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When FDR’s Daughter Anna and Her Husband Ran the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Read more: When FDR’s Daughter Anna and Her Husband Ran the Seattle Post-IntelligencerA poignant, forgotten memoir evokes the heady days when FDR’s only daughter, Anna, and her husband, John Boettiger, ran Seattle’s Post-Intelligencer newspaper, before their “perfect” love failed.
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A Newcomer’s View of the Wild and the Changed in Today’s Northwest
Read more: A Newcomer’s View of the Wild and the Changed in Today’s NorthwestIn a selection of NW-inspired poems in her first collection, Seattle transplant Deirdre Lockwood explores the mix of wild and changed that characterizes the area today.
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Mystery Writer Matthew Sullivan to be Featured in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series November 13
Read more: Mystery Writer Matthew Sullivan to be Featured in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series November 13On November 13, literary mystery writer Matthew Sullivan will be the next featured author in the Writers-in-Conversation Series at the Cascadia Art Museum. Sullivan is the author if Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore and Midnight in Soap Lake. His writing has received numerous prizes and national praise.
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Memoirist Tina Ontiveros To Be Featured in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series October 3
Read more: Memoirist Tina Ontiveros To Be Featured in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series October 3Tina Ontiveros is a writer, teacher, and bookseller based at the foot of Mt. Hood, where she teaches writing and literature at Columbia Gorge Community College. Her memoir, Rough House—a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Book Award winner and Indie Next Great Read selection—explores themes of poverty, class, and generational hardship, drawing…
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The Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series Will Feature Seattle Nature Writer Adrienne Ross Scanlan on September 11
Read more: The Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series Will Feature Seattle Nature Writer Adrienne Ross Scanlan on September 11Seattle nature writer and “citizen scientist” Adrienne Ross Scanlan will be the featured author in the Writers-in-Conversation Series at the Cascadia Art Museum in Edmonds, WA, on September 11, 2025. Series host Michael N. McGregor will interview Scanlan about her work and writing life. The event begins at 6 p.m.
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A Heart-Piercing Look at the Disappearances and Deaths of Indigenous Girls in Northern BC
Read more: A Heart-Piercing Look at the Disappearances and Deaths of Indigenous Girls in Northern BCIf you were looking for the least visible and most vulnerable people in North America, girls from Indigenous families in the upper reaches of British Columbia would be at the top of your list. Living mostly in small towns and on native reserves in families ravaged by poverty, oppression, broken…
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Guest Review: Murder, Mental Illness & Mercy in Seattle
Read more: Guest Review: Murder, Mental Illness & Mercy in SeattleSometime during the night, a prowler in their quiet neighborhood spotted the windows the couple had left open on a hot summer night. The young man was homeless, unemployed, and going back and forth between jail, local courtrooms and mental hospitals…He was armed with a long knife and bad intentions.
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Review: Finding a Hybrid Hope in the Wilder Parts of an Urban Home
Read more: Review: Finding a Hybrid Hope in the Wilder Parts of an Urban HomeDespite many of the things she discovers and the often-dismaying statistics she reports, Scanlan infuses her book with hope. Not a false hope but an honest, infectious ability to see the good that lingers around us even though the pristine natural world is gone.
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Writers-in-Conversation Series Host Michael N. McGregor to be Featured Author in May
Read more: Writers-in-Conversation Series Host Michael N. McGregor to be Featured Author in MayMichael N. McGregor usually hosts the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation series, but for the last event in the series’ inaugural year, the museum has asked him to be the featured author instead. This will be the first opportunity to learn about and purchase his new book, An Island to Myself: The Place…
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