New owners, same local feel: Elliott Bay Book Co. changes hands Seattle's beloved Elliott Bay Bookstore is changing ownership for only the second time in its 49 year history.
Speakers Forum A wild literary ride from rural Vancouver Island to Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility ‘All anybody wanted to talk about was the pandemic, which I resisted for about a week, and then I realized we all need to talk about the pandemic. It's not even like it was the elephant in the room. It's like it was the room. It was unavoidable.’
Speakers Forum ‘What will I carry forward?’ A journey through wilderness, dementia, and memory ‘It took her some time to find her voice, but when she did she said three careful words, it’s so beautiful.’
Speakers Forum One man’s story of the scourge of child sexual abuse ‘In the equation of institutional sexual abuse, the constant is the abuser. There's always going to be a certain percentage of child sex abusers in the population.’
Speakers Forum In honor of women: poetry and music of struggle and joy One poet asks, ‘Will you not open this door for me? My hand is exhausted from knocking at your door.’
Soundside Adulting 101: Tap into your inner child Throughout this pandemic many of us have dipped into nostalgia and tapped into childhood to cope. Borrowing from the past can be helpful, but it can also be really hard to go back there. That’s where inner child work comes in.
Speakers Forum DEI ’R’ US: Setbacks and progress on the road to belonging at work ‘It’s not going to happen in my lifetime. We are working to a future that we will not live to see. That’s what this work is about, and the healing is knowing that we’re doing it together.’
Soundside More than books and mortar: Seattle Public Library's next chapter Seattle Public Library's new Chief Librarian Tom Fay shares his vision for the future of the institution.
Speakers Forum Can INTOIT moments bridge our partisan divide? Perhaps, if we seek them out ‘It's a different kind of approach and different kind of exchange that I know that we can do because I've seen it, and it's growing. It begins with a different definition of listening. Listening is about showing people they matter.’
Speakers Forum Telling modern world history with Africa at the center 'This, I argue, is the beginning of the Age of Exploration, the Age of Discovery, and thereby, the start of the modern world.’
