Judy Lightfoot
Selected Interviews,
Reviews, Articles
(A complete
list of publications is also available online)
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Cover and Feature Articles:
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"Ellison's
Second Act," cover article on Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth, SEATTLE
WEEKLY June 1999. Reprinted in Spring 2000 Columbia Journal of American
Studies, and awarded "Excellence in Journalism 2000" citation by the
Society of Professional Journalists.
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"Birth
of a Joyful Noise," Sunday Arts section lead on Dark Midnight When
I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers, by Andrew Ward, SEATTLE TIMES
Apr 2000.
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Selected Author Interviews:
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Jeffrey
Eugenides (author of Middlesex), SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
Oct 2002.
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Alexandra
Fuller (Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight), SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
Feb 2002.
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Ethan
Canin (Carry Me Across the Water), SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
Aug 2001.
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Jimmy
Carter (Christmas In Plains), SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER Dec
2001.
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John
F. Callahan (editor, Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth), SEATTLE
WEEKLY June 1999.
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Selected Reviews -
Fiction:
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Duong
Thu Huong, Beyond Illusions, LOS ANGELES TIMES Feb 2002.
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Juliette
Harris and Pamela Johnson (eds.), Tenderheaded, SEATTLE WEEKLY
Mar 2001.
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Terry
McMillan, A Day Late and a Dollar Short, SEATTLE TIMES Feb
2001.
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Madison
Smartt Bell, Master of the Crossroads, SEATTLE TIMES Nov 2000.
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Frederick
Busch, Don't Tell Anyone, SEATTLE TIMES Oct 2000.
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Stanley
Crouch, Don't the Moon Look Lonesome, SEATTLE TIMES June 2000.
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Carlos
Fuentes, The Years With Laura Diaz, SEATTLE TIMES Dec
2000.
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Will
Self, How the Dead Live, SEATTLE TIMES Oct 2000.
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Colm
Tóibín, Blackwater Lightship, SEATTLE TIMES Aug
2000.
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Catherine
Bush,
The Rules of Engagement, SEATTLE TIMES Aug
2000.
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Anchee
Min, Becoming Madame Mao, SEATTLE WEEKLY June 2000.
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Jeffery
Renard Allen, Rails Under My Back, SEATTLE TIMES Feb 2000.
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Sena
Jeter Naslund, Ahab's Wife, SEATTLE WEEKLY Dec 1999.
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Pam
Houston, A Little More About Me, SEATTLE WEEKLY Oct 1999.
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Toni
Cade Bambara, Those Bones Are Not My Child, SEATTLE TIMES
Oct 1999.
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Selected Reviews -
Poetry (many posted at POETRY DAILY):
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"A
Book of Verse Spreads Holiday Cheer" (Roundup review: BH Fairchild,
WS Merwin, Paul Muldoon, Ellen Bryant Voigt, and Poems of the American
West), SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER Dec 2002.
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"Talk
of Sea-Town: What a literary magazine can do that a novel can't" (Review
of StringTown #5) SEATTLE WEEKLY Oct 2002
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"The
People’s Poet: Does poetry have to be dumb to be popular?" (review
of Billy Collins's Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems),
SEATTLE WEEKLY Sep 2002; posted and archived at ARTS
& LETTERS DAILY Sep 2002.
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C.
K. Williams, Adam Zagajewski, Claudia Rankine, Matthew Rohrer, Louise Gluck,
SEATTLE WEEKLY Jan 2001.
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William
Merwin, The River Sound; John Hollander, Figurehead; Eavan
Boland,
The Lost Land, SEATTLE WEEKLY Oct 2000.
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Anne
Carson, Men in the Off Hours; Jane Cooper,
Flashboat; Giacomo
Leopardi, Selected Poems; and J. D. McClatchy,
10 Commandments,
SEATTLE WEEKLY Apr 2000.
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Philip
Levine,
The Mercy; Frank Bidart, Desire; Anne Carson, Autobiography
of Red, SEATTLE WEEKLY Feb 2000.
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Albert
Goldbarth, Troubled Lovers in History (brief), SEATTLE WEEKLY
Dec 1999.
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Rita
Dove, On the Bus With Rosa Parks (brief), SEATTLE WEEKLY Nov
1999.
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Sam
Hamill, tr., The Essential Basho, SEATTLE WEEKLY Jul
1999.
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Henri
Cole, The Visible Man (brief), THE STRANGER Mar 1999.
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Adrienne
Rich, Midnight Salvage, SEATTLE WEEKLY Feb 1999.
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Selected Reviews -
Nonfiction:
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"Shocking:
How Thomas Edison Helped Develop the Electric Chair" (Review of Richard
Moran's Electrocutioner's Current), SEATTLE WEEKLY December 18,
2002
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William
Wong, Yellow Journalist: Dispatches from Asian America, SEATTLE
POST-INTELLIGENCER Jul 2001.
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Sam
Wineburg, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts, SEATTLE
POST-INTELLIGENCER June 2001.
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Diane
Ravitch, Left Back, and David T. Kearns & James Harvey, A
Legacy of Learning, SEATTLE TIMES Sep 2000.
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Christine
Hoff Sommers, The War Against Boys, and William S. Pollack, Real
Boys' Voices, SEATTLE WEEKLY June 2000.
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Thomas
Lewis, et. al., A General Theory of Love, SEATTLE TIMES May
2000.
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Clifford
Stoll, High-Tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in Classrooms,
SEATTLE
TIMES Nov 1999.