Author Peter Heller joins a discussion with readers about this year's Seattle Reads title - 'The Painter.' -- 'The Painter' recounts the story of famous artist Jim Stegner, as he struggles to manage the dark impulses within himself. He lives peacefully in rural Colorado, spending his days painting and fly fishing, until he encounters a brutal act of violence that rips his quiet life wide open.

Ruth Kirk and Hannah Palin, UW Special Collections, show newly digitized footage of the decades-long excavation of Ozette Makah whaling village on the coast of the Olympic Peninsula. -- Makah families left the coastal village of Ozette in the 1920s to comply with the federal government's requirement that they send their children to school. By doing so they ended nearly two thousand years of occupation at this strategic whale- and seal-hunting site. -- Archaeologist Richard Daugherty took note of the site in 1947 and later returned at the request of the Makah tribal chairman. Full-scale excavations from 1966 to 1981 revealed houses and their contents. Led by Daugherty, with a team of graduate and undergraduate students and Makah tribal members, the work culminated in the creation of the Makah Museum in Neah Bay, where more than 55,000 Ozette artifacts are curated and displayed.

Lifelong AIDS Alliance and the #myHIVmoment campaign present a lineup of speakers, including a positive youth panel, to celebrate National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NYHAAD). -- This event is the culmination of a variety of programming through the month of April related to NYHAAD. It features guest speakers working in the field, and a panel discussion with positive youth and youth accessing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and the intersections this has with HIV stigma.

Celebrated actor, writer and Zen practitioner Peter Coyote reads from his second memoir, 'The Rainman's Third Cure: An Unsentimental Education.' -- His earlier memoir, 'Sleeping Where I Fall' (published in 1998) tells of his life in the heart of the counterculture with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, the Diggers, and the communes: The Red House, Olema and Black Bear Ranch.

Tommy was separated from his sisters after he stood up to their abusive father. Jim was by Tommy's side through it all. But one winter night, a chance event on a frozen lake forever changed the balance of their friendship. Now Jim fishes alone on a bridge as Tommy drives by in a new Mercedes, and it's clear their fortunes have reversed. Over the course of the day, the life of each man will be irrevocably altered. -- Per Petterson is the author of five previous novels, including “Out Stealing Horses,” which won the 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was translated into more than thirty languages. It was named one of the best books of 2007 by the New York Times Book Review and Time.

La Sala and Pinoy Words Expressed present readings by three Latino/a and three Filipino/a poets. -- Roberto Ascalon, Jim Cantú, Lorna Dee Cervantez, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Emily Lawsin and Sam Roderick Roxas-Chua read their poems and explore the use, comparison and implications of their respective mythologies in their creative work and the work of other writers representing their cultures.

Kazuo Ishiguro reads from his much anticipated new novel, 'The Buried Giant'. -- The book begins as an elderly couple, Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years. They expect to face many hazards, some strange and other-worldly, but they cannot yet foresee how their journey will reveal to them dark and forgotten corners of their love for one another. -- Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Ishiguro's first novel in a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge and war. -- Kazuo Ishiguro's seven previous books have won him wide renown and numerous honors. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. Both 'The Remains of the Day' and 'Never Let Me Go' have more than one million copies in print across platforms, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films.

“Exercises to Free the Tongue” -- poems and text by Seattle poet Molly Tenenbaum, artist's book by Ellen Ziegler -- is illuminated with historic images and ephemera from the poet’s grandparents, who were ventriloquists on the vaudeville circuit in the early 1900s. Tenenbaum and Ziegler will touch on the subjects of poetry, poetry married to imagery, ephemera, family history, the magic worlds of vaudeville and ventriloquism, times past and present. -- Molly Tenenbaum is an award-winning author of three poetry collections. She teaches English at North Seattle College and music in her living room. Recent honors include support from 4Culture and Artist Trust to produce the collection celebrated today. -- Artist Ellen Ziegler’s practice includes the making of artist’s books. She has collaborated with poet/musician Patti Smith and poet Frances McCue, as well as poet Molly Tenenbaum. Her work is in the collections of Harvard, Yale, Mills College, University of Washington and many other university and private collections. She's an Artist Trust Fellow in Design and a winner of numerous grants and awards in fine arts.

After being raised by a controversial sociologist father who subjected him to psychological and social experiments, the narrator of “The Sellout” is both intellectually gifted and street-wise. He is led to believe that his father’s pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family’s financial woes. But when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, he realizes there never was a memoir.His hometown of Dickens is removed from the map of California, and he sets out to restore it by reinstituting slavery and segregating the schools. Eventually, he faces criminal charges and appears in front of the Supreme Court in what becomes "the latest in a long line of landmark race-related cases.”“Beatty hits on all cylinders in a darkly funny, dead-on-target, elegantly written satire . . . [‘The Sellout’] is frequently laugh-out-loud funny and, in the way of the great ones, profoundly thought provoking.” *Starred Review* BooklistPaul Beatty is the author of two novels, "Tuff "and "The White Boy Shuffle," and two books of poetry, "Big Bank Take Little Bank" and "Joker, Joker, Deuce." He is also the editor of "Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor."

This is Part 2 of a 2-part podcast. -- Fifty years ago the nation watched as Alabama state troopers brutally beat civil rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma in what became known as “Bloody Sunday.” Two weeks later the same marchers walked 54 miles to the Alabama capitol in Montgomery, and five months later Congress passed and President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act — one of the most important pieces of legislation in the history of American democracy. -- Fifty years later, the battle for voting rights for all Americans has returned to the center of the nation’s democracy. While much has changed, there is still more work to do to heal our communities of injustice through non-violence work. -- Following a seven-day pilgrimage across the US South to landmarks of the Civil Rights Movement, Professor David Domke and a cohort of "pilgrims" will share their experiences and reflect on the ongoing work of justice for all through storytelling and music. -- Listen, be inspired, and reflect on your role in the ongoing work of justice for all.