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KUOW, Seattle Public Library Book Talks continue with 'Coast Salish punk' Sasha LaPointe

The KUOW Book Club is continuing our series of live author talks in partnership with the Seattle Public Library with writer and artist Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe. We'll be reading her celebrated essay collection "Thunder Song."
- Katie Campbell
Author Coll Thrush interprets PNW history through the wreckage of colonialism

The KUOW Book Club read "Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific" by Coll Thrush in February. Thrush joined KUOW's Katie Campbell live at Seattle Central Library Thursday to talk about how shipwrecks brought settlers and Indigenous peoples suddenly, violently together — and how we’ve made sense of time and space through the wreckage.
- Katie Campbell
This novel about family drama is so good you may want to re-read it immediately

Allegra Goodman's new novel is called This Is Not About Us, but critic Maureen Corrigan says that title is coy: Readers are bound to see aspects of themselves and their families in these pages.
- Maureen Corrigan
Thomas Mallon's 'Fellow Travelers' is a must for readers and Seattle Opera fans alike

Reading Thomas Mallon's 2007 novel, "Fellow Travelers," I couldn't help but think it was always destined to become an opera.
- Katie Campbell
Years ago, novelist Tayari Jones snuck into a writing class. It changed her life

Jones' new novel, Kin, is set in 1950s Louisiana and Atlanta, and tells the story of two young women who grow up next door to each other without their mothers.
- Tonya Mosley
Why Gavin Newsom refuses to be a 'bystander' in this political moment

What does the Democratic leader see for himself in the years to come?
- Jonaki Mehta
History of mixed-race children orphaned in Germany after WWII inspires new novel by Sadeqa Johnson

NPR's Emily Kwong speaks with Sadeqa Johnson about her new novel THE KEEPER OF LOST CHILDREN and discovering the story of mixed-race children who were left in German orphanages following World War II.
- Elena Burnett
Facing a mental health crisis, an NJ school pulled a beloved novel from English class

Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao was removed from an English class at the public school. PEN America says it's part of a trend of scrubbing literature dealing with uncomfortable topics.
- Anastasia Tsioulcas
Michael Pollan says AI may 'think' — but it will never be conscious

"Consciousness is under siege," says author Michael Pollan. His new book, A World Appears, explores consciousness on both a personal and technological level.
- Terry Gross
Carla Hayden recommends books by Black authors from 2016 that resonate today

We're continuing to celebrate Black History Month by looking back at 2016, a year that brought big moments in the culture.
- Elena Burnett

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