More Words, Please

A Community of Writers Reflects on Local Literary History in Seattle City of Literatureby Rich SmithIf you really wanted to get to know Seattle, I guess you could talk to the mountains, which have technically (tectonically?) been here longer than anything else. But they're a bunch of stiffs. You could read the histories, as long as they weren't written by the victors. Or you could talk to the city's storytellers, comics, poets, and booksellers—the people who pull words and drawings from th