The title of EWU professor Paul Lindholdt's first poetry collection, “Making Landfall,” has a double meaning. “From the point of landfall, the land began to fall,” he said.
“Mulan” (2020) director Niki Caro will direct Neal Street and Amblin Productions’ upcoming co-produced adaptation of author Jess Walter's bestselling novel “Beautiful Ruins,” the studios announced Tuesday.
Local poet Dennis Held has released "Not Me, Exactly," his third book of poetry, a collection he hopes will start to bring a spark of joy back into the art form. By the time Held was 6 years old, his dreams of becoming a writer had already started coming into focus.
Since its 2005 release on Nickelodeon, Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko’s critically acclaimed animated series, “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” has held a special place in the hearts of fans everywhere – not to mention a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Author and radio personality Sandra Tsing Loh joined comedian Julia Sweeney Tuesday night in a virtual Northwest Passages forum to discuss writing, life and “The Madwoman and the Roomba,” Tsing Loh’s new book.
Spokane Falls Community College professor Irv Broughton’s latest poetry collections, “Feilding the Cap Cod Past” and “The Fires of Tangerine,” are filled with memories from his east coast childhood. “Harvesting the past,” Broughton looks back on the many adventures of his idyllic adolescence and the writers he met along the way.
Although Inland Northwest Opera’s 2020 season has been suspended, the company remains concentrated on finding innovative means of bringing opera to the inland northwest. Their new “Opera Gram” program will allow fans to book short driveby performances of opera standards while maintaining the safety of artists and audiences alike.
Author and radio personality Sandra Tsing Loh’s latest work, “The Madwoman and the Roomba,” covers one turbulent year midway on the journey of its author’s life. From January through December 2016, Tsing Loh takes her readers through a confessional, irreverent and self-deprecating account of modern midlife womanhood. On June 23, Tsing Loh will participate in a Northwest Passages Book Club virtual forum on her work hosted by comedian Julia Sweeney.
The latest installment of author and radio personality Sandra Tsing Loh’s autobiographical book series, “The Madwoman and the Roomba” covers its author’s 55th year, a time in women's lives she has always found to be underrepresented in popular culture.
Local poet Bethany Montgomery expresses her experiences through poetry and encourages others from underrepresented groups to do the same through her organization, Power 2 the Poetry.
“Managers say the darndest things,” father and son Steve and Carson Stauning said to themselves as they began co-authoring “The 30,000-Pound Gorilla in the Room.”
For Spokane Symphony principal trombonist John Church, the characteristic loudness of his chosen instrument resonates through areas of his life and personality far beyond music. During quarantine, the time he takes to piece together an outfit every morning still brightens his mood.
For local poet Janelle Cordero, writing is a nonnegotiable daily pursuit. She wakes up, sits down to a blank page from her endless supply of notebooks and proceeds to devote the best part of her creative energy to her art.
Auntie’s Bookstore is hosting a virtual event Saturday night promoting Aaron Bobrow-Strain’s “The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story.” The work earned Bobrow-Strain a 2020 Pacific Northwest Book Award.
Stephanie Land, author of “MAID: Hard Work, Low Pay and a Mother’s Will to Survive,” will participate in a virtual fireside chat hosted by KXLY’s Kris Crocker in association with the Women Helping Women Fund and its Women Helping Women 2020 Resiliency Campaign. The event will begin at noon on Tuesday.
Science writer Eric Wagner’s latest book “After the Blast” revisits the events leading up to and following the eruption of Mount St. Helens. Tomorrow will mark the 40-year-anniversary of that historic event.
A few years after moving to Spokane, local author Trace Kerr started to realize it was only a matter of time before she would break down and write a post-apocalyptic young adult novel.
Pottery Place Plus made its extensive gallery of local artwork available online this week for the first time. And, following in the footsteps of neighbor Auntie’s Bookstore, the artist co-op will begin its own curbside pick-up service.
Attorney, activist and now author Trisha Pritikin’s new book, “The Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices From the Fight for Atomic Justice,” is a compilation of oral histories gathered from Pritikin’s fellow Hanford “downwinders” and the testimony of 24.
Like many leaders in the performing arts world, Inland Northwest Opera general director Dawn Wolski has spent a majority of the past six weeks brainstorming with colleagues and trying to map out the steps necessary for producing live opera again in the community.
In 1993, Sean Owsley, now a longtime morning show anchor, started at KHQ Local News as a part-time video editor. At the end of May, after a career spanning nearly three decades, Owsley will step back from his role to spend more time with his family, and reset his sleep schedule.
Brooke Matson’s Jake Adam York Prize-winning collection of poems, “In Accelerated Silence,” is an exploration of grief. The work embodies a personal interrogation of the universe through which one might gradually come to terms with loss.
The New York Times bestselling author Jess Walter revealed the cover of his upcoming novel, “The Cold Millions,” on Twitter this morning. The book, Walter’s seventh novel, is slated for release Oct. 6.