Charles D’Ambrosio’s writing is unforgettable. It stamps itself to your brain the way light stamps itself to your eyes. He is the best writer ever to come out of Seattle—he writes better fiction than Raymond Carver did, he writes better nonfiction than Mary McCarthy did—but we have not seen him in these parts for years. Since publishing the essay collection Loitering, he’s been busy teaching at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and working on a novel. On this night, he returns to the city where he was born with new writing commissioned by Hugo House under the theme "Behind Closed Doors," which is a great theme. He’ll be joined by the writers Anthony Swofford (Jarhead) and Mitchell S. Jackson (Survival Math) as well as R&B singer JusMoni. by Christopher Frizzelle