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Fiction Writer Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum To Be Featured in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series April 9
Read more: Fiction Writer Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum To Be Featured in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series April 9Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum is the author of four short story collections and the novel Elita (TriQuarterly/Northwestern University Press, 2025), praised by author Laura van den Berg as a “brooding, atmospheric tour de force of psychological suspense.” Elita received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews and was named one of “50…
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‘Writing’ the Northwest on Film: The Cinematic Beauty of ‘Train Dreams’
Read more: ‘Writing’ the Northwest on Film: The Cinematic Beauty of ‘Train Dreams’Although it didn’t win the cinematography Oscar, “Train Dreams” is, hands down, my choice for the best-filmed movie set in the Pacific Northwest. Not just this year but ever. The heart of the film may be its theme of endurance despite loss or the dignity of work and an ordinary…
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Mitchell S. Jackson, Pulitzer Prize Winner from Portland to be Featured in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series March 12
Read more: Mitchell S. Jackson, Pulitzer Prize Winner from Portland to be Featured in the Cascadia Writers-in-Conversation Series March 12Mitchell S. Jackson won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize and the 2021 National Magazine Award in Feature Writing. His debut novel, The Residue Years, about life in a Black neighborhood in N. Portland, won a Whiting Award and The Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence. His essay collection, Survival Math:…
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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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