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Men are reading less. Reading less than women, not reading as much as before. But Author Daniel James Brown has got the key.

This week we’re getting lit with Author Daniel James Brown and tackling the ~discourse~ to find out how authors like him are writing authentic men, complex men. Plus we give you a ton of recommendations of books and authors that will make anybody want to read.

If you need some help filling that book shaped void, here’s Daniel James Brown and Katie’s Recommended If You Liked (RIYL): 

• The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides
• Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer
• The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
• Tim Egan

Ok, your turn! Tell us what to do after ugly-crying over The Boys in The Boat. Send us your picks--books, movies, exhibits, events whatever fills that space. Email [email protected].

What we read about when we talk about men not reading:

• The Anxiety Plaguing Male Fiction Writers - Vulture
• Why Did the Novel-Reading Man Disappear? - The New York Times
• The Real Reason Men Should Read Fiction - The Atlantic
• We're Doing ‘Men Don’t Read Books' Discourse Again. Here's What We're Missing - GQ 
   

Event recommendations from this week’s episode:
Livewire with Luke Burbank: Mohanad Elshieky, R. Eric Thomas, and The Brudi Brothers at Benaroya Hall on December 5th
 

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Before the bestsellers, before one of her bestsellers became a movie, before Meryl Streep (!) played her in that movie...author Susan Orlean started her career in Portland, writing for the Willamette Week and the now-defunct Paper Rose. Orlean writes about her love of the PNW (among other things) in her new memoir Joyride. 

Orlean talks with Katie Campbell about finding mentorship as a writer, the changing landscape of long-form journalism, and more in this bonus episode of Meet Me Here. 

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Meet Me Here listeners, if you still don't have any plans for this weekend, fear not. The Weekend Warmup is here to help with a whole bunch of ideas for fun things to do around the region this weekend.

Hosted by KUOW's Jason Megatron Burrows. 

LINKS: 

• SIFF Cinema Italian Style 2025
• Sew, Quilt, Needlework, Craft, Expo & Festival in Puyallup
• Gobble Up Northwest! - Urban Craft Uprising
• Seattle International Auto Show
• The 2025 DB Cooper Conference
• Seattle Kraken vs San Jose Sharks
• Gilman Village 2025 Winter Fest
• Grit City Comic Show
• UW Huskies Men’s Football vs Purdue
• Death and Music | Town Hall Seattle

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“There’s no right or wrong way to look at art,” according to arts writer Jas Keimig.   Which is good news because there’s a lot of art at the Telephone exhibit at both locations of Base Camp Studios in Belltown. 

Jas explains how the exhibit was inspired by the kid’s game telephone, that game where you tell someone something and then they tell the next person and so on. When the final person has been told, that person says what they heard and everyone compares how the message changed as it was passed along. Jas says the game of telephone exists in different ways all around the world.

Since the exhibit spans two different locations, Jas suggests how to approach it. One tip: if Telephone seems overwhelming, think about memes and how often you alter them and send them in the group chat, and how memes can communicate everything from a simple response to more complex feelings. Then, think of the pieces of art in the exhibit as if they were memes. 

In other words: whether you realize it or not, you’re playing a version of the game telephone pretty regularly. And the exhibit Telephone is a fun, clever, artist-imagined way of demonstrating how we’re all riffing off each other, all the time. 

Also recommended in this episode:

Drag performer Dina Martina has been doing her Seattle holiday show for 25 years. Meet Me Here host Jeannie Yandel is a huge fan and says, “Her shows are surreal and hilarious and some of the best, weirdest theater I've ever seen.” The Dina Martina Christmas Show runs from December 5-24 at Union Arts Center.  

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Meet Me Here listeners, if you still don't have any plans for this weekend, fear not. The Weekend Warmup is here to help with a whole bunch of ideas for fun things to do around the region this weekend.

Hosted by KUOW's Jason Megatron Burrows. 

LINKS:

• Port Gamble Ghost Conference
• Best of the Northwest Fall Show 2025 - Seattle
• NW's Largest Garage Sale & Vintage Sale
• Brew: A Clue-Themed Winter Beer Festival
• America's Test Kitchen Live at Food Fight with Rachel Belle
• GeekGirlCon - 15th Year!
• Captain Slinky Presents Oddmall Emporium of The Weird
• Light the Forest: Pilchuck Glass School
• Seahawks vs. Cardinals
• SIFF Talking Pictures: Ken Jennings presents Quiz Show

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There’s no getting around it. It’s here … the big dark. Every year, Northwesterners battle with shorter and shorter days, and longer and longer nights. It’s cold, it’s wet, it’s dark. It’s kind of a bummer. But it doesn’t have to be! 

All three Meet Me Here co-hosts join forces to share suggestions for defeating the Big Dark by getting out and immersing yourself in some great local arts and culture events. 

• The Geometry of Light - Seattle Asian Art Museum
• Netse Mot: One Heart, One Mind Gathering - The Paramount, Nov 18
• A Evening with David Sedaris - Benaroya Hall, Nov 16
• Yume Kitasei w/ Katie Campbell on Saltcrop, - Elliot Bay Books, Dec 7
• "Holidaze" Black Night Market - Tacoma Armory, Dec 1 and Dec 6
• Julefest - Poulsbo, Dec 6

Where’s your favorite place to meet up around arts and culture in the region? Drop us a line at [email protected]. 

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Meet Me Here listeners, if you still don't have any plans for this weekend, fear not. The Weekend Warmup is here to help with a whole bunch of ideas for fun things to do around the region this weekend.

Hosted by KUOW's Jason Megatron Burrows. 

LINKS:

• Seattle Short King Contest
• Seattle Kraken vs NY Rangers - Sat 11/1
• Short Run Comix Festival
• Seattle Opera - The Pirates of Penzance
• Brewallup 2025
• Washington State Toy Show
• Sea-Meow Convention
• 2025 MLS Cup Playoffs - Seattle vs Minnesota - Mon 11/3
• Seattle Kraken vs Chicago Blackhawks - Mon 11/3
• Seattle Welcome Day - Tues 11/4

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS:

• Nov. 1 — El Centro de la Raza
• Nov. 1 — Phinney Center
• Nov. 1 — Shoreline Recreation Center
• Nov. 1 & 2 — Seattle Center
• Nov. 1 & 2 — Town Hall Seattle (ticketed event)
• Nov. 2 — Tacoma Art Museum

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There’s more to horror than Stephen King and it’s about time we all started reading it.

This week we’re hitting the books with Roxanne Guiney, owner of Haunted Burrow Books in Seattle, and local author Sadie Hartmann, aka Mother Horror, about the new era of horror authors and how they're revolutionizing the genre. Plus, we tell you about the book you’ll definitely want to add to your nightstand.

And… if you need some help filling that book shaped void, here’s Roxanne, Sadie and Katie’s Recommended If You Liked (RIYL):

• The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica
• What Hunger by Catherine Dang
• The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim
• The Lamb by Lucy Rose
• Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder
• Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
• Full Brutal by Kristopher Triana
• The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya
• 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered by Sadie Hartmann
• Feral and Hysterical: Mother Horror’s Ultimate Reading Guide to Dark and Disturbing Fiction by Women  by Sadie Hartmann
• Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

And of course, go to Haunted Burrow Books for Roxanne’s recommendations https://www.instagram.com/hauntedburrowbooks and follow Sadie’s IG for even more recommendations (from, like, a real person…) https://www.instagram.com/mother.horror/ 

Event recommendations from this week’s episode:

Author Susan Orlean, with Claire Dederer on Friday, November 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM

https://ticketing.townhallseattle.org/events/019861e7-ffac-fb24-c69a-e94753846e32 

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In time, people can be like sequoia trees.

That's the premise of the new graphic memoir by artist and writer Jeremy Collins.

The memoir is called Eventually A Sequoia: Stories of Art, Adventure and the Wisdom of Giants.

In this bonus episode, Jeannie Yandel talks with Jeremy about how ten years of travel became this graphic memoir, and the role time played in his travels and the making of the book. 

And yes, actual sequoias -the largest trees on earth - show up in the book too. Jeremy even climbs one.

Jeremy will be in town on Monday October 27th to bring audience members into his process of writing and artmaking with an evening of performance art and cinematic visuals. That's followed by a conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning graphic memoirist Tessa Hulls. It starts at 6:30 pm at the Mountaineers Program Center in Seattle. 

Eventually A Sequoia with Jeremy Collins and Tessa Hulls, October 27 from 6:30-8:30 pm 

Eventually A Sequoia: Stories of Art, Adventure, and the Wisdom of Giants 

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Meet Me Here listeners, if you still don't have any plans for this weekend, fear not. The Weekend Warmup is here to help with a whole bunch of ideas for fun things to do around the region this weekend.

Hosted by KUOW's Jason Megatron Burrows. 

LINKS:

• Tacoma Holiday Festival
• Dustin Nickerson at the Neptune
• Seattle Kraken vs Edmonton Oilers
• 2025 PSMS Annual Wild Mushroom Show
• Seattle Coffee Festival
• AI & Democracy - Women’s University Club

SPOOKY STUFF: 

• Washington State Horror Con
• Fashionably Undead: The Goopening
• KEXP Kids' Halloween Dance Party
• Pumpkin Bash - Woodland Park Zoo
• The Museum of Fright
• GWAR | Showbox Presents

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