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frizzelle@thestranger.com

Christopher Frizzelle is the editor of The Stranger. He joined the paper in 2003 as the books editor, became the arts editor in 2004, and was promoted to editor in 2007. He has written features about psychosis, the effect of 9/11 on his military family, famous liars, hunting for magic mushrooms in Oregon, Miranda July's fiction, the music of The Shins, and creepy old buildings, among other topics. He is one of the authors of How to Be a Person: The Stranger's Guide to College, Sex, Intoxicants, Tacos, and Life Itself. He curates cabarets in rock clubs with writers and artists and hosts a regular silent reading party at the Sorrento Hotel.

Books Articles by Christopher Frizzelle

Section

Date

  • Books

    Bleeding from Strange Places

    Joan Didion Is the Most Ruthless Writer to Ever Write About Joan Didion
    Posted on 12/07/2011
  • Books Column

    Nightstand

    A Literary Review of an Anarchist Newspaper
    Posted on 08/03/2011
  • Books Column

    Nightstand

    Prepare for Humiliation
    Posted on 07/13/2011
  • Books Column

    Nightstand

    A Punk Rock Memoir by Someone Who Doesn't Know About Writing
    Posted on 06/29/2011
  • Books Column

    Nightstand

    Confronting Tao Lin's Publisher, Part One
    Posted on 06/22/2011
  • Books Column

    Nightstand

    How Do You Make Three Sexy Spanish Writers Boring?
    Posted on 06/01/2011
  • Books Column

    Nightstand

    The First Time Is the Last Time at Pilot Books
    Posted on 05/18/2011
  • Books Column

    Nightstand

    Janet Malcolm: Vicious Toward Idiots
    Posted on 05/11/2011
  • Books Column

    Nightstand

    Kim Ricketts Isn't Around Anymore, Damn It
    Posted on 04/27/2011
  • Books

    The Silent-Reading Party

    On the Unexpected Sexiness of Quietly Reading and Drinking in Public
    Posted on 04/15/2010
  • Books

    The Guts of Great Sentences

    James Wood, Zadie Smith, and Literature's Inner Workings (With a Gyro)
    Posted on 08/28/2008
  • Books

    Nextbook Disappears

    Seattle's Only Jewish Literature Organization Packs It In
    Posted on 07/10/2008
  • Books

    My Higher Power

    On Moby Dick, Jonathan Franzen, and Eternal Life
    Posted on 01/31/2008
  • Books

    What We Regret

    Ten Writers Look Back on 2007
    Posted on 12/27/2007
  • Books

    All the Broke Young Literary Magazines

    Minor Setbacks on the n+1 West Coast Tour
    Posted on 12/13/2007
  • Books

    The Collected Writings of Amanda Knox

    The Short Story That's Become Evidence in a Murder Case
    Posted on 11/15/2007
  • Books Column

    Nightstand

    Janet Malcolm, Gertrude Stein, and Underwear Night
    Posted on 10/25/2007
  • Books Column

    Nightstand

    Everything's Better with Sherry
    Posted on 10/18/2007
  • Books

    Enduring Gatsby

    The Whole Thing, Cover to Cover, in One Night
    Posted on 09/20/2007
  • Books Column

    Nightstand

    Raven's Rent
    Posted on 09/13/2007

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