Authors Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West talk with Spokesman-Review columnist Shawn Vestal about their book "Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World" on the live-stream of the Northwest Passages Book Club.
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Longtime newspaper editor and author Margaret Sullivan, who started at her hometown newspaper, the Buffalo News and rose to become Editor, then became an editor at the New York Times and now a columnist at the The Washington Post, talks with Editor Rob Curley of The Spokesman-Review about the decline of newspapers and how today's citizens get their news. This is part of the Northwest Passages Community Forum with the support of the Innovia Foundation, Avista and Numerica.

Writer and humorist Sandra Tsing Loh headlines this Northwest Passages Book Club virtual event and her friend and comedian Julia Sweeney does the interviewing via livestream.

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Stephan Pastis, creator of the comic strip "Pearls Before Swine" and the kids book series "Timmy Failure", talks with Spokesman-Review Editor Rob Curley on the Northwest Passages Book Club livestream Thursday, June 11, 2020.

The many names and titles of Olivia Hawker

Ben Goldfarb visits with Eli Francovich, The Spokesman-Review's Outdoors editor. In “Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter,” environmental journalist Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America’s lakes and rivers.

Conversation between Non Sequitur creator Wiley Miller and Spokesman-Review editor Rob Curley at The Bing Crosby Theater on August 5 2019

Spark Central's Brooke Matson speaks with Nicole Chung, author of "All You Can Ever Know" before her Northwest Passages Book Club event.

Columnist and author Shawn Vestal speaks with Pam Houston about her new book "Deep Creek".

Her new book is an elegy to the disappearing wild places on Earth, like her 120-acre ranch, where cellphone towers are banned and the pantry is always stocked against the next three-day snowstorm.

An English professor at the University of California–Davis, Houston also is the author of “Cowboys are My Weakness” and “Contents May Have Shifted.” Her new book, "Deep Creek," is on the Pacific Northwest Independent Bestseller List.

Shields is a Spokane writer and author of the new novel, "The Cassandra." Pearl is a best-selling author, TV host and the only librarian with her own action figure.