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  'Amazon can never be us.' How Seattle's independent bookstores have met the digital age

  Seattle Independent Bookstore Day is on April 25, kicking off 10 days dedicated to filling your shelves with books from local booksellers, like Estelita's Library and the 33 participating stores in the Seattle area alone.

  • Katie Campbell
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  How author Stephen Graham Jones' scary stories help us stay alive

  Author Stephen Graham Jones has summoned fear in the form of everything from an alien caterpillar to zombie wrestlers. He's used a few, let's say, more traditional scares in between, too, like werewolves and supernatural killing machines.

  • Katie Campbell
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  Finding the 'holy ordinary' with environmental author Terry Tempest Williams

  Terry Tempest Williams' new book, "The Glorians: Visitation from the Holy Ordinary," tries to make sense of the obscure meaning of moments in her life, from the personal to the universal.

  • Katie Campbell
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  KUOW, Seattle Public Library series continues with Seattle author's 'queer garden of love, grief, and longing'

  The KUOW Book Club is continuing our series of live author talks in partnership with the Seattle Public Library with writer and educator Molly Olguín.

  • Katie Campbell
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  Sasha LaPointe: The 'reservation riot grrrl' who's learning to be a 'language warrior'

  The KUOW Book Club read "Thunder Song" by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe in March. LaPointe joined KUOW's Katie Campbell live at Seattle Central Library last week to talk about being a Coast Salish punk and following in the footsteps of her iconic great-grandmother, Vi taqʷšəblu Hilbert.

  • Katie Campbell
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  Books vs. movies: Why adapting a hit novel can be a real 'Hail Mary'

  For nearly as long as movies have been made, books have served as inspiration — for better or worse.

  • Katie Campbell
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  Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson pitches $410 million library levy

  Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson and the head of The Seattle Public Library system are laying out their vision for a new $410 million library levy that’s expected to appear on the ballot this August.

  • Noel Gasca
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  Why you should judge a book by its cover, according to a PNW designer

  You know the phrase: Don't judge a book by its cover. I could not disagree more.

  • Katie Campbell
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  KUOW, Seattle Public Library Book Talks continue with 'Coast Salish punk' Sasha LaPointe

  The KUOW Book Club is continuing our series of live author talks in partnership with the Seattle Public Library with writer and artist Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe. We'll be reading her celebrated essay collection "Thunder Song."

  • Katie Campbell
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  Author Coll Thrush interprets PNW history through the wreckage of colonialism

  The KUOW Book Club read "Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific" by Coll Thrush in February. Thrush joined KUOW's Katie Campbell live at Seattle Central Library Thursday to talk about how shipwrecks brought settlers and Indigenous peoples suddenly, violently together — and how we’ve made sense of time and space through the wreckage.

  • Katie Campbell

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