Library Podcasts
Each year the Library hosts readings, lectures, and discussions by authors and other public figures. You may watch video recordings of recent programs on our YouTube channel. Our archive of audio recordings goes back more than 10 years and includes thousands of memorable Library events.
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Jeffrey Eugenides, October 17
Jeffrey Eugenides reads from his new novel, "The Marriage Plot," one of the most highly anticipated novels of the fall, a story about college, literature and love.Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 23 MB] [Play time: 0 hr 00 min]
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Anne Enright, October 13
Anne Enright reads from her new novel, "The Forgotten Waltz." This is a story about obsession, passion, love, family ties, marriage and middle age.Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 21 MB] [Play time: 0 hr 00 min]
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Kristi Mathisen, October 12
Guest speaker Kristi Mathisen, managing director of tax and financial planning at Laird Norton Tyee, provides up-to-date information for all your estate planning needs.Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 44 MB] [Play time: 0 hr 00 min]
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Peter Stekel, October 11
In 2005, two mountaineers climbing above a glacier in the High Sierra found the mummified remains of a man in a WWII uniform. Author Peter Stekel talks about the events from his book "'Final Flight: The Mystery of a WWII Plane Crash and the Frozen Airmen in the High Sierra."
Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 19 MB] [Play time: 0 hr 00 min]
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Art Spiegelman, October 8
Join Pulitzer Prize-winning Art Spiegelman for a conversation with Nancy Pearl about Spiegelman's "MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus."Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 32 MB] [Play time: 0 hr 00 min]
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Paula Becker, October 5
Paula Becker from HistoryLink talks about how she used archives to research and write about the 50th Anniversary of Century 21 Seattle's Worlds Fair and the 1909 Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition.Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 18 MB] [Play time: 0 hr 00 min]
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Kim Allison, M.D., October 5
Dr. Kim Allison, Director of Breast Pathology at the University of Washington Medical Center, uses her experience as a cancer survivor to inspire others.Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 30 MB] [Play time: 0 hr 00 min]
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Craig Thompson, October 5
Craig Thompson discusses his work and shows illustrations from "Habibi." It tells the tale of Dodola and Zam, refugee child slaves bound to each other by chance, by circumstance and by the love that grows between them.Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 28 MB] [Play time: 0 hr 00 min]
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Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis, October 4
Debut novelist, Colin Meloy and acclaimed artist, Carson Ellis discuss their new book "Wildwood," the first book in an epic middle-grade fantasy series full of magic, wonder and danger set in an alternate version of modern-day Portland, Oregon.Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 26 MB] [Play time: 0 hr 00 min]
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Russell Banks, October 3
Russell Banks reads from his new novel, "Lost Memory of Skin." His new book tells the story of the Kid, a 22-year-old registered sex offender living in a homeless encampment under a south Florida causeway, and the Professor, a morbidly obese, brilliant, university sociologist doing research.Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 27 MB] [Play time: 0 hr 00 min]