Some poetry, a few college admissions essays, some writing from adults, and a lot more from kids. There is not a lot that this collection doesn't have. Hear of rusty bicycles, questions, holograms, flowers, and inflatable lawn ornaments.

— Simon Traub-Epstein, International Library of Young Authors

From the publisher: “Welcome to the latest edition of What to Read in the Rain, a collection of fiction, essays, poetry, songs and comics by famous Seattle writers and surely soon-to-be famous students from the Greater Seattle Bureau of Fearless Ideas! Each publication invites both adult writers from Seattle's unparalleled writing community and student writers from our dazzling array of free classes, clubs and workshops-taught by such creative forces of nature as Ben Gibbard and David Lasky-to contribute to an anthology unlike any other. This edition's theme is "growth" for two reasons- one, the publication of What to Read in the Rain is (like so many plants) a perennial event, and two, we've been busy opening a new tutoring center in Seattle's Yesler Terrace community.