Literature

45 Stories

Author Putsata Reang describes life as a refugee when 'you cannot go in the water or come up on land'

This is KUOW's book club, and we just read through the first half of Putsata Reang's memoir "Ma and Me."
- Katie Campbell
Seattle Reads + KUOW Book Club: Celebrating National Poetry Month with local voices

In partnership with SPL, the KUOW Book Club will read "You Are Here" in April, which is National Poetry Month.
- Katie Campbell
Seattle is a UNESCO City of Literature. Advocates want you to read all about it

Seattle has been part of the global network of Cities of Literature since 2017. This month, they're celebrating the 20th anniversary of the City of Literature designation in Edinburgh, the first city to receive the title.
- Katie Campbell
'A match made in literary heaven.' The Jaipur Literature Festival is coming to Seattle

Seattle is adding another festival to its summer roster, and it's a big one for the local literary scene: the Jaipur Literature Festival.
- Katie Campbell
Gabriel García Márquez's last novel is published against his wishes

Until August is the last novel of the Nobel Prize-winning author, a work he asked his sons to destroy. But, nearly 10 years after his death, they have decided to publish his final novel.
- Carrie Kahn
Digital reading is on the rise in King County. How do I even do that?

We recently reported that the King County Library System was the second most popular library across the United States, digitally. That inspired a great question from a reader: I'm paraphrasing, but they basica
- Katie Campbell
The comedy and complexity of campus life: Sonora Jha's 'The Laughter'

The plot of "The Laughter" twists and turns around issues of Islamophobia, sexism, and the changing culture of campus life. Author Sonora Jha, a Seattle University professor, discusses her newest novel and why she chose to make her main character so unlikeable.
- Libby Denkmann
Celebrate Black literature and history all year long at Seattle Public Library's Douglass-Truth Branch

Seattle is home to what some may consider a hidden treasure at the Douglass-Truth Branch of the Seattle Public Library: one of the largest collections of African-American literature and history on the West Coast.
- Angela King
'Waiting to dance again.' How Seattle's literary community weathered the pandemic

The role of Seattle’s civic poet is to be an ambassador for the literary arts, fostering dialogue between communities, and connecting people with art. For the last three years, that role has also been to memorialize various unprecedented challenges we’ve collectively faced.
- Libby Denkmann
This 19th-century short story might help combat racism against refugees today

India's Rabindranath Tagore was the first nonwhite writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature. His 1892 story, "The Kabuliwala," fostered empathy for migrants and refugees. It still resonates today.
- Lauren Frayer

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