Two Hours of Music to Read To
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Zoom broadcast of the Sorrento party
“The best reading series in Seattle… People simply gather with their books and read… from young women in dreadlocks to walrus-mustached Kindle warriors. The hush, the gentle communion… permeates the alcoholic glow of the room.”
— Gary Shteyngart in Travel + Leisure
Christopher Frizzelle created the Silent Reading Party in 2009. During the pandemic, it became a Zoom party that the New York Times called “mesmerizing.” Now it’s back at the Sorrento, where it all started.
From 2007 to 2016, Frizzelle was editor-in-chief of The Stranger, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2014. In 2020, he founded FrizzLit and began leading the Quarantine Book Club, which he described in the Washington Post.