Northwest Passages Book Club

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Welcome to The Spokesman-Review’s Northwest Passages Book Club. We invite fellow book lovers to join us for exploration, adventure and conversation. The Northwest Passages Book Club hosts community book events featuring local authors and great storytellers from elsewhere as well.

  1. Travis Baldree "Brigands and Breadknives" conversation with Ron Sylvester

    12/05/2025

    Travis Baldree "Brigands and Breadknives" conversation with Ron Sylvester

    Author Travis Baldree joins the Spokesman-Review's Northwest Passages book club to discuss "BRIGANDS & BREADKNIVES," the third installment of his #1 New York Times bestselling Legends & Lattes series.

    41 min
  2. Sonora Jha - "Intemperance" conversation with Cindy Hval

    12/05/2025

    Sonora Jha - "Intemperance" conversation with Cindy Hval

    Author Sonora Jha talks with Spokesman-Review columnist Cindy Hval about Jha's novel, INTEMPERANCE, at a gathering of the Northwest Passages Book Club at the Montvale Event Center Monday, Nov. 14, 2025 in Spokane, Washington.

    35 min

  3. 10/23/2025

    River Selby "Hotshot: A Life on Fire" in conversation with Elena Perry

    Author River Selby visits the Northwest Passages Book Club to talk about her new book "Hotshot: A Life on Fire." Spokesman-Review writer Elena Perry asks Selby about fighting wildland fires in the live interview at the Montvale Event Center Monday, Oct. 20, 2025 in Spokane, Washington.

    55 min

  4. 10/23/2025

    Shann Ray "Where Blackbirds Fly" in conversation with Lindsey Treffry

    Poet and author Shann Ray appears at the Northwest Passages Book Club Tuesday, October 7, 2025 to talk about his newest work, "Where Blackbirds Fly." The book, a novel in five novellas, is a story about human intimacy in all its forms. Ray also writes in the field of social science under the name Shann Ray Ferch. Ferch teaches leadership studies at Gonzaga University. On the stage at the Bing Crosby Theater in Spokane, Spokesman-Review Managing Editor Lindsey Treffry will pose the questions in the interview.

    47 min

  5. 08/15/2025

    Nick Gibson interviews Jim Thomas about ATOMIC PILGRIM

    Author James Patrick Thomas brought his memoir, "Atomic Pilgrim," to the Northwest Passages Book Club Tuesday, August 12, 2025. The book talks about Thomas' decades-long investigation into the use and spread of nuclear weapons, the harms of radiation and working toward peace. Thomas lives in Seattle. Spokesman-Review reporter Nick Gibson poses the questions in the interview.

    1h 13m

  6. 08/15/2025

    "So Far Gone" by Jess Walter book launch

    Author Jess Walter, debuts his book "So Far Gone" at Northwest Passages in Spokane, Washington Tuesday, June 10, 2025. The event is moderatoed by Spokesman-Review Editor Rob Curley at the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center at Gonzaga University where several of Jess Walter's colleagues:  Anthony Doerr, Maria Semple, Kristin Hannah, Luis and Cindy Urrea, Julia Sweeney and Timothy Egan pay tribute to Walter.  Questions are posed by: Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown, Shawn Vestal, Jim deFede, Craig Johnson, Cindy Hval, Sam Mills, Matthew Sullivan, Sam Ligon, Ammi Midstokke, Leyna Krow, Sharma Shields, Carla Crujido, Kate Lebo and WSU basketball coach, David Riley.

    1h 4m

  7. 03/27/2025

    Eileen Garvin gets into "Crow Talk" with Ammi Midstokke

    National bestselling author of "The Music of Bees, " Eileen Garvin returns with a moving story of hope, healing, and unexpected friendship set amidst the wild natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest. “Garvin evocatively renders the beauty of the mountain landscape, and she excels at depicting the fault lines in her characters’ lives…Readers in the mood for a happy ending will be carried away.” —Publisher’s Weekly Ammi Midstokke leads the conversation, taped before a live studio audience on the roof top of the Steam Plant on May 2, 2024.

    46 min

  8. 03/27/2025

    "Total Garbage" explained with Edward Humes

    Acclaimed author Ed Humes appears at the Northwest Passages Book Club to talk about his latest work, "Total Garbage", with Spokesman-Review editor Rob Curley at the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts theater at Gonzaga University on Thursday, April 18, 2024.

    1h 2m
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Welcome to The Spokesman-Review’s Northwest Passages Book Club. We invite fellow book lovers to join us for exploration, adventure and conversation. The Northwest Passages Book Club hosts community book events featuring local authors and great storytellers from elsewhere as well.

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  • Creator
    The Spokesman-Review
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2025
  • Episodes
    82
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