The Notebook on Cities and Culture Guide to the Pacific Northwest indexes all the show’s Pacific Northwest city-recorded and Pacific Northwest city-related interviews. But 52 more Seattle interviews could appear over the next year if we successfully Kickstart season six, A Year in Seattle, before Saturday morning. Check out its Kickstarter page to find out how you can help make it happen.
Seattle:
- Leslie Helm, former Tokyo correspondent for Business Week and the Los Angeles Times, editor of Seattle Business, and author of Yokohama Yankee: My Family’s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan
Vancouver:
- Paul Delany, professor of English at Simon Fraser University and editor of Vancouver: Representing the Postmodern City
- JJ Lee, menswear writer, broadcaster, and author of The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit
- Gordon Price, Director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University and former Councillor for the City of Vancouver
- Dave Shumka, comedian and co-host of Stop Podcasting Yourself
- Timothy Taylor, novelist, author of Stanley Park, Story House, The Blue Light Project, and the short story collection Silent Cruise
Portland:
- Camas Davis, food writer and founder of the Portland Meat Collective
- Dan Halsted, head programmer at the Hollywood Theatre with Dan Halsted and founder of the 35mm Shaolin Archive
- Jarrett Walker, public transit consultant and author of the book Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking About Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives
- Kevin Sampsell, publisher of Future Tense Books, editor of Portland Noir, author of the memoir A Common Pornography, and employee of Powell’s Books
- Carl Abbott, Portland State University professor of urban studies and planning and author of Portland in Three Centuries: The Place and the People
- Matt Haughey, founder of Metafilter
- Mia Birk, president of Alta Planning + Design and author of Joyride: Pedaling Toward a Healthier Future
- Mike Russell, comic artist and film critic
Marketplace of Ideas interviews:
- Peter Bagge, Seattle-based comic artist, creator of Hate [first interview MP3] [second interview MP3]
- Dave Weich, director of marketing and development at Portland’s Powell’s Books [MP3]
- Ethan Rose, Portland-based electro-acoustic musician who composed for Gus van Sant’s Paranoid Mark and recorded an album with the 1920s Wurlitzer in the city’s famous Oaks skating rink [MP3]
- John Raymond, Portland-based author of the Portland-set short story collection Livability, two of whose stories served as bases for Kelly Reichardt’s films Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy [MP3]
- Nicholas Sherman, director of Soundtracker, a documentary on Washington-based field recordist Gordon Hempton [MP3]
- Aaron Katz, Portland-raised filmmaker, director of the Portland-set high-school drama Dance Party USA and “Portland noir” Cold Weather [MP3]
Supplementary material:
- Guardian article on Portland’s food trucks and Urban Growth Boundary
- Guardian article on the urbanization of Seattle’s South Lake Union