Photo by Rita AlcantaraInto the WoodsTen years ago, West Seattle resident Nancy Whitlock set out to connect with her neighbors and to help the environment through art. She succeeded at both by creating the Nature Consortium, a grassroots nonprofit…
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Letters from Our Readers
Seattle Beats Tacoma?
Just got done reading the David Shields article (“I Could Go On Like This Forever,” July) and skimming through the rest of the City Arts Seattle. I really like it! I don’t know if it has to do with my familiarity with…
How to Write Right: How Much Less Do You Care?
Advice from our Copyeditor
When people say, “I could care less,” they’re saying something they don’t mean.
They’re saying they do care. To see why, picture a scale from zero to ten. Zero means you don’t care at all; ten means you care a…
How to Write Right: Lay vs. Lie
Advice from our Copyeditor
Had a long day? Feel like laying down? Wait a moment. “Lay” needs a direct object (a person or thing that is the object of the verb’s action). So you don’t lay down, you lay something down: you might lay your…
I Could Go On Like This Forever
To tell the truth, all writing is fiction. Let me explain.
Early excerpts from Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (Knopf) collaged with e-mail correspondence between David Shields and Bond Huberman
David Shields is a prolific author and professor of…
Freelance Living: A Self-Serving Proposal
Funding for the arts has never been simpler: give me all your money.
Always the same three questions from Uncle Leonard, all oddly the same: Do I have a job? No. Do I receive a regular paycheck? No. Am I making a decent living? No again.
I’m…
How to Write Right: Barbara and the Case of the Subject Pronoun
Advice from our Copyeditor
You’ll often hear this common misconstruction involving the word “I”:
“Would you like to go to the movies with Barbara and I?”
What’s wrong? Try getting rid of Barbara. The sentence now reads:
“Would you…