The Arik Korman Show

Douglas Preston worked as a writer and editor for the American Museum of Natural History, and taught writing at Princeton University. He has written for The New Yorker, Natural History, National Geographic, Harper’s, Smithsonian, and The Atlantic. Douglas is the author of several acclaimed nonfiction books, including the bestseller The Monster of Florence, and he is also the co-author, with Lincol...

Sylvia Tara holds a PhD in biochemistry from the University of California, San Diego and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She was a consultant with McKinsey & Company, and has worked at the world’s largest biotechnology companies. Sylvia’s new book is The Secret Life of Fat: The Science Behind the Body’s Least Understood Organ and What It Means for You. Dr. Tara wa...

Dava Sobel is the author of five books, including the New York Times bestsellers Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter, and The Planets. She is a former New York Times science reporter and a longtime contributor to The New Yorker, Audubon, Discover, and Harvard Magazine. Her new book is The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars. Dava was in the Northwest t...

Jay Inslee is an American politician, attorney and member of the Democratic Party who has served as the 23rd Governor of Washington since January 2013. As Washington state grapples with how to solve the McCleary education funding lawsuit, Governor Inslee highlights his education priorities for the upcoming legislative session.

Susan Casey, author of New York Times bestsellers The Wave and The Devil’s Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America’s Great White Sharks, is the former editor-in-chief of O, The Oprah Magazine. She has appeared in Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Outside, and National Geographic. Susan’s newest book is Voices in the Ocean: A Journey Into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolph...

Emily Witt has written for The New Yorker, n+1, The New York Times, and the London Review of Books. She studied at Brown University, Columbia University, and the University of Cambridge, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Mozambique. Her new book is Future Sex: A New Kind of Free Love. Emily was in the Northwest to speak at Town Hall Seattle, presented by Town Hall and University Book Store, as part o...

Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Her writing on psychology and cognitive science has appeared in Science, The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, New Scientist, Slate and The Atlantic. Her body of work also includes four books and over 100 journal articles. She has fr...

Laura Jennings is a global technology leader, innovator, venture capitalist and, most recently, the Founder of Knack, an online purveyor of fine gifts. During her 12-year career with Microsoft, Laura led the strategic direction of some of Microsoft’s most well known products, including MSN and Exchange, and was responsible for the launch of the original Microsoft Office product. Post Microsoft, La...

Soprano Marcy Stonikas is a rising star in the opera world. She has sung the leading role at Seattle Opera in works such as Tosca, The Consul, Ariadne auf Naxos, Fidelio, and Turandot. Marcy stars as Gertrude, the mother in Seattle Opera’s Hansel and Gretel by Englebert Humperdinck. Catch performances through October 30th. Info at Seattle Opera.org.

Sasha Lane is an American actress, who made her film debut in American Honey, written and directed by Andrea Arnold. Sasha grew up in Dallas. Prior to becoming an actress, she worked as a waitress at a restaurant in Frisco, Texas, and was also a stand-out athlete on basketball, track, and field teams. She attended Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, but moved to LA to pursue her acting ca...

Benjamin Bergen is a professor of cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego, where he directs the Language and Cognition Laboratory. He writes for the Huffington Post and Psychology Today, and appears on NPR’s Morning Edition, the Brain Science Podcast, and elsewhere. Benjamin’s new book is What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves. He was i...

Cathy O’Neil is a data scientist and author of the blog Mathbabe.org. She earned a Ph. D. in mathematics from Harvard and taught at Barnard College before moving to the private sector, where she worked for the hedge fund D.E. Shaw. She then worked as a data scientist at various start-ups, building models that predict people’s purchases and clicks. Cathy started the Lede Program in Data Journalism...

Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter at The New York Times and the author of The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, about the science of habit formation in our lives, companies and societies, which spent over 60 weeks on The New York Times bestseller lists. He has appeared on This American Life, N.P.R., The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, and Frontlin...

Craig Robinson is an actor, stand-up comedian, and singer. He is best known for his role as Darryl Philbin on The Office, and his roles in the films Pineapple Express, Zack and Miri, Hot Tub Time Machine and This Is the End. Craig’s newest film is Morris From America, featured at the Seattle International Film Festival. It opens this Friday, August 26th.

Susan Conrad is an adventurer, writer, educator, and speaker. She's also an accomplished paddler. Her tenacious exploration by sea kayak has fueled her stories and images of the natural world for decades. Her articles and photographs have appeared in Sea Kayaker, Canoe and Kayak, Adventures Northwest, and Figure magazines. Countless newspapers, guidebooks, and historical journals also feature Susa...

Mary Roach is the New York Times best-selling author of STIFF: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, SPOOK: Science Tackles the Afterlife, BONK: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, PACKING FOR MARS: The Curious Science of Life in the Void and GULP: Adventures in the Alimentary Canal. Her new book is GRUNT: The Curious Science of Humans at War. Mary Roach was in the Northwest to speak at Town H...

Viggo Mortensen made his film acting debut in Peter Weir's 1985 thriller Witness, and went on to appear in many notable films, including The Lord of the Rings, Eastern Promises, The Indian Runner, Carlito's Way, Crimson Tide, Daylight, The Portrait of a Lady, G.I. Jane, A Perfect Murder, A Walk on the Moon, and 28 Days. Actor, writer and director Matt Ross is best known for his role as Alby Grant...

Ed Boland has nearly 25 years of professional experience in education. He started by teaching swimming to five-year olds and art history to senior citizens. He served as an admissions officer at his alma mater, Fordham, and later at Yale. He taught English in China as a Princeton in Asia fellow immediately after the Tianamen Square massacre. He was a fundraiser for Barnard College, the all-women’s...

Lydia Millet is an American novelist and conservationist. Her third novel, My Happy Life, won the 2003 PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, and she has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize as well as a Guggenheim fellow, among other honors. Lydia has written books and stories that range from the philosophical to the satirical, on matters including the inventors of the atom bomb, political culture u...

Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times best-selling author of 29 books and a former foreign correspondent for the International Herald Tribune, The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald and The Philadelphia Inquirer. His 1997 book, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, was an international bestseller and was translated into more than 15 languages. His book Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons...

Angela Duckworth is an American psychologist. In her late twenties, Angela left a demanding job as a management consultant to teach math to seventh graders in the New York City public schools. Several years in the classroom taught her that effort was tremendously important to success. To begin to solve the mystery of why some people work so much harder and longer than others, Angela entered the Ph...

Samantha Montgomery, also known as Princess Shaw, is a singer whose a capella YouTube performances were discovered by Israeli music producer Kutiman. Her song "Give It Up" has more than 2.6 million views. Samantha's story is the subject of the new documentary Presenting Princess Shaw, featured at the 2016 Seattle International Film Festival. It opens in theaters, on demand, on Amazon Video and on...

Juan Williams is a journalist and political analyst for Fox News Channel. He also writes for several newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal and has been published in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly and Time. Juan is the author of Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965, Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary, and Enoug...

Garry Marshall is a veteran producer, director and writer of film, television and live theatre, best known for creating the hit TV show Happy Days and its spinoffs, developing Neil Simon's 1965 play The Odd Couple for television, and directing the movies Pretty Woman, Nothing In Common, Dear God, Frankie and Johnny, Runaway Bride, Georgia Rule, Beaches, The Princess Diaries, Valentine's Day and Ne...

Lenore Skenazy is a blogger, columnist, author and reality show host who made national headlines in 2008 when she let her 9­year-old son ride the New York City subway alone, which earned her the nickname of "America's Worst Mom." In response, Lenore founded the book, blog, and movement "Free-Range Kids." She has appeared on “The Daily Show” and hosted the Discovery TV show “World’s Worst Mom” wher...