Megan Burbank

Graywolf Press “Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford,” writes Eula Biss in her book, On Immunity: An Inoculation. Biss, who will be discussing the difference between access to vaccines in wealthy countries like ours, and those with fewer resources. That idea—that it’s a privilege to decline […]

Norton If your true-crime-loving friends aren’t super-enthused to talk about what happened on True Detective last night, this might be why: The Pacific Northwest’s original queen of true crime writing, Ann Rule, has died. Rule’s family made the news of her death public today, and it’s been picked up by outlets throughout the region. Ann […]

Knopf “The Nervous Fliers Book Club will now be called to order!” A fear of flying coupled with a longstanding appreciation for travel means that I have a low-level obsession with airplanes. Some people pop Xanax before takeoff, some ritualistically touch the side of the plane before getting on, some hold hands with strangers during […]

Luis Argerich via Wikimedia Commons While the internet news cycle forecasts the Pacific Northwest’s doom, Mark Vanhoenacker is quietly writing beautiful prose that is the opposite of panic-inciting gloom, which is weird, given that it’s about something many people associate with terror and discomfort: flying. Vanhoenacker is a first officer with British Airways (for those […]