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When WA was a country music capital — Stephanie Clifford's 'The Farewell Tour'

When you think about country music, places like Texas, Appalachia and Nashville probably come to your mind. Maybe you even know about California's "Bakersfield Sound." But the Pacific Northwest has a long country tradition: from honky tonks in Tacoma to radio shows in Walla Walla and dances at Whatcom County meeting halls.
- Libby Denkmann
Searching for home. Seattle author publishes first book of short stories

This week, Seattle’s Ronit Plank is releasing a short-story collection, “Home is a Made Up Place.” Plank is known as a memoirist. Her first book, "When She Comes Back," documented her relationship with her mother, who left Plank as a child to join a cult.
- Hans Anderson
Celebrate Black literature and history all year long at Seattle Public Library's Douglass-Truth Branch

Seattle is home to what some may consider a hidden treasure at the Douglass-Truth Branch of the Seattle Public Library: one of the largest collections of African-American literature and history on the West Coast.
- Katie Campbell
Poetry, book arts, and painting highlight our weekly arts picks

As we do each week, we're getting picks for arts & culture events to check out in the Puget Sound region. KUOW’s Kim Malcolm got these recommendations from writer Shin Yu Pai, who just this week was named Seattle's Civic Poet. She also hosts the KUOW podcast "The Blue Suit."
- Andy Hurst
Remembering Jonathan Raban, a travel writer in name only

The Seattle -based author floated down the Mississippi, sailed Alaska's Inside Passage, and documented failed homesteads in Montana, all while writing about being an outsider trying to figure out new places.
- Hans Anderson
Esteemed author and traveler Jonathan Raban has died

He was highly regarded for his travel writing but didn't want to be considered a travel writer.
- Paige Browning
From the Pacific to the Palouse, writers take on the Northwest's gloomy landscape

Evergreen trees shrouded in a light mist, a cloudy morning with an 8 a.m. sunrise, the churning sea, the rolling hills of the Palouse: landscape takes a central role in the anthology "Evergreen: Grim Tales and Verses from the Gloomy Northwest."
- Hans Anderson
'Relevance beyond the personal,' Seattle author recounts sexism, discrimination in medical field

As a young teenager, local author Patricia Grayhall recalls believing she was the only lesbian in Arizona. Her new memoir recounts her struggle to earn a medical degree, explore her sexuality, and weather the sexism and discrimination rampant in the medical field of the 1970s.
- Libby Denkmann
The complicated story behind the 'Anonymous' author of a young adult classic

For decades, a question about the young adult classic "Go Ask Alice" haunted this writer. Who was the author behind the "Anonymous" byline on the cover of the book?
- Noel Gasca
Hear it again: Anastacia-Reneé reflects on her time in Seattle

After more than a decade in Seattle, the former Seattle Civic Poet has left for New York.
- Hans Anderson

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