matchless

“You made the world, the audience fall in love with this song with your matchless performance, so thank you.”

Throughout October, The Growler Guys will feature fresh beers from 30 breweries in Washington and Oregon, from Matchless Brewing in Tumwater, Thurston County, to Fort George in Astoria, Ore. This North Seattle taproom expects to go through 120 kegs this month, but vows to have at least 20 fresh hop beers on tap every day until at least Oct.

Everything that’s matchless about Raban’s work — his hyperacute eye for detail, his powers of synthesis, his mordant sense of humor, his vast reservoirs of knowledge and his love of travel — is there.

These sections are gems of historical synthesis and insight into what made his father tick, from his matchless devotion to his wife to his entrenched class snobbery, racism and anti-Semitism.

Unless he’s a matchless match!