A Literary Salon at the Hugo House and Amanda Knox
A literary salon is a gathering in which a host brings people together to listen to and talk about prose and poetry, typically with the people who wrote said prose and poetry. This last Wednesday I had the opportunity for the first time to participate in one, at the Hugo House in downtown Seattle. The Hugo House is a non-profit community center for the writing community of Seattle. It has a number of programs for new writers and it is a great institution for the local literature. This was my first time at their new location: the Hugo House used to be in a previously residential house in a somewhat improvised fashion, but now they occupy the ground floor of a new building in Capitol Hill (the "bohemian" neighborhood in Seattle and quite an appropriate location for a writing community center) in a much better setup. In addition to a small bar, various small rooms for writers and lots of bookshelves, there is a small theater, the Lapis Theater. "Collections: a Live Magazine...