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With Jennifer Jensen and Jakob Collins! Where we talk about: Lynda Barry; One! Hundred! Demons! Making Comics; What It Is; Picture This; Syllabus; The Greatest of Marlys And more!

A special Centennial episode with Longview 23 Club members Cal Fowler and Abe Ott!  Learn more about them or contact the club here: http://www.longview23club.org/ Or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100067339691727  An image of the original 1924 log archway that Abe mentions in the podcast can be found on the library's digital archive here: http://contentdm.longviewlibrary.org/digital/collection/lvr/id/2164/rec/1 Learn more about Centennial celebrations here: https://www.longview100.org/ 

Where we talk about:  Buffalo, Wyoming;  Longmire (TV show);  The Cold Dish;  Death Without Company;  Kindness Goes Unpunished;  As the Crow Flies;  The Serpent’s Tooth;  Christmas in Absaroka County;  and more! introductory reading from "The Cold Dish."

Where we talk about the works of Nora Ephron, including: Everything Is Copy (HBO Documentary);  Wallflower at the Orgy;  Crazy Salad;  Heartburn (novel);  Silkwood;  When Harry Met Sally;  Sleepless in Seattle;  Mixed Nuts;  Michael;  You've Got Mail;  Hanging Up;  Julie & Julia;  I Feel Bad About My Neck;  and more! introductory reading from "Heartburn."

with special guest James Newkirk! Where we talk about: Ursula K. Le Guin's  "The Wave in the Mind,"  "A Wizard of Earthsea,"  "The Tombs of Atuan,"  "Solitude" (included in the anthology "Diverse Energies"),   "The Left Hand of Darkness,"  "The Language of the Night,"  "Is Gender Necessary?"  "Dancing at the Edge of the World,"  "Catwings" and: "Tales from Earthsea" directed by Goro Miyazaki;  "The Left Hand of Darkness" BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatization;  2014 National Book Award Speech video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2v7RDyo7os  text: https://parkerhiggins.net/2014/11/will-need-writers-can-remember-freedom-ursula-k-le-guin-national-book-awards/  introductory reading from "A Wizard of Earthsea." 

Where we talk about Toni Morrison! Including: "The Bluest Eye;"  "Beloved;"  "Home;"  "Song of Solomon;"  "Remember: the journey to school integration;"  "Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am" directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders;  "The Radical Vision of Toni Morrison" by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/magazine/the-radical-vision-of-toni-morrison.html and mention: "Miss Chloe: a memoir of a literary friendship with Toni Morrison" by A.J. Verdelle;  "The Toni Morrison Book Club" by Piper Kendrix Williams, Cassandra Jackson, Winnifred R. Brown-Glaude, and Juda Bennett. Introductory excerpt from "The Bluest Eye."

Where we talk about: The work of Susan Orlean: The Orchid Thief;  The Library Book;  Rin Tin Tin;  Dogs of War by Sheila Keenan; and more!

Where we talk about: RFID tagging;  These Precious Days by Ann Patchett;  Louise Erdrich;  Birchbark Books;  LaRose;  The Round House;  The Plague of Doves;  The Sentence;  The Birchbark House;  The Night Watchman;  Love Medicine;  The Beet Queen;  Tracks;  The Blue Jay's Dance;  Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country;  The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse;  Tales of Burning Love;  and more! Intro excerpt from the first edition of Love Medicine, 1984

Where we talk about: Armistead Maupin;  Tales of the City (1978 book);  Tales of the City (1993 TV miniseries);  More Tales of the City (1980 book);  The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin (2017 documentary);  and more!

Where we talk about: Herman Melville;  Moby Dick;  Bartleby the Scrivener; Billy Budd;  Herman Melville at Home by Jill Lepore: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/herman-melville-at-home ;  The Beige Moth blog: https://beigemoth.blog/moby-dick/ ;  In the Heart of the Sea;  Drifting Dragons;  and more!

Where we talk about: Seed Library;  NW Voices: http://longviewlibrary.org/nwvoices.php ;  David Rakoff;  Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish;  Half Empty and more! Our Friend David: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/472/transcript ;  Invisible Made Visible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P7V0UKySaI ;  Lindsey Ellis on Rent: https://youtube.com/watch?v=q0qfFbtIj5w ;  Article from 2020: https://www.timesofisrael.com/locked-down-open-up-to-david-rakoffs-defensively-pessimistic-wit/ ;  Poems to get you through hard times: https://www.oprah.com/spirit/poems-that-get-you-through-hard-times/all ;  Ira Glass on making the audiobook: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/books/david-rakoffs-last-deadline.html ; 

with Joanne Dallas, Austin Brigden, and Jakob Collins where we talk about: Story Walks;  Fatima's Great Outdoors by Ambreen Tariq;  Oi Frog! by Kes Gray;  Beverly Cleary;  Drop Everything and Read Day;  Henry Huggins;  A Girl from Yamhill;  Ramona the Pest;  Ramona and her Mother;  Beezus and Ramona;  My Own Two Feet;  Dear Mr. Henshaw;  Walking with Ramona: Exploring Beverly Cleary's Portland by Laura O. Foster;  https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/books/6456  Beverly Cleary Endowed Professorship: https://ischool.uw.edu/faculty-affairs/beverly-cleary-professorship  Corrections: Beverly Clearly was 104 when she died;  Becky refers to Beverly several times as "Ramona." :)  Excerpt from "Ramona the Pest" by Beverly Cleary, published by Harper Collins Publishers.

excerpt from "Long Way Down," by Jason Reynolds, published by Simon and Schuster. Where we talk about: the work of Jason Reynolds;  Long Way Down;  Ghost;  All American Boys;  Brendan Kiely;  Ain't Burned All the Bright;  Jason Griffin; Stuntboy, in the Meantime;  Raul the Third. His picture books are the "Vamos!" series: "Vamos! Let's Go to the Market," "Vamos! Let's Go Eat!" and "Vamos! Let's Cross the Bridge." Tired as F*ck by Caroline Dooner;  Breathing Fire by Jaime Lowe;  and more!

Where we talk about: The 2022 Our Shelf Reading Challenge;  www.longviewlibrary.beanstack.org ;  The 2022 Printz Award;  https://www.ala.org/yalsa/printz-award#previous ;  Library building restoration;  The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang;  The Bride Test by Helen Hoang;  The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang;  and more!

with Jennifer Jensen! Where we talk about: Carrie by Stephen King;  Carrie directed by Brian de Palma;  Maneaters by Chelsea Cain;  and more!

where we talk about: library news;  new library staff;  Becky and Austin's road trip;  Glacier National Park;  Deep Creek by Pam Houston;  Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy;  Pine Creek Lodge and the Montana Gang of writers;  Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison;  The Traveling Feast by Rick Bass;  The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Erlich;  The Meadow by James Galvin;  Outlawed by Anna North;  The Eagles of Heart Mountain by Bradford Pearson;  They Called Us Enemy by George Takei;  Longmire show and series by Craig Johnson;  and more!

with Austin Brigden where we talk about: Summer Reading 2021; East of Eden by John Steinbeck; other works by John Steinbeck; and more! Watch our Summer Reading Promotional Video here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZwyHlZ71-0 

With special guest Elizabeth Partridge! Recorded May 7, 2021 Where we talk about: Her work at Manatee County Libraries; Navigating the management of libraries during COVID; Audiobooks; Learning from the Germans by Susan Neiman; Radical Candor by Kim Scott; Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen; Devolution by Max Brooks; The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathi Appelt; The Bone Maker by Sarah Beth Durst; Talking to Strangers by Malcom Gladwell;      Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater;   All Rise by Nick Offerman; Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders;   And more!

With special guest Hiedi Bauer, poet & LCC professor, and Austin Brigden! Where we talk about: Hiedi’s background with poetry; the Salal Review; Hamilton; When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer by Walt Whitman; Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe; Kathleen Flenniken; Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats;   The Girl Who Goes Alone by Elizabeth Austen; Dolce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen; writing during the pandemic; Dear Heathcliff by Hiedi Bauer; Snapshots of a Daughter-in-law by Adrienne Rich; Addict by Hiedi Bauer;  and more!

with Austin Brigden and Chris Skaugset! Where We Talk About:  Poetry! Including work by: Jim Harrison;  Richard Hugo;  Kathleen Flenniken;  William Stafford;  Elizabeth Bishop;  T.S. Eliot;  and more!