June 6 Blvd Park (with Bushwick artist Tekla Waterfield) at the Triple Door, 7:30pm Historian and author Kate Brown reads at Town Hall, 7:30pm Novelist Ru Freeman reads at Elliot Bay Books, 7pm June 7 Poet Mary Szybist reads at Open Books, 7:30pm Tai Shan’s 9th Student Showcase at Dusty Strings, 6:30pm June 9 Tiny […]
The Seattle Film Festival is in full swing and, as anything book or music related is always on our radar, we’ve rounded up our favorite films that deal with both subjects. Bring out your calendar and make sure you don’t miss Bushwick Seattle’s SIFF picks: 1) Twenty Feet from Stardom June 1 and 2 at […]
Over at Powell’s blog recently, Josh Hanagarne wrote about books that have the power to change lives. He mused over all the people he had encountered who claimed that a book had changed their life, but when questioned gave such a dissatisfying answer: “How?” I said. Meaning, how did it change your life? “Because it […]
For most of my life the only way I knew to make scrambled eggs was to microwave them. All the better if you had a paper bowl to do it in. My mother microwaved everything, even pork chops. Also, I grew up in the Midwest, where vegetables are alien objects. (I once brought a pear […]
It’s time to confess. We all have our secrets—but what haunts your playlists and bookshelves? What book do you stick on the shelf making sure the spine faces in? What songs are you embarrassed to listen to on repeat when no one else is home? What are your guiltiest pleasures? I’ll admit to one of […]
Here at the Bushwick Bookclub Seattle we love books and we love music, but our favorite is the intersection of books and music. (And smiling. Smiling’s our favorite too.) Musicians frequently reference literature in their songs. Dylan quotes from The Great Gatsby on his album Love and Theft. The Beastie Boys claim they’ve “got more […]
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