Gary Thompson will introduce, and read poems with, two well-known Northwest poets–Holly J. Hughes who is co-publisher of Empty Bowl Press and author of the poetry collection Hold Fast and Michael Daley, author of the collection True Heresies and managing editor of The Madrona Project. All three will read from Empty Bowl's Madrona Project: Art […]
Meet author, Rachel Linden, who writes for Berkley/Penguin Random House and has longstanding family connections to San Juan Island and whose work features local places such as Westcott Bay Sea Farm. Her newest book is Recipe for a Charmed Life. Georgia, a fiery determined woman, is searching for happiness, love and purpose after failure. Some […]
On the anniversary of the Tokitae's death, the author shares her experiences as someone who knew Lolita or Tokitae, the whale kept for 53 at Miami Seaquarium. An ethologist, behaviorist, author, naturalist, and rescuer, Marcia Davis has always been fascinated by animal behavior and conservation. She met Tokitae in 1988 at the Miami Seaquarium, where […]
Thom Carnell presents nineteen new tales in Tales from the Lazaretto, written during the Coronavirus Pandemic. These stories range from the poignant to the paranoid, from the heartbreaking to the heart-pounding, all designed to mesmerize and astonish. He writes with an unflinching eye. He'll be on hand to sign these and his other horror books.
A “breathtaking space opera” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) about a young tea expert who is taken as a political prisoner and recruited to spy on government officials—a role that may empower her to win back her nation’s independence—perfect for fans of N.K. Jemisin and Nnedi Okorafor. Kemi Ashing-Giwa has an undergraduate degree in integrative biology […]
Beginning with his own near death experience, Koch write anout consciousness. Christof Koch is a neuroscientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, and a former professor at the California Institute of Technology. He lives on San Juan Island. He writes about what science has learned about the brain basis of consciousness in the past […]
A book for being lost on real and/or imagined borders. A Field Companion for Wandering is an Anti-Lonely-Planet manifesto. Working to critique forms of commercial and colonial travel that have taken over our imaginations of the world. It is a sincere text that is meant to be read while traveling. A text that inspires contact […]
