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Week in Review: drug law, election issues, and A.I.

Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with Axios Melissa Santos, Seattle Times Jonathan Martin, and KUOW’s Dyer Oxley.
Bill Radke

Kevin Kniestedt

May 19, 2023 / 1:22 pm
Hear it again: When WA was a country music capital — Stephanie Clifford's 'The Farewell Tour'

When you think about country music, places like Texas, Appalachia and Nashville probably come to mind. Maybe you even know about The Bakersfield Sound, a sub-genre of country music that sprang from California. But the Pacific Northwest has a long country tradition, from honky tonks in Tacoma to radio shows in Walla Walla and dances at Whatcom County meeting halls.
Libby Denkmann

Alec Cowan

May 18, 2023 / 9:01 am
Seattle joins effort to give young readers access to banned books

The Seattle Public Library has joined a national effort to make books more accessible to youth readers, even in parts of the country where books have been banned.
Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez

April 27, 2023 / 2:36 pm
Examining the role of guns and violence in the American West

Bryce Andrews grew up obsessed with the cowboy lifestyle. As a kid his parents would drive him from Seattle to Montana, where he shot his first guns on the prairie with his godfather. He eventually moved out to the Montana countryside, a city boy trying to fit in as a ranch hand.
Libby Denkmann

Alec Cowan

April 25, 2023 / 2:28 pm
The comedy and complexity of campus life: Sonora Jha's 'The Laughter'

The plot of "The Laughter" twists and turns around issues of Islamophobia, sexism, and the changing culture of campus life. Author Sonora Jha, a Seattle University professor, discusses her newest novel and why she chose to make her main character so unlikeable.
Libby Denkmann

Alec Cowan

Zaki Barak Hamid

April 10, 2023 / 3:18 pm
At the height of the KKK's popularity, one woman's story toppled its leader

In "A Fever in the Heartland," National Book Award-winning author Timothy Egan tells the often-overlooked story of the Ku Klux Klan's power in northern states and the testimony that brought down its most powerful leader.
Libby Denkmann

Hans Anderson

April 04, 2023 / 12:35 pm
Women now dominate the book business. Why there and not other creative industries?

A new study finds that women are excelling in the book business. Yet, they still lag in other creative industries. We search for an explanation why.
Greg Rosalsky

April 04, 2023 / 3:31 am
When WA was a country music capital — Stephanie Clifford's 'The Farewell Tour'

When you think about country music, places like Texas, Appalachia and Nashville probably come to your mind. Maybe you even know about California's "Bakersfield Sound." But the Pacific Northwest has a long country tradition: from honky tonks in Tacoma to radio shows in Walla Walla and dances at Whatcom County meeting halls.
Libby Denkmann

Alec Cowan

March 14, 2023 / 4:18 pm
Searching for home. Seattle author publishes first book of short stories

This week, Seattle’s Ronit Plank is releasing a short-story collection, “Home is a Made Up Place.” Plank is known as a memoirist. Her first book, "When She Comes Back," documented her relationship with her mother, who left Plank as a child to join a cult.
Libby Denkmann

Hans Anderson

March 01, 2023 / 8:34 pm
Celebrate Black literature and history all year long at Seattle Public Library's Douglass-Truth Branch

Seattle is home to what some may consider a hidden treasure at the Douglass-Truth Branch of the Seattle Public Library: one of the largest collections of African-American literature and history on the West Coast.
Katie Campbell

Angela King

February 27, 2023 / 10:03 am

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