Northwest Passages Book Club

Bill Moos joins Northwest Passages to talk "Crab Creek Chronicles," a memoir recounting Moos' journey from the wheat field to the ball field and how he ushered in a lifetime of influential moves as athletic director at Oregon, Montana, and Nebraska after playing at Washington State University. Leading the interview is The Spokesman-Review's Executive Editor, Rob Curley, at the Montvale Event Center on April 14, 2026.

Sue Aikens joins Northwest Passages to discuss her memoir, “North of Ordinary: How One Woman Left it all Behind for Wilderness and Wonder in Alaska's Frozen Frontier,” which details a lifetime of resilience, reinvention, and the extraordinary power of choosing your own way through the world. Aikens, the breakout star of National Geographic's Emmy award winning, long-running TV show, “Life Below Zero,”(2013-2025) shares her journey of survival 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle with Spokesman-Review columnist Ammi Midstokke at the Bing Crosby Theater on March 11, 2026.

David Guterson, the literary heavyweight behind the 1994 novel "Snow Falling on Cedars" sits down with fellow Pacific Northwest author Jess Walter to discuss his newest book, "Evelyn in Transit" in a gathering of the Northwest Passages Book Club at the Coughlin Theater at the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026.

Dean Koontz, the bestselling novelist who has sold over 500 million copies worldwide, joins Northwest Passages for the program's first virtual conversation with a live audience at the Bing Crosby Theater with Donna Wares, Managing Editor for Enterprise & Live Journalism at Comma, conducting the interview on January 31, 2026.

Author Travis Baldree joins the Spokesman-Review's Northwest Passages book club to discuss "BRIGANDS & BREADKNIVES," the third installment of his #1 New York Times bestselling Legends & Lattes series.

Author Sonora Jha talks with Spokesman-Review columnist Cindy Hval about Jha's novel, INTEMPERANCE, at a gathering of the Northwest Passages Book Club at the Montvale Event Center Monday, Nov. 14, 2025 in Spokane, Washington.

Author River Selby visits the Northwest Passages Book Club to talk about her new book "Hotshot: A Life on Fire." Spokesman-Review writer Elena Perry asks Selby about fighting wildland fires in the live interview at the Montvale Event Center Monday, Oct. 20, 2025 in Spokane, Washington.

Poet and author Shann Ray appears at the Northwest Passages Book Club Tuesday, October 7, 2025 to talk about his newest work, "Where Blackbirds Fly." The book, a novel in five novellas, is a story about human intimacy in all its forms. Ray also writes in the field of social science under the name Shann Ray Ferch. Ferch teaches leadership studies at Gonzaga University. On the stage at the Bing Crosby Theater in Spokane, Spokesman-Review Managing Editor Lindsey Treffry will pose the questions in the interview.

Author James Patrick Thomas brought his memoir, "Atomic Pilgrim," to the Northwest Passages Book Club Tuesday, August 12, 2025. The book talks about Thomas' decades-long investigation into the use and spread of nuclear weapons, the harms of radiation and working toward peace. Thomas lives in Seattle. Spokesman-Review reporter Nick Gibson poses the questions in the interview.

Author Jess Walter, debuts his book "So Far Gone" at Northwest Passages in Spokane, Washington Tuesday, June 10, 2025. The event is moderatoed by Spokesman-Review Editor Rob Curley at the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center at Gonzaga University where several of Jess Walter's colleagues:  Anthony Doerr, Maria Semple, Kristin Hannah, Luis and Cindy Urrea, Julia Sweeney and Timothy Egan pay tribute to Walter.  Questions are posed by: Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown, Shawn Vestal, Jim deFede, Craig Johnson, Cindy Hval, Sam Mills, Matthew Sullivan, Sam Ligon, Ammi Midstokke, Leyna Krow, Sharma Shields, Carla Crujido, Kate Lebo and WSU basketball coach, David Riley.