Library Podcasts
Each year the Library hosts readings, lectures, and discussions by authors and other public figures. You may watch video recordings of recent programs on our YouTube channel. Our archive of audio recordings goes back more than 10 years and includes thousands of memorable Library events.
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Michael Perry discusses his humorous novel 'The Jesus Cow'
With his eye (and ear) for the comical elements of contemporary rural life, New York Times-bestselling author Michael Perry turns to fiction with "The Jesus Cow," an affectionately skewed and big-hearted depiction of one miraculous bovine and the chaos it unleashes.
Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 28.59MB] [Play time: 01 hr 02 min]
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2015 Writers in the Schools - celebrating high school students and their writing! This is the second of two podcasts, our first podcast featured elementary and middle-school students.
Elementary, middle and high school students share their own writing. Introduced by the adult authors they've worked with all year, students share their wonderful poetry, prose, and comics.
Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 36.88MB] [Play time: 01 hr 20 min]
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2015 Writers in the Schools - celebrating elementary and middle-school students and their writing! This is the first of two podcasts, the next podcast will feature high school students.
Elementary, middle and high school students share their own writing. Introduced by the adult authors they've worked with all year, students share their wonderful poetry, prose, and comics.
Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 33.95MB] [Play time: 01 hr 14 min]
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Lucas Mann discusses his new memoir 'Lord Fear'
Lucas Mann investigates the life and death of his enigmatic older brother who died of a heroin overdose when Lucas was only thirteen years old. -- In 'Lord Fear', the author examines his own complicated feelings about and motives for recovering memories of his brother's life. Through his investigation, he also comes to redefine his own place in a family whose narrative is bisected by the tragic loss.
Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 25.61MB] [Play time: 0 hr 55 min]
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2015 Seattle Reads - Peter Heller with Book-It Repertory Theatre present: The Painter
Book-It Repertory Theatre presents staged readings from 'The Painter' and author Peter Heller joins adapter Bryan Birch, director David Quicksall and cast for post-performance discussion. -- 'The Painter' recounts the story of famous artist Jim Stegner, as he struggles to manage the dark impulses within himself. He lives peacefully in rural Colorado, spending his days painting and fly fishing, until he encounters a brutal act of violence that rips his quiet life wide open. Recorded on May 16, 2015.
Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 39.14MB] [Play time: 1 hr 25 min]
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2015 Seattle Reads 'The Painter': Meet Author Peter Heller
Author Peter Heller joins a discussion with readers about this year's Seattle Reads title - 'The Painter.' -- 'The Painter' recounts the story of famous artist Jim Stegner, as he struggles to manage the dark impulses within himself. He lives peacefully in rural Colorado, spending his days painting and fly fishing, until he encounters a brutal act of violence that rips his quiet life wide open.
Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 27.57MB] [Play time: 1 hr 00 min]
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Ruth Kirk discusses 'Ozette: Excavating a Makah Whaling Village'
Ruth Kirk and Hannah Palin, UW Special Collections, show newly digitized footage of the decades-long excavation of Ozette Makah whaling village on the coast of the Olympic Peninsula. -- Makah families left the coastal village of Ozette in the 1920s to comply with the federal government's requirement that they send their children to school. By doing so they ended nearly two thousand years of occupation at this strategic whale- and seal-hunting site. -- Archaeologist Richard Daugherty took note of the site in 1947 and later returned at the request of the Makah tribal chairman. Full-scale excavations from 1966 to 1981 revealed houses and their contents. Led by Daugherty, with a team of graduate and undergraduate students and Makah tribal members, the work culminated in the creation of the Makah Museum in Neah Bay, where more than 55,000 Ozette artifacts are curated and displayed.
Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 28.28MB] [Play time: 01 hr 01 min]
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myHIVmoment presents a National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NYHAAD) discussion
Lifelong AIDS Alliance and the #myHIVmoment campaign present a lineup of speakers, including a positive youth panel, to celebrate National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NYHAAD). -- This event is the culmination of a variety of programming through the month of April related to NYHAAD. It features guest speakers working in the field, and a panel discussion with positive youth and youth accessing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and the intersections this has with HIV stigma.
Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 49.29MB] [Play time: 1 hr 47 min]
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Peter Coyote reads from ‘The Rainman’s Third Cure: An Unsentimental Education'
Celebrated actor, writer and Zen practitioner Peter Coyote reads from his second memoir, 'The Rainman's Third Cure: An Unsentimental Education.' -- His earlier memoir, 'Sleeping Where I Fall' (published in 1998) tells of his life in the heart of the counterculture with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, the Diggers, and the communes: The Red House, Olema and Black Bear Ranch.
Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 28.00MB] [Play time: 01 hr 01 min]
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Per Petterson reads from his new novel 'I Refuse'
Per Petterson tells a tale of two men whose accidental meeting one morning recalls their boyhood 35 years ago. -- Per Petterson is the author of five previous novels, including "Out Stealing Horses," which won the 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was translated into more than thirty languages. It was named one of the best books of 2007 by the New York Times Book Review and Time.
Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 29.90MB] [Play time: 1 hr 05 min]