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• Out & About: Sign-up deadline looms for Kid Fishing event

  April 8, 2012 in Outdoors on Page C10 OUTFISH – April 20 is the deadline to sign up kids ages 5-14 for the May 5 Kid Fishing event at Clear Lake. Up to 950 youths will be preassigned …

• Book Notes: For 99 cents, read Walter’s ‘Don’t Eat Cat’

  April 8, 2012 in Features on Page D6 As you may have heard by now, Jess Walter has a new book coming out in June. If you really can’t wait that long, the National Book Award finalist has …

• In addition to readings, Get Lit adds hoops, music, whiskey and pie

  April 8, 2012 in Features on Page D1 If the term “literary festival” conjures up a kind of droning sound – readings in tweed – this week’s Get Lit! Festival might startle you. It will have:

• Education Notebook: School to host author

  April 5, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page S5 St. George’s School will feature Sherry Jones, a historical-fiction author and journalist, at 7 p.m. Monday at the school’s Founders Theater. Jones will give a reading in costume from her … 1

• Book Notes: Get Lit! will tip off with HooPalousa

  March 25, 2012 in Features on Page D6 As we inch closer to the start of Get Lit!, new details emerge. Such as this one: The 14th annual festival will tip off April 9 with a basketball game.

• Book Notes: Time to grab tickets for Bass, Stellarondo

  March 18, 2012 in Features on Page D6 If you’re itching to see Rick Bass and Stellarondo on stage at the same time, good news. Tickets are now on sale. Bass, the nationally acclaimed author, and Stellarondo, a …

• Education Notes: Rogers High to stage ‘Charlie Brown’ play

  March 15, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page S2 Rogers High School drama students will perform “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” beginning Friday at 7 p.m. in the school theater. Additional performances are Saturday at 2 p.m., and …

• Book Notes: Betancourt will lecture at Gonzaga

  March 11, 2012 in Features on Page D6 Ingrid Betancourt, author and activist, will deliver Gonzaga University’s Presidential Speaker Series lecture on March 28. Betancourt was a candidate for the presidency of Colombia when she was kidnapped by … 1

• Book Notes: Give the gift of reading

  December 11, 2011 in Features on Page D7 Just a reminder: Books make excellent Christmas presents. You can customize them to every taste. And you can write an inscription on the title page that your descendants might stumble …

• Book Notes: Orlean, Whitehead top Get Lit! lineup

  November 13, 2011 in Features on Page D7 Some big literary names have been booked into Eastern Washington University’s Get Lit! Festival, coming April 11-15: • Susan Orlean, author of “The Orchid Thief” and the just-released “Rin Tin …

• Book Notes: Get Lit!, Big Read big hits

  May 8, 2011 in Features on Page D6 The Get Lit! and Big Read numbers are in, and they’re impressive: • An estimated attendance of 3,000 for Get Lit!’s 50-plus events.

• Book Notes: Hunt, Kirkpatrick, Dagg unite to tell Estby story

  April 17, 2011 in Features on Page D7 Many local readers already are familiar with the Helga Estby story. She was the woman who walked all the way from Spokane (Mica Creek, actually) to New York City in …

• The development of DiFranco

  April 15, 2011 in Features on Page C3 Whether you think you’ve outgrown Ani DiFranco, or never felt she was the right fit for you, it might be a good time to test that assessment. The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter …

• Get Lit! makes plans for 2012

  April 14, 2011 in Features on Page C5 This year’s Get Lit! kicks off with some good news about next year’s Get Lit!: There will, in fact, be one. Eastern Washington University has secured some “non-state funding” to …

• Book Notes: Get ready, get set … Get Lit!

  April 10, 2011 in Features on Page D7 Get ready for the busiest week of the year on Spokane’s literary scene. Get Lit! begins Wednesday. The calendar holds so many events – 55 workshops, panels and readings – … 1

• Book Notes: Poets share their ‘Story’ Friday at Chase Gallery

  March 27, 2011 in Features on Page D6 Here’s an event that combines poetry and art: a reading Friday at the Chase Gallery in conjunction with “Telling the American Story, History, Memory, Place, Story, Picture, Space.” This group …

• Book Notes: Big events planned for O’Brien book

  March 13, 2011 in Features on Page D6 Spokane’s Big Read is in full swing, with events ranging from theatrical adaptations of Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” to Vietnam-themed film screenings to various veteran-oriented discussions. I can’t …

• Book Notes: Get Lit! writing workshops set

  February 20, 2011 in Features on Page D6 Do you want to work on your poetry? Your nonfiction? Your playwriting? The Get Lit! writing workshops have been announced for Spokane’s premier literary festival on April 13-17.

• Book Notes: Writers might find inspiration from Kenower

  January 16, 2011 in Features on Page D7 Do you feel like your writing life needs a push-start? You might want to catch William Kenower’s talk at Gonzaga University on Saturday, 1 p.m., “Tuning Your Inner Ear: The …

• Book Notes: 2011 Get Lit! lineup taking shape

  November 7, 2010 in Features on Page D7 The 2011 Get Lit! headliners have been finalized, so we can tell you who’ll be appearing along with the previously announced Tim O’Brien and Ani DiFranco. Here’s the rest of …

• Book Notes: DiFranco tops Get Lit in 2011

  October 31, 2010 in Features on Page D7 Ani DiFranco will be the April 15 headliner at 2011’s Get Lit. Wait – Ani DiFranco? Isn’t she a singer-songwriter? Why would she be headlining the region’s premier literary festival? 1

• Final Get Lit! event at the Fox, not Bing

  April 21, 2010 in City Tonight’s Jazz Poetry Performance with Patricia Smith, the final event of this year’s Get Lit! festival, will be at the Fox Theater at 7 p.m. A column in today’s paper …

• Who will go to bat for books?

  April 21, 2010 in City on Page A1 If only Eastern Washington University had an alumnus in the NFL who loved books. Then maybe the coolest literary event around would have a rock-solid budget, and the grass at … 6

• Get Lit! lures Pulitzer-winning writer Richard Russo for Saturday’s headlining act

  April 11, 2010 in Features on Page D1 Back in the 1990s, Get Lit! headliner Richard Russo decided he wanted to become a full-time writer. His career as an English literature professor at small regional universities was taking …

• From Oprah author to standout poet, Get Lit! offers plenty of star power

  April 11, 2010 in Features on Page D7 Pulitzer winner Richard Russo may be the biggest draw for this year’s festival, but don’t overlook the rest of the slate, says Danielle Ringwald, Eastern Washington University’s Get Lit! coordinator. …

• Get Lit! readings put fatherhood in focus

  March 7, 2010 in Features on Page D5 We have some more details about the live taping of Public Radio International’s “Selected Shorts,” on April 16 at the Bing Crosby Theater as part of the Get Lit! festivities. …

• Smiley serves up laughs at Hollywood’s expense in latest novel

  April 16, 2009 in Features on Page C1 Jane Smiley nails the Hollywood movie culture so thoroughly in her latest novel, “Ten Days in the Hills,” she clearly must run with the producer-director-agent crowd, right? “No,” laughs Smiley. …

• Get Lit! Events

  April 16, 2009 in Features on Page C5 Here’s the schedule for the remaining events in this year’s Get Lit! literary festival. Call (509) 368-6594 for more information. Sustainability: Living Lightly, Living Well – Join author Paul Roberts …

• Word play

  April 9, 2009 in Features on Page C1 Most people consider literature to be a spectator sport – you know, sitting and reading. But the 2009 Get Lit! festival is, without a doubt, a participant sport. Eastern Washington …

• Get Lit! will offer kid-friendly events

  February 8, 2009 in Features on Page D6 When it comes to literary festivals, kids don’t normally come to mind. Who wants a bunch of adolescents messing around with all the stilton and syrah?

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