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Arianne True is a Seattle-based poet from the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations. She teaches with Writers in the Schools, is a Hedgebrook alum, and has her MFA from the program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She'll (probably! If we're still gathering for this!) appear at Cheap Wine & Poetry on March 19th at Hugo House, and she's our Poet in Residence for March. Read her first piece for us, "Nautilus".
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Today, Allen's memoir has been officially canceled. In my nearly 25 years in the book industry, I've never seen this kind of action from the staff of a corporate publisher, and I've never seen such a quick reversal from a corporate publisher. It is remarkable, and it definitely would not have happened before the #MeToo movement.
Let's be clear: unlike what a few concern trolls online might say, this has nothing to do with impinging on Woody Allen's right to free speech. Now that Hachette has dropped Allen's memoir, Allen is free to take it elsewhere, or to self-publish it, or to read it aloud from a soapbox in Central Park. His free speech is totally intact. Nobody has taken it from him.
This is a #MeToo issue. It's also a labor issue. These workers took collective action to protest the platforming of someone who has been accused of being a sexual predator. They protested the fact that their employer did not, according to Ronan Farrow, bother to fact-check the book. They are standing with victims of sexual abuse. And I stand with them.
Let's also hope that this successful collective action has convinced the editors and assistants and PR staff of the publishing industry to consider unionizing. Publishing has not had a long history of unionization, and it's why the industry's power dynamic is so unbalanced. Women overwhelmingly fill jobs in lower-level publishing positions while men overwhelmingly occupy high-level positions. The industry is largely white. And publishers keep consolidating into larger and larger corporate behemoths with little to no accountability to their workers.
Nobody ever got into publishing to get rich, it's true. But unions are about more than just money. Unions get workers a seat at the tables of power. They give workers a voice. If the workers of the publishing industry want to fight decisions like Hachette's purchase of Allen's memoir in the future, the best way to do that is to form a union.
For instance: "Have You Never Been Mellow," is inspired by Don Quixote and "Killing Me Softly" and was about Gone with the Wind. That said, the road goes both ways! Michael Bloomberg's autobiography, Bloomberg by Bloomberg, was actually inspired by the '72 hit "You're so Vain."
See also: the beginning and ending of Frankenstein; Aurorarama; memoirs by Perry, Scott, and Shackleton; The Terror; and those parts of Kavalier and Clay where Josef joins the army and is stationed in the snowy wastes. Just to name a few. The poles and their eeriness have long been a backdrop for stories of survival, about primal conflicts and elemental struggles. Things that are pedestrian events anywhere else in the world are transmuted into terrible omens: halfway through this book I gasped audibly because Oh my god, the sun was setting.
It was almost impossible to talk about Good and Mad last night without talking about Senator Elizabeth Warren. It wasn't a question of whether sexism had some impact on the presidential candidate's disappointing Super Tuesday showing so much as how much blame to place on sexism.
In her excellent New York Times essay on how to represent women more honestly in movies and TV, Brit Marling talks about trying to imagine a female character who doesn't only exist as a response to a male character:
I wondered aloud if maybe there's something like a masculine pattern to running for president, too, that the best way for a woman to run for president would be to give up the hopelessly macho and traditionalist masculine political traditions and find something new.
Last night was the last Reading Through It to be hosted by the Seattle Review of Books. Thanks to the dozens and dozens of Seattleites who participated in the conversation over the last three-and-a-half years. Next month, the South Seattle Emerald takes over hosting duties; their first Reading Through It title is Ibram X. Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist.
ECCC has set up an online form for any ticket- or pass-holders to request a refund. This refund form also applies to comics professionals who are attending the show, although it does not apply to exhibitors who have paid to set up booths and tables at the show.
Short Run Comix & Arts Festival announced this year's recipients of its Trailer Blaze program, which is a weeklong residency for women cartoonists. The new residents are: Veronika Muchitsch, Melanie Stevens, Sophia Zanders, Krusty Wheatfield, Lenora Yerkes, Janna Morton, and Seattle's own Rachel Scheer. You will definitely be hearing more from these cartoonists in the future.
Next weekend, I am scheduled to appear on two panels at Emerald City Comic Con at the Washington State Convention Center. On Saturday, I'm supposed to discuss a new project on an AHOY Comics panel with artists Richard Pace and Soo Lee and writers Tyrone Finch and Stuart Moore. And on Sunday, I am slated to host a panel with Seattle writer Garth Stein and artist Matthew Southworth that would serve as the world premiere of their upcoming Fantagraphics comic Cloven. I've been looking forward to both those panels for months. ECCC has become a high point in my year for all its opportunities to check in with the comics community, buy way too many comics, and sit in on panels.
Over the past few days, a number of major publishers (including DC Comics, Penguin Random House, and Portland comics publisher Dark Horse) and a wide array of comics professionals (including writer Benjamin Percy and cartoonist Kate Leth) have canceled their Emerald City Comic Con appearances due to concern for public safety in the coronavirus outbreak. Their concern is legitimate, considering the fact that Washington state in general, and King County in particular, has been a focal point for COVID-19 infections in the United States.
I share their concern. Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend Emerald City Comic Con this year. I have a person in my life with immunodeficiency issues, and I simply can't justify the risk that person would face if I were to attend a festival in downtown Seattle with 100,000 people from all over the world in the middle of a global outbreak. While ECCC organizers have promised increased sanitation during the convention, there's simply no way to ensure that the coronavirus will not be transmitted at the event.
There are rumblings online about crowdsourcing a "virtual ECCC" in which cartoonists can sell their work to people who might want to support comics artists without having to put themselves or loved ones at risk for coronavirus infection. If someone compiles a list of ECCC vendors who will be financially endangered by the outbreak, I'll be happy to share that list here on the Seattle Review of Books.
Susan Anderson-Newham is Pierce County Library's Early Learning Supervising Librarian. In the early 2000s, she was "just" a librarian. It was a pivotal period, she says, with rapid advances in neuroscience that changed how people thought about kids' brains. Pierce County Library had a program to deliver books to local child care centers, but "they felt there were so many ways they could connect better with the community."
Anderson-Newham has been leading Pierce County's early learning initiatives since then. Since she joined the team, the number of story times has blossomed, with more than 20 every month; childcare centers have access to a formal, managed collection from which they can order on-site delivery; and Anderson-Newham and her team create microcollections on request: picture books with nonbinary or gender-fluid characters, books about kids in foster care, books about kids who aren't sleeping at home. "The program grew in fits and starts," she says, "but we're doing some amazing stuff."
Part of the job is helping other educators think about books in the same way she does, and it's easy to hear how much Anderson-Newham loves her work when she talks about her favorite stories. From stories that unfold through cut paper or a bit of string to popup books that are "just absolutely riveting," her voice brightens. There's also a bit of loss. She brings a copy of The Undefeated to a meeting, so people can see it; "that's where the power is," she says," but "we don't have very many bookstores any more."
Oh, my God, I had a boy. He was four and he had been severely abused. And we were working with him and I was starting to try to take him out into community to meet people and socialize a little bit, because he just was really frightened and very sad. And you read a book called Mrs. Macintosh Hangs Up Her Wash. And that was the first time I saw him smile.
And places where families can find resources, for example, if they're not sure that their child is developing typically. That's part of early learning, too. You can even "book a librarian," which is possibly the best idea ever.
Tiger Oak (whose owner continues to make about $300,000 a year and drives around in a leased Volvo on the company dime) owes me $2,266.64 under two contracts. But many vendors who provided services to this company are owed many times that amount.
A Bellevue College administrator tried to remove Bellevue businessman Miller Freeman's name from an artwork recalling the Japanese internment camps. Instead, that act of vandalism only served to remind the region what a huge piece of shit Miller Freeman really was.
One more thought about the act of Miller Freeman erasure: I don't see the "colleges-are-killing-free-speech" crowd standing up to protest Bellevue College for this act of censorship. Could it be because the censorship was committed in an attempt to protect one of Bellevue's wealthiest families? Funny how disingenuous the free speech absolutists are: they love to send grief down to hippie schools like Evergreen, but they are conspicuously silent when real censorship happens at schools that aren't stereotypically liberal. One might be tempted to call the free-speechers hypocrites.
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