(Airdate: October 11, 2022) Cris Wilson interviews author Jasmin Faulk Dickerson about her memoir The Last Sandstorm. Jasmin is a writer, speaker, and cultural identity advocate. She draws motivation from her personal story to educate and promote social justice and understanding. Born in the Middle East to an Italian mother and Arabian father, she immigrated to the United States in 1999 and pursued her education in Wyoming and Washington State in writing, equity, diversity, and leadership. In her memoir, The Last Sandstorm, Jasmin highlights the colorful and challenging experiences of her upbringing in Saudi Arabia, which led to her harrowing escape in her 20s. It is a family story, a romance and a thriller – a modern teenager in the repressive culture of Saudi Arabia.

(Airdate: August 2, 2022) Cris Wilson interviews author, poet and founding editor of Empty Bowl Press Michael Daley. They talk about his novel Telemachus, a father/ son relationship search and coming of age book set partially in Port Townsend. The son is an artist and the father a famous poet and vicious critic. Cris and Michael also explore the recently published book, The Madrona Project Vol: 2: Human Communities in Wild Places. This is a beautiful book, delightful to hold filled with poems and essays by Northwest authors interspersed with art and photographs.

(Airdate: July 5, 2022) Jonathan Evison has been assessing America through novels about working-class folks — home health aides, lawn workers. His 2011 novel West of Here seems most in companionship with his latest, Small World. Both are sprawling sagas with dual timelines that follow late-19th-century Westerners and their contemporary descendants. Small World opens with a train accident in 2019. The engineer, Walter Bergen, has had a perfect record until this, the final run of his career. The train, heading to Seattle, is “hurtling toward the unavoidable” — both the inevitable crash and, for Walter, an increasing awareness of that final movement in our lives. As ever an enjoyable conversation about engaging characters.

(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.