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A WA city council might give itself the power to ban library books
The Liberty Lake proposal would usurp the library board of trustees’ policy-making control, including decisions about which titles to stock.
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ArtSEA: Seattle’s Cinerama gets a new name and opening date
Plus, artful ways to battle the Big Dark, local author readings and King Street Station’s new arts space.
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Fall Arts: A Seattle poet’s new novel on immigration, inheritance
E.J. Koh turns to fiction for the first time with The Liberators, which follows a Korean family through history, trauma and forgiveness.
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ArtSEA: A ghosthunter’s guide to the Seattle Art Museum
Plus, skulls in Westlake Center, spooky theater shows and a sensational new short story collection.
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WA authors are teaching AI how to write — without their consent
Companies like Meta and Bloomberg draw upon a database of 191,000 books to train the tools. Local writers aren’t happy, and lawsuits are in the works.