Each year the Library hosts readings, lectures, and discussions by authors and other public figures. You may listen to many of these programs by subscribing to the Library's authors & events podcast or by downloading one of the audio programs listed below. Our archive goes back more than 10 years and includes thousands of podcasts of memorable Library events.
Lisa See: 'Shanghai Girls'
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Alan J. Stein and Paula Becker: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: Washington's First World's Fair
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Alain de Botton: 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work'
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Lee Child: 'Gone Tomorrow'
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Diane Wei Liang: 'Lake With No Name: A True Story of Love and Conflict in Modern China'
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'Seattle Noir'
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Poets Daniel Comiskey and Chris Putnam: 'Crawlspace'
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2009 Seattle Reads 'My Jim': Main Event with Nancy Rawles
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Lynda Mapes: 'Breaking Ground: The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the Unearthing of Tse-whit-zen Village'
Lynda Mapes presented a program about the excavation of the Tse-whit-zen Village of the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe in Port Angeles, one of the largest and oldest Indian village sites ever found in this region. Recorded on May 17, 2009.
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2009 Seattle Reads 'My Jim': Contemporary African-American Writing
Two authors, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Attica Locke, discussed contemporary African-American writing on May 15, 2009 at the Central Library.
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