Literature as Religion, An Acrobatic Couple, and Book Reviews from Nancy Pearl

Megan Sukys/Dave Beck
03/10/2008

Seattle is one of the most literate cities in the nation. It's also one of the most unchurched. Today, the Stranger's Christopher Frizzelle shares his connection between the love of literature and lack of organized religion. We also get book reviews from Nancy Pearl.


At 2:08 p.m. – Susan Deborah King
In her newest collection, One–Breasted Woman, poet Susan Deborah King explores the reverberations of her experience with breast cancer and mastectomy. A visit to Guemes Island becomes a metaphor for the brevity our lives, and a broken eggshell holds unexpected illumination. King has been a Presbyterian minister, a psychotherapist and a writing teacher. Her previous collections are Tabernacle: Poems of an Island and Coven, which was a finalist for the Minnesota Book award. King splits her time between Minneapolis and an island in Maine.

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• Holy Cow Press

At 2:20 p.m. – Life and Love on the Trapeze
In order to nurture healthy relationships couples have to reach out to one another, endure life's ups and downs, and sometimes do back flips to make things work. That's especially the case for Seattle trapeze artists Ben Wendel and Rachel Nehmer. Their partnership is both romantic and acrobatic.

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• Ben and Rachel profiled on NPR's All Things Considered
• Ben and Rachel appear in the Fremont Moisture Festival
• Seattle's School of Acrobatic and New Circus Arts

At 2:40 p.m. – Nancy Pearl Book Reviews
Our weekly visit with Public Radio librarian and author of More Book Lust, Nancy Pearl.

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• Nancy Pearl

At 2:50 p.m. – Literature as Religion
Seattle is one of the most literate cities in the nation. It's also one of the most unchurched. Christopher Frizzelle is the editor of The Stranger newspaper. Today, he shares his personal connection between the love of literature and lack of organized religion.

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• 'My Higher Power,' the Stranger