While you're here, and don't miss this 2005 piece by Hodgman in which he reviewed the audience at a Seattle reading. "Seattleites enjoy the two-part questions," he noted dryly. "Afterward, as we were doing the signing, the woman with the wild, gray hair asked me if I liked Jonathan Swift, not even waiting for the answer before cackling her way out of the room."
Christopher Frizzelle is The Stranger's former print editor, and first joined the staff in 2003. He is also the inventor of the silent-reading party, which has been happening monthly since 2009.