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Got your bookstore passport? Seattle launches 10-day celebration of indie bookshops

Seattle’s annual Independent Bookstore Day kicks off Saturday, April 26 with a slate of special events. But most participating bookstores actually give patrons 10 days to get their special passports stamped by almost 30 participating shops located across the region from Edmonds to Bremerton to Burien.
- Amy Radil
This 'ultra-wealthy' Seattle suburb inspired dystopian novel’s take on pleasure and privilege

Reading C Pam Zhang's "Land of Milk and Honey" is like walking up to the finest buffet while a strict personal trainer eyeballs every morsel you put on your plate. You want it, but you feel guilty for that wanting.
- Katie Campbell
Meet you where? Share your favorite places to gather around arts and culture in Seattle

Are you a Seattleite who loves the arts and culture? Are you also looking for your people, your community, your fandom? KUOW's newest podcast is for you.
- Dyer Oxley
'You Are Here' and you are writing. Readers get creative for National Poetry Month

This is the KUOW Book Club, and we're reading "You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World" edited by 24th U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. I'm your guide, Katie Campbell. I asked y'all to try writing a poem of your own — you delivered.
- Katie Campbell
Washington's libraries face 'deep and dramatic' funding cuts as Trump abruptly terminates federal grants

The Trump administration is notifying library systems across the country that grant funding is being terminated, despite pending litigation. The Washington State Library and Seattle Public Library are among them.
- Katie Campbell
A decade after 'The Really Big One,' this author imagines the devastation of the major quake

Emma Pattee's novel "Tilt" follows a woman who is 37-weeks pregnant when the Big One hits. Worse yet, the woman, Annie, is 37-weeks pregnant and at IKEA.
- Katie Campbell
What's the KUOW Book Club reading in April?

In partnership with the Seattle Public Library, the KUOW Book Club will read "You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World" this month.
- Katie Campbell
Memoirist Putsata Reang talks about the 'complicated love' for America, Cambodia, and Ma

This is the KUOW Book Club, and we just finished reading "Ma and Me" by Putsata Reang.
- Katie Campbell
Witchcraft and reproductive rights: The horror of Grady Hendrix's latest novel

"Witchcraft for Wayward Girls" is, in its most basic form, about unwed teenage mothers who are sent away to a "home" in Florida where they find a coven of witches in the woods. That's the short, fun version.
- Katie Campbell
Author Putsata Reang describes life as a refugee when 'you cannot go in the water or come up on land'

This is KUOW's book club, and we just read through the first half of Putsata Reang's memoir "Ma and Me."
- Katie Campbell

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