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Claudia Castro Luna is Seattle’s Civic Poet, from 2015-2017 and is the author of the Pushcart nominated Killing Marías (Two Sylvias Press) and This City, (Floating Bridge Press) and the creator of the acclaimed Seattle Poetic Grid. She is also a Hedgebrook and VONA alumna, a 2014 Jack Straw fellow, the recipient of a King County 4Culture grant and an individual artist grant from Seattle’s Office of Arts and Culture. Born in El Salvador she came to the United States in 1981. She has an MA in Urban Planning, a teaching certificate and an MFA in poetry. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest,
Published January 07. 2021 11:49AM | Updated January 07. 2021 11:50AM Betty J. Cotter, Special to The Day Get the weekly rundown Email* Submit “Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy,” by Leslie Brody (Seal Press), $30. The author's name may not be familiar, but her most famous character is: “Harriet the Spy” has been worming her way into grade-schoolers' hearts since her snooping adventures debuted in 1964. In this new biography, Leslie Brody turns the tables on Harriet's creator, Louise Fitzhugh, who never set out to be a children's author. She refused to go on book tours and maintained a Salinger-like seclusion until her death in 1974.
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Print this article The first thing to say about Ijeoma Oluo’s Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America is that it has been misclassified. It is listed as a work of nonfiction, and thanks to some creative gaming of Amazon’s genre tags, it is, as of my writing, America’s No. 1-selling new release in “economic history” (the audiobook version is No. 2). But it is properly speaking a work of fantasy. Indeed, in its intricate, quasi-sociological discussion of a world that does not exist but that possesses an uncanny resemblance to our own, it resembles the work of Jorge Luis Borges or Italo Calvino. Unfortunately, not only Oluo herself but most of her reviewers appear to have missed the trick and are laboring under the delusion she is describing reality. That