“The Spider and the Fly” went into a bar …

It’s a whole different thing when readers hear you read your work. A writer reading aloud is giving a performance, offering an audience something different from what they’d get reading to themselves.

Thanks to Vito’s in Seattle for providing the atmospherics for Lit Crawl’s “Crime and Punishment” reading.

Thanks also to memoirist Suzanne Morrison, author of “Yoga Bitch” and our gracious host; novelist Jennifer Murphy, author of “I Love You More,” and Urban Waite who came fresh from new-dad duties to read from his just-published third novel.

All the best people write about murder and lies.