The Salon got a write-up in the Seattle Weekly, in anticipation of our Bumbershoot of Shame event this Saturday at noon. Here’s a quote of me rambling about the event:

“Most people view it as being hugely therapeutic. Some of these [old diaries] literally have a lock on them! And then you read this intimate writing in front of an audience, and everyone’s laughing and shouting things back like, ‘Oh, I’ve been there!’ And then you realize that these intimacies, these secrets that we held so close in our adolescence, were completely universal. We have people between their early 20s and their 50s reading. These mortifying thoughts are all the same.”

Here’s the full article: Bumbershoot 2007: Salon of Shame: Teen Angst Becomes Grist for Local Literary Mill