Kimberly Banti

The charmingly dysfunctional family portrayed in Eleanor Brown’s debut novel, The Weird Sisters, has quite the idiosyncratic habit of communicating in tongues. Shakespearian tongues, that is. For instance, when patriarch and Shakespeare expert Dr. James Andreas summons home his daughters to help care for their cancer-stricken mother, he writes... continue reading on Seattlest

After the horrifying footage of last week’s devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan overtook TVs and computer screens around the world, local media outlets are turning their sights to theoretical natural disasters in our backyards — literally. NBC affiliate King5 produced a segment, which aired last night, that hypothesized the... continue reading on Seattlest

"Seattle Public Library" by JeanineAnderson from the Seattlest Flickr pool Are you a teensy bit ashamed of the overdue library book fines that have incrementally accrued over the months and thus managed to worm their way into your guilty conscience? If you’re too embarrassed to go into your local... continue reading on Seattlest

"Nancy Pearl Action Figure" by B.K. Dewey from the Seattlest Flickr pool Seattle’s own librarian extraordinaire Nancy Pearl is adding two more accolades to her curriculum vitae this evening at Elliott Bay Book Company, where her long-time publisher Sasquatch Books will present awards for lifetime achievement from the Pacific... continue reading on Seattlest

"Lemurs" by Bukanza from the Seattlest Flickr pool Nothing says romance like a little eau de toilette… especially when it smells like a real toilet, a la the Tacoma aroma. So says Yelp in a newly released study of 2010 pre-Valentine’s Day search activity, which revealed Tacoma, Washington, to... continue reading on Seattlest