If you had told me back in high school that reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov” could possibly make me a suspect in a homicide investigation, I might have kicked my feet a little more when my teacher assigned it.
The nonprofit slated to take ownership of The Spokesman-Review announced Wednesday it met its initial fundraising goal, triggering a monthslong transition period that will move the paper’s nearly 140-year ownership by the Cowles family to a community-operated news organization.
Shelby Van Pelt wrote a lot of “Little House on the Prairie fan fiction” as a child, filling up notebooks of stories of traveling west in a wagon with her cats.
For 20-some years I’ve been writing about the sheriff of the least-populated county in the scarcely populated state of Wyoming, but only five years have passed for Walt Longmire.
The bestselling “Remarkably Bright Creatures” comes to life on screen on Mother’s Day weekend. To celebrate this debut, author Shelby Van Pelt will join Northwest Passages Book Club in Spokane on May 12.
Jake Stevenson, one of my favorite characters of any novel I’ve read for Northwest Passages, is back as the king beekeeper in Eileen Garvin’s “Bumblebee Season.”
With bees as a story-telling vehicle, Eileen Garvin’s latest novel explores something anyone can relate to: the search for human connection for those feeling out of place.
It is impossible to tell whether the stain on Sue Aikens gray hoodie is diesel or coffee. There is what looks like an entire taxidermic bear standing in the middle of her cabin, which is to say, the middle of her bedroom-kitchen-living-room. Oddly, it isn’t out of place.
If you go What: David Guterson will talk about his latest novel, “Evelyn in Transit,” with Jess Walter on the Northwest Passages stage. When: 7 p.m. Feb. 5 Where: Gonzaga’s Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center, Coughlin Theater Tickets: $10 general admission online at
Dean Koontz’s new novel, “The Friend of the Family,” takes the best-selling author in a new direction as the master of suspense tries his hand at historical fiction for the first time, with a tinge of magical realism.
As a child growing up in north Seattle, “Snow Falling on Cedars” author David Guterson was keeping score on a chalkboard for his brother’s junior high basketball game. When another child, Ani Sakya, disagreed with the score, Guterson made an insult about the kid’s mom. Sakya threw Guterson on the ground, and Guterson’s arm broke in the fall.
