Annie is 37 weeks pregnant. She's shopping at IKEA in Portland, Oregon, when everything around her begins to shake. It's an earthquake – the big one. Unable to get in touch with her husband or anyone ...

A heat dome in Texas. Wildfire smoke polluting the air in the East and Midwest. The signs are everywhere that our children’s summers will look nothing like our own. In this episode, we talk with the ...

KUOW Book Club curator Katie Campbell recently interviewed Pacific Northwest author Emma Pattee about her debut novel "Tilt." In a 2015 piece for The New Yorker — a piece that would go on to win a ...

Emma Pattee’s debut novel Tilt takes place over the course of a single day, the day that the decades-overdue Cascadia earthquake rocks Portland. It unfolds via the wry inner monologue of Annie, who is ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A recent 8.8 earthquake in Russia and resulting tsunami warnings along the Pacific Northwest coastline have brought renewed attention to the region’s own seismic risk. The ...

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Annie is 37 weeks pregnant. She's shopping at IKEA in Portland, Oregon, when everything around her begins to shake. It's an earthquake – the big... Emma Pattee's 'Tilt' imagines the aftermath of a ...

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