Keep Christmas weird in Seattle: Listen to 'A Rogue's Christmas'
For the past eleven years the crew of Town Hall Seattle’s "Short Stories Live" series has presented a celebration of storytelling they call "A Rogue’s Christmas."
Curator Jean Sherrard chooses seasonally-appropriate readings. It’s always a festive, thought-provoking and slightly devious gathering — just the thing to keep Christmas weird in Seattle.
This year’s readings include “The Fruitcake Theory” and “Christmas in Qatar” by Calvin Trillin, “You Better Not Cry” by Augusten Burroughs, “Christmas Every Day” by William Dean Howells, “A Christmas Spectacle” by Robert Benchley, “Three Wise Guys,” by Sandra Cisneros, and “Christmas Cracker” by Jeanette Winterson.
Taproot Theatre hosted the event on December 10. Sonya Harris recorded the proceedings. The readers include Paul Dorpat, Jean Sherrard, Kurt Beattie, Bill Ontiveros and Marianne Owen.
From all of us at Speakers Forum, best wishes for happy holidays and a healthy and prosperous 2018.
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John O'Brien
Senior Producer, All Things Considered
John O’Brien is KUOW's All Things Considered Senior Producer. He spends his days setting up interviews with newsmakers on subjects from politics and public health to arts and culture. John learned to make radio starting in 2006 as an intern on KUOW’s The Conversation with Ross Reynolds.
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