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Book Review: The Front Runner: The Life of Steve Prefontaine
Read more: Book Review: The Front Runner: The Life of Steve PrefontaineI discovered a few things about Pre just by being at the University of Oregon, but it wasn’t until I read Brendan O’Meara’s The Front Runner: The Life of Steve Prefontaine (published by Mariner Books last May) that I learned all the ins and outs of his fascinating life and…
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Lopez Island Novelist and Librettist Karen Fisher to Appear in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series on February 12
Read more: Lopez Island Novelist and Librettist Karen Fisher to Appear in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series on February 12Karen Fisher is the author A Sudden Country, one of the most stunning novels written about the Oregon Trail and the Pacific Northwest. When it first appeared, USA Today called it “an instant classic” and the Library Journal proclaimed it a “literary masterpiece.”
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Preview Review: Kim Fu’s “The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts”-Coming This March
Read more: Preview Review: Kim Fu’s “The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts”-Coming This MarchKim Fu is one of the most interesting, inventive, and masterly writers working in the Northwest today. In their forthcoming novel, The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts, they’ve crafted a taut tale that grows progressively more tense until you start looking over your own shoulder for ghosts—or leaks.
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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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