Close Enough For Government Work? Robert Gates On Leadership In his varied career, Robert Gates has gone from CIA recruit to director; academic to president of Texas A&M University; Air Force veteran to U.S.... John O'Brien Play AudioListen 6 mins
Nancy Pearl Wants You To Read A Novel About One Of The NFL's Most Gruesome Plays Marcie Sillman talks with "Book Lust" author Nancy Pearl about her pick of the week, "The Throwback Special" by Chris Bachelder. Marcie Sillman Play AudioListen 5 mins
Forgiveness And Not Forgetting In The Wake Of A Horrific Seattle Crime In the summer of 2009 a terrible crime was committed in the South Park neighborhood of Seattle. Jennifer Hopper and her partner Teresa Butz were... John O'Brien Play AudioListen 6 mins
How Technology Is Transforming Human Perception Kara Platoni took a year off to travel around the world searching for cutting edge investigations into sensory perception -- including what the taste of... John O'Brien Play AudioListen 5 mins
Nancy Pearl Picks A Posthumous Memoir Marcie Sillman talks with "Book Lust" author Nancy Pearl about her pick of the week, "When Breath Becomes Air," by Paul Kalanithi. Marcie Sillman Play AudioListen 5 mins
Geraldine Brooks On Her Writerly Ways Geraldine Brooks, an Australian-American journalist and author, spoke at McCaw Hall in Seattle about her writing method. "I swim in a sea of words. They... John O'Brien Play AudioListen 41 mins
Future Uncertain For Open Books, Seattle's Poetry-Only Bookstore Bill Radke talks with former Washington state poet laureate Elizabeth Austin about Open Books, a poetry-only bookstore in Seattle. The owners of Open Bo... Andy Hurst Play AudioListen 7 mins
Seeking Energetic Poetry Lover To Buy Seattle Landmark The West Coast’s only bookstore devoted exclusively to poetry is up for sale. John Marshall, co-owner of Seattle’s Open Books, said after 29 years in... Marcie Sillman
Diane Rehm On Grief And Widowhood: 'There Is No Such Thing As Closure' Jeannie Yandel talks with longtime show host Diane Rehm about having to learn who she is without her husband, John Rehm. After 54 years of marriage,... Jeannie Yandel Play AudioListen 10 mins
Nancy Pearl Picks A Book For Magazine Fans Marcie Sillman talks with "Book Lust" author Nancy Pearl about "This Old Man," by longtime New Yorker fiction editor Roger Angell. Nancy calls it the pe... Marcie Sillman Play AudioListen 5 mins
