Tim Appelo

Tim Appelo, City Arts editorial director, was Amazon.com’s Bestsellers and digital video editor, acting managing editor of The Poetry Foundation and founding video critic for Entertainment Weekly. He has been a film critic for The Nation, KING-FM, The Oregonian, KCTS, Seattle Weekly and The Seattle Times, an art critic for Seattle Weekly and the Seattle P-I and a music critic for People magazine. He has written on books for The New York Times, New York Observer and Washington Post; on Hollywood for Premiere, The Observer (London), Slate, Salon and The Los Angeles Times; on theatre for The Village Voice and NY1 TV; on television for TV Guide, Film.com and Rolling Stone; on science for The New York Academy of Sciences magazine and Elle; and on Tim Curry’s marvelous garden for HG. He won the Philip Hicks Prize for Literary Criticism and a national Association of Alternative Newsweeklies prize, shared the Missouri Award for best newspaper arts section and got an Emmy nomination (but lost). He comes from the ghost town of Deep River in Wahkiakum County on the Columbia. Goldie Hawn kissed him on the cheek in her trailer; director Alan Rudolph tried to strangle him in a restaurant; John Cusack flying-tackled him in a 100-year Pittsburgh snowstorm. His first book Ally McBeal sold 100,000 copies in ten languages. His second, Gus Van Sant: Interviews, is forthcoming.