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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Thomas Mallon's 'Fellow Travelers' is a must for readers and Seattle Opera fans alike

Reading Thomas Mallon's 2007 novel, "Fellow Travelers," I couldn't help but think it was always destined to become an opera.
- Katie Campbell
Hot tips for Emerald City Comic Con and other events in March

From geeking out at Seattle's premier pop culture event, to a new take on a local art museum, and a talk with an indigenous punk rock author - check out these upcoming happenings in Western Washington.
- Dyer Oxley
Seattle Public Library intercepts Boston readers after Super Bowl bet

The real winners of Super Bowl LX are the Boston readers who will now be exposed to some Seattle culture.
- Katie Campbell

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