Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Poetic Obituaries: Through her "Kim Ricketts Book Events," she brought

the most interesting and the most high-profile authors to town (and they were not always the same people), inviting readers to what felt like a literary party, with wine and food; sharp, funny, thorough interviews, and a chance to feel a human connection with the authors and their work and their other fans. Well before creating "events" around books became a mainstream enough practice to raise questions about it (should it cost money to see a favorite writer?), Kim was leading the way in figuring out how to do it right.

from The Christian Science Monitor: A heroine of Seattle's book community is gone--but her dream lives on

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