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Elliott Bay Book company

Tonight: A Celebration of IMAGE - Bearing the Mystery

You're invited to join me tonight at Elliott Bay Book Company for a very special reading and booksigning. Robert Clark, Madeline DeFrees, Luci Shaw, Gregory Wolfe, and Mary Kenagy Mitchell will be reading from and signing copies of Bearing the Mystery: 20 Years of Image. Here are the

On Movies & Media

An Invitation to a Celebration

I have a special invitation for film-lovers... It's waiting on page 123 of the new issue of Image journal. Order your copy today, or even better... subscribe! Then mark your calendar. The full announcement will be made online soon, and word is already getting around. But if you

On Books & Writing

Congratulations, IMAGE!

Congratulations to Image journal for twenty years of standard-setting work. In the territory where art and faith intersect, no publication has produced a more profound body of work, nor boasted such an accomplished roster of writers and artists. Check out Bearing the Mystery: Twenty Years of Image, the beautiful, "

On Books & Writing

Sara Zarr's in the new issue of Image.

Sara Zarr and I are very, very different people, writing very different kinds of books. Nevertheless, we became friends a few years ago at Image journal's summertime arts conference, The Glen Workshop, which takes place in Santa Fe, New Mexico. We met in the fiction workshop taught by

On Books & Writing

The Sixth Annual Denise Levertov Award

This just in: Join Image journal and acclaimed writer Eugene Peterson for the 2009 Denise Levertov Award lecture and reading, and a celebration of Image’s Twentieth Anniversary. Peterson, a contributor to Image and author of the bestselling The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language, will give a reading and

On Books & Writing

Elliott Spitzer Makes a Porno, Part II; Also: Christian Approach to Movies

Laura Bramon Good delivers Part 2 of her series "Elliot Spitzer Makes a Porno" ... at Image's blog, Good Letters. (If you missed Part 1, it's here.) * Greg Wright on "Anatomy of a Christian Approach to Movies" (Hey, thanks, Greg! I'm

My Third Conversation with Charlie Kaufman

I first met Charlie Kaufman when he visited Seattle to promote Adaptation. I met him again when he came back to talk about Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. About a week and a half ago, when he returned to Seattle to discuss his fantastic new movie Synecdoche, New York,

Looking Elsewhere

Browser, 11/5

First, the preview for Revolutionary Road... [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bOHf_EZlgg] HD here. The Browser: News & links to raise your eyebrows & furrow your brow. New headlines may be added as the day goes on. Stay tuned. Wow. It's 3:26PM on the