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Love on the Palouse: Q&A with author Cheryl Grey Bostrom
Cheryl Grey Bostrom (’80 MA English) independently published her best-selling award-winner Sugar Birds in 2021. Tyndale House re-released it in 2023 and has now published Leaning on Air, a standalone sequel set on the Palouse.
Here, Washington State Magazine catches up with Bostrom about prairie restoration, her writing process, and more.
Talk about seeing the Palouse for the first time.
A Port Angeles girl, I rarely ventured farther than the Olympic Peninsula before college. But in September 1975 I set off cross-state in my 1966 Impala to visit my boyfriend, newly enrolled in WSU’s Veterinary College. Two things happened that … » More …
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Sugar Birds
Bad Medicine
The Whaler and the Girl in the Deadfall
What to read: Books by alumni, faculty, and staff
Here’s a round-up of reading recommendations featuring titles by WSU alumni, faculty, and staff—including one to watch for later this spring.
Anything and everything by Buddy Levy. The celebrated author of seven books, Levy specializes in historical narrative, particularly epic adventures and survival stories—perfect for the pandemic, which makes us all armchair travelers. Levy’s taught writing at WSU for more than 30 years, and his own writing—meticulously researched, masterfully organized—simply sings. His riveting narratives make readers feel like they are right there with protagonists, experiencing everything they’re going through.
“Buddy Levy: Historical investigator” from the Summer 2011 issue
Labyrinth … » More …
Recommended reading
The persisting pandemic just might be the perfect time for relishing the power of books.
To transport us through time and space. To offer us insight and entertainment. To help us remember and make us forget. To lessen our stress and sense of loss and isolation. To give us courage and hope. To connect us and inspire us.
Books are both refuge and door, providing shelter from the storm as well as ways to escape to different worlds and discover new things. Many of us have turned to them for respite while we’re all largely sequestered in our homes.
Here, Washington State University faculty and … » More …