoot.org/apply.htm for more information including upcoming application deadlines. Apply soon, or you might miss your big break!
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09.12.2007 The answer to the post-Bumbershoot Blues
Jeff Vandermeer reflects on his Bumbershoot experience at the Amazon Bookstore Blog.
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08.30.2007 A Blog by Nicola Griffith
The featured blog today comes from Nicola Griffith. Griffith was born in England and has written five novels to date. Her most recent novel, Always, is the third (after Stay and The Blue Place) to feature ex-cop and self-defense instructor Aud Torvingen. Griffith has received the Lambda Literary Award (five times), the James Tiptree award, the Nebula Award and the World Fantasy Award.
Nicola Griffith will be speaking on Superheroes, Heroines, and a Strange City at the Leo K. Theatre on Monday September 1 starting at 5:15.
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08.27.2007 A Blog by Ryan Boudinot
This featured blog is by Ryan Boudinot. Boudinot is the author of The Littlest Hitler, a collection of short stories and Sperm & Egg, a novel set to appear in spring of 2008. His work has appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, McSweeney’s, Black Book, The Stranger and elsewhere. He is on the faculty at Goddard College’s Port Townsend MFA program.
Ryan Boudinot will be performing with other Bad Ass Writers at the Leo K. Theater Saturday, September 1 at 3:30.
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08.26.2007 Megan Kelso returns to Seattle for Bumbershoot
An interview with comic-book writer and artist Megan Kelso, originally of Seattle.
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08.26.2007 Author Mary Gordon at Bumbershoot
Mary Gordon, with novelist Lydia Millet and moderator Matt Briggs, will take part in a Bumbershoot panel discussion titled “Happy Lives.” Read The Seattle Times review of her book Circling My Mother.
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08.26.2007 Wesley Stace (aka John Wesley Harding)
In singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding’s second novel, penned under his real name, Wesley Stace, the author both investigates and celebrates the art of ventriloquism while simultaneously lampooning every storyteller’s dilemma: finding just the right voice in which to tell a story. Read The Seattle Times review.
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08.24.2007 A Blog by Jeff VanderMeer
This featured blog is from Jeff VanderMeer. This author is a two-time World Fantasy Award winner whose books have made the year’s best lists of Amazon.com, Publishers Weekly, the San Francisco Chronicle and many others. Translated into 16 languages, his work has inspired a soundtrack by rock band The Church and an upcoming Sony Playstation animation.
Jeff VanderMeer will be speaking during the program “Superheroes, Heroines, and a Strange City” on Saturday September 1 at 5:15 PM at the Leo K. Theatre.
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08.24.2007 A Blog by Kim Deitch
Today’s featured blogger is Kim Deitch. Deitch is widely regarded as one of the best cartoonists of his generation. A seminal figure in the Underground Comix movement in the 1960s, his work has since appeared in many publications including Raw, L.A. Weekly, Weirdo, Heavy Metal and Nickelodeon Magazine that featured his beloved Southern Fried Fugitives.
Kim Deitch will participate in Comix All Stars on Sunday, September 2 at 5:45 at the Literary Arts Stage.
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08.24.2007 A Blog by Ellen Forney
This featured blog is from Ellen Forney. Cartoonist Ellen Forney was chosen as one of 2007’s Northwest’s top writers by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. She recently collaborated with writer Sherman Alexie on the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian for Little, Brown. Her recent book, I Love Led Zeppelin,received a prestigious Eisner nomination as Best Reality-Based Comic. Her comic, Lustlab Ad of the Week, will be collected into a book, Lust, to be released in January 2008.
Ellen Forney will be at Bumbershoot appearing on the Boeing Performing Arts Stage Saturday, September 1 at 3:45.
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08.24.2007 A Blog by Lyall Bush
This featured blog is from Lyall Bush. Bush is the Executive Director of Richard Hugo House in Seattle. He has published personal essays in The Iowa Review and essays on film and books in Film Comment, Books in Canada, The Seattle Times and The Stranger. He is currently writing a collection of stories.
Lyall Bush will speak with fellow “Bad Ass Writers” on Saturday, September 1 at 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM in the Leo K. Theatre.
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08.24.2007 A Blog by Megan Kelso
This featured blog is from Megan Kelso. After graduating from Evergreen State College, Kelso joined the burgeoning Seattle cartoonist scene. In 1993, she became the first woman to receive a Xeric grant for her self-published comic, Girlhero. She has since published two more books and is currently working on a graphic novel and a serialized story running in The New York Times Magazine.
Kelso will be speaking with other Comix All Stars at the Leo K. Theatre starting at 5:45.
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08.24.2007 A Blog by Davy Rothbart
This blog will feature Davy Rothbart. Author and filmmaker Davy Rothbart is best known as the Creator and Editor of Found Magazine, a publication dedicated to discarded notes and items found and sent in by readers. In addition to contributing to NPR’s This American Life, Rothbart is also the author of The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas, a collection of short stories.
Rothbart will be speaking on Saturday September 1 at the Leo K. Theatre at 1:45 PM.
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08.24.2007 A Blog By Trisha Ready
This featured blog features Trisha Ready. Trisha Ready is pursuing a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, and beginning a practicum internship at a local psychiatric hospital. Her essays and stories have appeared in various publications including Swivel, The Rendezvous Reader, The Stranger, Mother Jones and Exquisite Corpse. She has an abiding fascination with plate tectonics.
Ready will be speaking on Sunday, September 2 with a program called Happy Lives. The presentation will begin at the Leo K. Theatre at 2:00 PM.
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08.24.2007 A Blog by Ann Powers
This featured blog is from Ann Powers. Ann Powers is the chief pop critic for the Los Angeles Times. She was born in Seattle, got her start at the now-defunct Rocket, and recently spent four years as a curator at Experience Music Project. She is the author of Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America and, with the artist, Tori Amos Piece By Piece.
Ann Powers be participating in a discussion on writing about music at the 33-1/3 Reading & Listening Party which will be held at the Leo K. Theatre Monday, September 3 starting at 4:45.
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08.24.2007 A Blog by Brangien Davis
Today’s featured blog is from Brangien Davis. Davis is editor in chief of Swivel magazine, the only nationally distributed literary journal devoted to smart, funny writing by smart, funny women. As a freelance writer, Davis’s work has appeared in The Village Voice, The Seattle Times, ReadyMade and elsewhere. She is also a book editor, most recently for Lauren Weedman’s collection.
Brangien Davis will be moderating “Of Clowns and Ventriloquists”“at Bumbershoot on the Literary Arts Stage, Monday, September 3 at 2:30.
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08.24.2007 A Blog by Wesley Stace
This featured blog is by Wesley Stace. Wesley Stace, born in Sussex, England, published his first novel, Misfortune, to critical acclaim in 2005. One of the Washington Post’s Books of the Year and Amazon.com’s Ten Best Novels of 2005, Misfortune was also nominated for the Guardian First Book Award, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize and the James Tiptree Award. Misfortune was also the occasion of a rollicking Bumbershoot performance subsequently released on DVD. Stace’s reading is on the occasion of his second novel, By George, which features a ventriloquist and the dummy’s memoirs.
Wesley Stace will read portions of his new novel on Monday, September 3 at 2:30 at the Leo K. Theatre. He will also perform as John Wesley Harding on Sunday, September 2 at 8:00 on the Wells Fargo Stage, and participate in “Nick Drake Words and Music” at the Leo K on Sunday at 3:45.
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08.03.2007 Announcing... Bumbershoot's Hemingway Challenge
Let's face it: books are long. They're chocked full of big words that frankly, we simply don't have time to read. Now more than ever people want the good stuff, and they want it fast. Just look at instant coffee, instant messaging, and instant photos for proof.
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07.07.2007 Full Lineup! Discount Tickets! Music Preview!
Following a series of MAJOR teasers, we are finally unleashing the complete lineup for the 2007 Bumbershoot: Seattle's Music & Arts Festival. That's right, music, visual arts, comedy, literary arts, film, performance, dance, theater, and special installations all for your planning pleasure. From film director John Sayles and performance artist Taylor Mac to pop icon Fergie and SNL veterans Janeane Garofalo and Fred Armisen, Bumbershoot will surely satisfy the widest of artistic tastes.
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05.25.2007 LA Weekly gets up close and personal with Miranda July
LA Weekly profiles Miranda July and her new book, No One Belongs Here More Than You.
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05.25.2007 NY News profiles Miranda July
nynews.com profiles genre- and platform-hopper Miranda July.
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05.12.2007 Miranda July Finds a Fresh Use for Kitchen Appliances
Miranda July’s new book No One Belongs Here More Than You comes out May 15. Check out her interesting approach to the book’s website. And then go to her Reading And Dance Party on May 17 at Neumos. It’s FREE!
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04.04.2007 Bumbershoot 2007 Partial Lineup
As spring begins to bloom some of you may already be gearing up to make summer plans. We have something that just might help… a glimpse at the 2007 Bumbershoot lineup! Gold, Platinum, and 3-day passes are on sale now.
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