(Airdate: June 7, 2022) Cris Wilson interviews community member Seb Eggert about his father Charle Eggert’s memoir The Last Canyon Voyage: A Filmmaker’s Journey Down the Green and Colorado River detailing his 1955 expedition to duplicate the 1870s journey of John Wesley Powell before dams planned at Flaming Gorge and Glen Canyon flooded the wild river.
(Airdate: April 12, 2022) Our own Jerry Osborne takes over the microphone and has a conversation with Alec Wightman about his memoir Music in My Life: Notes from a long time fan. Rock and roll first spoke to Alec as a ten-year-old listening to Dion on his transistor radio. Over the next sixty years, Wightman would listen to countless records, chase live shows from coast to coast , promote sing-songwriter acts through his own concert production company and serve as chair of the board of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
(Airdate: March 1, 2022) Host Cris Wilson has a conversation with T.J. Klune about his NY Times Bestseller and the 2022 Port Townsend Community Read The House in the Cerulean Sea, a fantasy story for all ages. Linus Baker, a caseworker in the Department of Magical Youth is on assignment for Exceedingly Upper Management. On the island he discovers a series of mysterious creatures and the Master of the orphanage, Arthur Parnassus. Linus finds love, an unlikely family, and discovers his own power to protect them. A land of color and magic is just the medicine we need.
(Airdate: January 4, 2022) If you are looking for solid engaging science and a hopeful book on Climate change try Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid. Cris talks with Thor Hanson about the way that animals and plants don’t just suffer climate change but respond to it by adjusting, evolving and, yes, sometimes “winking out”. It’s happening now and has been measured for over a hundred years. A wonderful and engaging storyteller: We are proud to interview Thor once again.
(Airdate: December 7, 2021) Rough Crossing introduces you to the intrepid Rosemary McGuire as she signs on to the crew of the Arctic Storm in Homer, Alaska looking for money and experience. Well, she got one of those! She writes with “a keen eye for essential detail with lean-forward moving sentences.” Join host Cris Wilson as she talks to the author and old time musician from her cabin near Murphy Dome in Fairbanks where she lives when not doing research in the Arctic or floating alone on a designated Wild and Scenic River.
(Airdate: October 31, 2021) Cris Wilson is delighted to talk to Lyanda Lynn Haupt about her latest book, Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit. This book is a philosophical and personal exploration into the ecology of the Pacific Northwest. It is truly a celebration and guide for us all to find wonder and belonging.
(First airdate: September 28, 2021) JoAnne Tompkins introduces her debut novel “What Comes After” on Booklovers’ Cafe. The book has received great reviews from the New York Times as a recommended Book Group selection. It is set in Port Townsend and is a psychological mystery with strong characters. Sometimes tough and sometimes tender, the book is true to life today AND it features a great dog named Rufus.
(First airdate: August 31, 2021) Joe Gillard, a history buff and founder of History Hustle, a digital publication, has fun with Cris talking about their favorite selections from his book The Little Book of Lost Words. Who doesn’t need to know about a word like Snollygoster, a dishonest politician or Snuggery, a cozy room perfect for reading and dreaming?
(First airdate: August 3, 2021) Host Cris Wilson welcomes Corky Parker to Booklovers’ Cafe. Corky introduces her memoir La FInca: Love, Loss, and Laundry on a Tiny Puerto Rican Island. At age 40, Parker surrendered to her Swept Away-meets-Swiss Family Robinson fantasy of running an inn far from her home in the Pacific Northwest. She bought a group of cabins built by women in the hills of a small island in the Caribbean, and for the next 20+ years she and her family split their time between Seattle, and what became La Finca Caribe, their eco-lodge in Vieques, Puerto Rico.
(First airdate: June 27, 2021) Cris Wilson welcomes David B. Williams to Booklovers’ Cafe to talk about his latest book Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound. Witty, graceful, and deeply informed, Homewaters weaves history and science into a fascinating and hopeful narrative, one that will introduce newcomers to the astonishing life that inhabits the Sound and offers us new insight into and appreciation of the waters we call home.
