(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.
(Airdate: May 7, 2024) Booklovers’ Cafe host Cris Wilson is joined by Fisher Poet, author, and salmon troller Tele Aadsen to talk about her memoir, What Water Holds, a sea-to-plate story told with love. This is a book full of stories of a life spent fishing the waters around Sitka, and a lyric celebration of the marine environment. Tele is a handtroller on the boat Nerka that she shares with her partner Joel. The collection of stories will appeal not only to people on the water but naturalists, environmentalists and all who think deeply about our world and our place as stewards of the wild. This book was chosen by the Anchorage Daily news as one of the top books of 2023.
(Airdate: April 9, 2024) Host Cris Wilson has the pleasure of talking with Tim McNulty about Salmon, Cedar, Rock, and Rain: Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. This book is a rich and vivid study of both Olympic Park and its surrounding peninsula, featuring stunning full-color photos alongside natural and human histories. The essays explore why the Olympics and its natural, cultural, and economic communities are worth understanding and why sustaining a resilient future benefits us all! This book includes contributions from indigenous leaders as well as an introduction by David Guterson. More info here.
(Airdate: June 4, 2024) Jon Karpilow visited Cris Wilson at the new Fort Worden studio for Booklovers’ Cafe to talk about his new book, A Liberal’s Search for America: Tales from the Gunshop. Jon has landed in PT after a spell in Calaveras County where he worked in a gun shop called The Rusty Knife. The characters that hang out here are indeed memorable and a picture of Americans we rarely spend much time with here in the PT bubble. Alternatively funny and frightening, there are indeed some good tales. Jon is currently writing features for the Leader and volunteering where he is needed.
(Airdate: February 27, 2024) Cris welcomes Port Townsend author Adrianne Harun to Booklover’s Cafe to talk about her newest novel On the Way to the End of the World. This work of literary fiction has been chosen as the 2024 Port Townsend Community Read. The story is set in a milltown on the peninsula in the Spring of 1963. A small group has accepted President Kennedy’s challenge to walk 50 miles in 20 hours. The characters are unique and mostly strangers to one another but as they walk and face unknown threats, they form a community with various gifts to bestow like wish knots along a length of line. The trails and spots are familiar yet not quite as they make their way to the bluff at the End of the World.
(Airdate: January 30, 2024) Rikki Ducornet joins Cris Wilson on Booklovers’ Cafe to talk about her latest novella The Plotinus and to celebrate the reprint of Phosphor in Dreamland. Rikki is a transdisciplinary artist, fiction writer, and essayist who resides in Port Townsend. She has written 10 novels including Trafix, Netsuke, and The Jade Cabinet. Her work follows her dreams into the realms of surrealism and science fiction. She brings themes of authoritarian abuse, tyranny, beauty, and hope into her writing with a mastery of language and sensuality.
(Reprise Airdate: January 16, 2024) Once again this tremendous book is Number 1 on the New York Times bestseller list boosted by the movie directed and produced by George Clooney. Cris talked to Daniel James Brown back when the book was new and causing a sensation first in the rowing world and then when everyone recognized the power of an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in desperate times. Here we are again cheering Joe Rantz from Sequim.
