Authors & Books Recorded Events
Watch and listen to recordings of discussions and readings by major, local, and up and coming authors. Learn more about your favorite authors, discover new voices and go behind the scenes to hear the stories behind the stories.
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Keith And Chenoa Egawa Discuss "The Whale Child"
This brother and sister writing team share the story of Shiny, a whale child that becomes a boy to help humans understand the harm facing the world’s oceans.
View Video (00:59:08) | Posted November 2020
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Jill And Sasha La Pointe Discuss Vi Hilbert's "Haboo"
The La Pointes will discuss the newly rereleased edition of Vi Hilbert’s Haboo, a collection of thirty-three stories and legends of the Lushootseed-speaking people of Puget Sound.
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Kelli Jo Ford Discusses "Crooked Hallelujah"
Ford discusses her acclaimed new novel, that tells the stories of Justine ― a mixed-blood Cherokee woman ― as she and her daughter move from Eastern Oklahoma to Texas in the hopes of starting a new life.
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Jasmine Silvera, Olivia Waite & Robin Bradford on Romance Novels
Popular local romance writers Silvera and Waite discuss their books “Binding Shadows" & "The Care And Feeding Of Waspish Widows" with Pacific Northwest librarian Robin Bradford.
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Nancy Pearl and Jeff Schwager discuss 'The Writer's Library'
Listen to our favorite librarian Nancy Pearl and noted-playwright Jeff Schwager talk about the books that shaped them and inspired them to leave their own literary mark.
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Akwaeke Emezi and Esmé Weijun Wang discuss 'The Death of Vivek Oji'
Award-winning writer Akwaeke Emezi discusses their new novel, 'The Death of Vivek Oji,' a propulsive story of family and friendship that challenges expectations. They appear in conversation with Esmé Weijun Wang.
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Laurie Frankel - Home Library Tour
Poet Laurie Frankel shows us her home library and introduces us to some of her friends.
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Cathy Park Hong and Vince Schleitwiler discuss 'Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning'
Cathy Park Hong talks with UW Professor Vince Schleitwiler about “Minor Feelings,” which explores memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America.
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Claudia Castro Luna - Home Library Tour
Claudia Castro Luna is the Washington State Poet Laureate (2018-2021). She walks us through her at home library in Seattle, WA.
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BJ Cummings, Cecile Hansen & Lynda Mapes discuss 'The River that Made Seattle'
BJ Cummings, author of "The River That Made Seattle: A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish" talks with Duwamish Tribal Chairperson Cecile Hansen and journalist Lynda Mapes.