Books

After a rural library district was at risk of being dissolved last year, Washington lawmakers are debating how that process could be improved – and not…

“Radio Free Olympia” is a book about a handful of characters, one of whom, Petr, is raised on the Olympic Peninsula. Without traditional parents, he’s also raised by the landscape. Petr guides readers through folklore of the peninsula by broadcasting spirits on a homemade radio. Reporter Lauren Gallup sat down with Jeffrey Dunn to discuss what inspired this surreal story about the Pacific Northwest.

(Runtime 3:57) By Johanna Bejarano and Lauren Gallup The Washington Center for the Book announced the 2023 Washington State Book Awards for outstanding…

(Runtime 0:58)A measure to dissolve a small library in southeastern Washington will not be on the November ballot. The decision comes after a hearing…

(Runtime 1:11)A lawsuit is calling a ballot measure to dissolve a southeastern Washington library unconstitutional. The complaint aims to keep the measure…

(Runtime: 4:19) The Columbia County Library in southeastern Washington stands less than a block off Dayton’s Main Street in a historic red-brick building…

The Imagination Library of Washington has gifted 1.6 million books to early learners statewide. Dolly Parton began the program in her home state of Tennessee in 1995. Washington created its statewide program in 2022 and on Aug. 15, the country music star celebrated its reach here, with those who made it possible.

Two different school districts in the Columbia Basin are reviewing books in their libraries. Both Kennewick and Walla Walla school districts have had…

&t=28sMore Murrow News StoriesCOLFAX, Wash. – Don’t judge a book by its cover. We’ve all heard the saying, but the Whitman County Library takes it to a…

Read at night, at the end of a too-long day, and characters will enter and exit the rooms of memory, trailing the scent of cigarette smoke and faded perfume. With Simon Van Booy's new novel, Night Came With Many Stars, open in front of me, I know the smell of summer afternoons and the pattern of paint spattered on a workingman's boots. I can hear the bugs in the dark and feel the spill of light from a house at the end of a long, dirt drive. Find a book that speaks a language you know and you can drown in it without even realizing.