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The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, Bantam Spectra Books ( a division of Doubleday Bantam Dell Publishing Group), ...

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The Bookshop; A History of the American Bookstore by Evan Friss, Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2024 Provenance:   Village Bo...

The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare, directed by Susan Weingarten, Shakespeare Northwest, Rexville-Blackrock Amphitheatre , Throug...

Three Moments of an Explosion by China Miéville, Del Rey Books, an imprint of Random House, 2016 Provenance : I picked this up at the Page...

The Benson Murder Case by S.S. Van Dyne, Charles Scribener's Sons, 1926 The Benson Murder Case , Directed by Frank Tuttle, Paramount Pictu...

You know, I don't talk a lot about my personal life around here, but this one was an adventure, so I'll share. Last Saturday, the Lovely Bri...

Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties by Marion Meade, Harcourt Books, 2004 Provenance: Unsure, but from the ...

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press (Simon & Schuster), 2024 Provenance: World Con was in Seattle last year, and t...

Strange Houses  by Uketsu, translated by Jim Rion, HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2025, original Japanese 2021. Proven...

We are awash in scams these days. Mysterious Docusign demands. Emails claiming to be from the Geek Squad or PayPal announcing that someone ...

What, already? Yes, I promised to go onto a game-buying fast until I bull through some of the games I have already purchased. But a large b...

Sunward by William Alexander, Saga Press (Simon & Schuster), 2025 Provenance: I sat with the author on a panel at NorWesCon, and was impre...

Have you noticed how wonky our holidays are? They seem to have evolved from their original notions into things very different from what was ...

I'm not a gaming addict! I'm an enthusiast!  So, in the past few months I've attended not one but two conventions. That's a rarity because ...

Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Directed by Timothy McCuen Piggee, Seattle Rep through May 10. This one was a very split decision. ...

Walden by Amy Berryman, Directed by Mathew Wright When the Lovely Bride and I attend theater at Arts West in West Seattle, we often have di...

All right, then.  Last time in this space I went on way too long about the games that have accumulated here at Grubb Street over the winte...

This particular edition is long. As in broke into two parts long. Over the winter months, games continued to arrive at Grubb Street. This pa...

Here There Are Blueberries by Moises Kaufman and Amanda Gronich Conceived and Directed by Moises Kaufman, Seattle Rep through 15 February. ...

Yes, there was some flooding. We're doing OK. Thanks for asking.   I don't talk that much about my neighborhood in the blog these days. Grub...

Penelope , based on the writings in the Odyssey by Homer, Music, Lyrics & Arrangements by Alex Bechtel, Book by Alex Bechtel, Grace McLean, ...

Come From Away by Irene Sankoff & David Hein, Directed by Brian Ivie Seattle Rep through Jan 4 So in the face of the atmospheric river pum...

Seattleness: A Cultural Atlas , by Terra Hatfield, Jenny Kempson, and Natalie Ross, Sasquatch Press (at that time part of Penguin Random H...

I often use the term "hanging fire" in reporting these results. The term means a delay between an action and the results of that action. It...

The Well by Peter Schaefer, Shoeless Pete Games, 122-page softbound, 2021, Kickstarter So folks by now know that I regularly post recent g...

The Hot Rock by Donald E. Westlake, Grand Central Publishing, previously known as Warner Books, a Division of Hachette Book Group, 1970. P...

The "Canary" Murder Case by S.S.Van Dine, Fawcett Publications, 1927 The Canary Murder Murder Case , written by S.S. Van Dine, Albert Shel...

Dracula Adapted from Bram Stoker's novel by Nathan Kessler-Jeffrey, directed by Brad Lo Walker, Renton Civic Theatre, through November 2n...

So, the ballots have finally landed here on Grubb Street for the 4 November election. It is an off-off-year election, which means in genera...

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The Roommate by Jen Silverman, directed by Kathryn Van Meter, Arts West through October 19th Fancy Dancer by Larissa Fasthorse, Directed b...

The Play That Goes Wrong by Henry Lewis, Henry Shields, and Jonathan Sayer, directed by Damaso Rodriquez, Seattle Rep through 28 September...