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Dear Seattle Restaurants: Name a Sandwich After Me, Please

Posted Fri, 06/04/2010 - 7:10pm by Ryan Boudinot

I have no idea who Cal Anderson is, or was, but I think it's pretty great he had a park named after him. Whoever that Yesler guy was must have been cool to have a whole street named after him. And Denny must be smiling upon us from Heaven, proud of the fact that he not only has a way named after him, but a triangle as well.

This is how I'd like to be remembered in Seattle. I'd like a sandwich named after me.

Congratulations on MFA Program Acceptances

Posted Wed, 04/21/2010 - 11:01am by Ryan Boudinot

I believe that getting an MFA is one of the best things a writer can do, and I’m always foisting this opinion upon writers who seek my advice as a Hugo House writer-in-residence. It was with great pleasure, then, that I learned that three writers who’ve consulted with me in my storage closet office at the House have recently been accepted to MFA programs.

What's the Worst That Could Happen?

Posted Thu, 01/14/2010 - 10:30am by Ryan Boudinot

One of my all-time favorite short stories is “Sea Oak” by George Saunders. You can find it in his collection "Pastoralia" or in "The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories." I first read it in The New Yorker some years ago and re-read it at least once a year. It’s about a guy who supports his extended family by working at a sort of male equivalent to Hooters, an aeronautical themed restaurant called Joysticks.

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