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KUOW Summer Book Club: Ijeoma Oluo discusses "Be a Revolution"
KUOW Book Club host Katie Campbell sits down with Seattle author Ijeoma Oluo to discuss her latest book, "Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--and How You Can, Too."
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| Posted July 2025
Moira Macdonald and Bethany Jean Clement discuss "Storybook Ending: A Novel"
Join Seattle Times arts critic Moira Macdonald for a discussion of her debut novel, "Storybook Ending" with food critic for The Seattle Times, Bethany Jean Clement.
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| Posted July 2025
Viet Thanh Nguyen and Shawn Wong discuss “To Save and Destroy”
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his new book with fellow author and scholar Shawn Wong.
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| Posted July 2025
"Dark and Tender": Aaron Johnson and Prentis Hemphill in Conversation
Join us for an interactive film screening with embodiment practice and conversation with Aaron Johnson and Prentis Hemphill.
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| Posted May 2025
Karen Russell discusses "The Antidote"
Join us to hear bestselling author Karen Russell discuss her new novel, a gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town.
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| Posted March 2025
Omar El Akkad and Ijeoma Oluo discuss "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This"
Award-winning writer Omar El Akkad discusses his new book, a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values.
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| Posted March 2025
Pico Iyer and David Guterson discuss "Aflame: Learning From Silence"
Join us for this conversation about the abiding clarity and calm to be found in quiet retreat.
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| Posted February 2025
Rebecca Nagle and Wudan Yan discuss "By the Fire We Carry"
Join us to hear Nagle discuss this powerful work that blends reportage and history and tells the story of the generations-long Native-led battle for justice.
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| Posted December 2024
Rachel Kushner presents "Creation Lake"
Rachel Kushner will discuss her new novel "Creation Lake" with local writer Phil Neel.
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| Posted November 2024
Paul Lynch and Paul Constant discuss “Prophet Song”
Winner of the 2023 Booker Prize, Lynch will discuss his highly original novel, which spins a terrifying, suspenseful vision of an Ireland careening towards authoritarianism.
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| Posted November 2024