(Airdate: April 8, 2025) Corrin Da Costa visits Booklovers’ Cafe to talk about her novel Dead Daddy Issues: Daughters and Fathers Life and Death – Sometimes it’s Complicated. It certainly is! This novel explores grief, guilt, families and tarot cards. This book takes the main character Leia home again but as Thomas Wolfe famously wrote you can’t go home again. There are many twists in the plot and the reader is along for the ride hoping for the best.
(Airdate: March 11, 2025) Cris Wilson welcomes Joseph Bednarik: speaker, author, editor and philosopher to discuss his new book Invited to Speak. Many of our listeners know Joseph from his long association with Copper Canyon Press and also from his many talks from the pulpit at Unitarian Fellowships around the Puget Sound. This book takes 7 of these talks that bring you into a world of memorable events, intriguing characters, quotes and poetry. This is a book to be savored and it’s funny, too!
(Airdate: February 11, 2025) Visiting Cris on Booklovers’ Cafe this time is Port Townsend’s own shipwright sailor guurl, Diana Talley! We talk about her no-holds-barred memoir, The Center of Buoyancy. This memoir speaks to us about the early years of the Boat Haven and how a young girl learned the wooden boat building trade, sailed fearlessly around the Pacific, and built her own business against the odds. There are people you know or wish you had met in these pages. The stories are tender and humorous, tough and true.
(Airdate: January 14, 2025) Cris Wilson welcomes mystery novelist Margaret Mizushima to Booklovers’ Cafe. She is the author of Gathering Mist, the 9th in the series of her Timber Creek canine mysteries. If you love criminal procedurals mixed with German Shepherd Search and Rescue you will love the stories of Mattie Wray and her sidekick Robo. Margaret has recently moved to Port Townsend from Colorado and she decided to set this book on the very “mysterious and foreboding” Olympic Peninsula.
(Airdate: December 3, 2024) Rachel Fordham visits Booklovers’ Cafe for a second time to introduce her newest historical novel, Beyond Ivy Walls. Set in Monticello, Iowa in 1903, the story revolves around a farm girl who needs to help support her family by working at the Hoag Family Feather Duster Factory! Yes, this establishment really existed here. Unable to afford rent, Sadie finds shelter in an abandoned building. A dog helps connect Sadie to sympathetic humans who are trying to find a missing niece. The themes revolve around the human concerns of family, acceptance, and love.
(Airdate: November 5, 2024) Scott Wilson, long time editor and publisher of the Port Townsend Leader stops by to talk with Cris Wilson about his book Working Port: 100 years of the Port of Port Townsend. This is a book for everyone as it is filled with so many great stories and characters. Some of these men and women are people still here making Port Townsend the unique and fabulous town we love!
(Airdate: October 8, 2024) Cris Wilson welcomes Connor Bouchard-Roberts to Booklovers’ Cafe to talk about his book A Field Companion for Wandering. Connor has traveled widely and wandered far. He loves words and maps and art so he has crafted this book to slip into a back pocket or pack and pull out for a pause on the trail or to prepare one for a journey. From advice on how to pack and keeping a journal to a definition of daemon, this book is a thought provoking delight.
(Airdate: September 10, 2024) Booklovers’ Cafe host Cris Wilson is pleased to introduce you to Lola Milholland, author of Group Living and Other Recipes. Wait, you already know Lola or members of her creative activist family in Port Townsend from Danny at The Production Alliance, to Amanda at the Farmer’s Market, and Doug and Nancy at Rosewind Cohousing. You will find a new friend and catch up with others while reading this book that serves a feast for mind, body and soul. This book will open your mind to new ways of thinking about family, home, and connections in your life. Cake creator and photo credit: Jaclyn Delorey.
(Airdate: August 13, 2024) Booklovers’ Cafe welcomes Patricia Hauschildt, author of Searching For Rose: A Mother, a daughter and decades that changed the world. In her book Pat explores the everyday life of a woman who lived through the 20th century in the United States. Pat draws on family stories but also research that reveals the details of the impact of the depression and World War II on the women of the Pacific Northwest. She also discusses her own ten year writing and publishing journey to explain the pitfalls and the rewards of self publishing.
(Airdate: June 18, 2024) Barbara Sjoholm, author, editor and translator, joins Cris on Booklovers’ Cafe to talk about her latest work From Lapland to Sapmi: Collecting and Returning Sami Craft and Culture. Barbara also wrote Black Fox: A Life of Emilie Demant Hatt and translated By the Fire, stories of the Sami people. These three books are of interest to anyone interested in northern indigenous culture and ethnography. Even music lovers will find joy in discovering the Sami drum and Joiking, the Sami song tradition.
