Alaskan authors Stan Jones (Big Empty), Lori Townsend (Ghost Ship), and George Harbeson Jr. (Shadow Times) discuss their new books, writing, and Alaskan literary genres. Stan Jones, mystery author of Tundra Kill; White Sky, Black Ice; Shaman Pass; Frozen Sun; Village of the Ghost Bears, collaborated with Patricia Watts on the sixth Nathan Active series called The Big Empty. In the story, Nathan Active investigates a suspicious plane crash in Chukchi. Lori Townsend’s novel Ghost Ship welcomes back Anchorage-based reporter Zilla Gillette who is investigating an unusual disappearance of a group of nine teenagers from the Bering Strait community of Nome. Lori Townsend is the News Director for the Alaska Public Radio Network. Her first book, American Home Wrecker, introduced the tough and insightful Zilla Gillette. George Harbeson Jr’s short story collection Shadow Times, Alaska Stories of another Age was a finalist in the Brighthorse Books’ Prize for Short Fiction, 2017. “These Alaska short stories weave in and out of the shifting shadows and interlacing light cast by colliding cultures, by loss and loneliness, by redemption and hope, by dreams and nostalgic reminiscences…all rooted in the Alaskan natural landscape.” George Harbeson Jr is also author of Homesteaders in the Headlights, a memoir that traces his family’s move and homestead in Knik, AK starting in 1954. A lively discussion follow the readings.