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"It's not exactly quiet or cozy, but the Blue Moon’s literary credentials make it a must for book-loving drinkers: founded in 1934 and long a favorite of local writers forced off campus by a bar radius ban, it hosted Theodore Roethke and other locals, drew visits from Allen Ginsberg and Dylan Thomas, and remains a place where you can sip a Rainier tallboy and open a book of Beat poetry or the latest issue of Poetry Northwest." - Andrew Engelson