Bainbridge Island Specials

From BCB... http://bestofbcb.org/spec-003-david-gutersons-march-2015-address/ In this podcast, the third in our new series of BCB Bainbridge Island specials, we offer award-winning local author David Guterson's reflections on the writing of Snow Falling on Cedars, from a talk delivered at Bainbridge Performing Arts on March 22nd, 2015. This talk is introduced by Kate Carruthers, Director of BPA's Book-It Theater production of Snow Falling on Cedars. As part of their March presentation of Snow Falling on Cedars, Bainbridge Performing Arts invited Guterson to give a special presentation prior to a matinee performance of the play. Reading Snow Falling on Cedars twenty years later, its author encountered an unexpected mixture of emotions. In this talk he shared these, along with his thoughts on the influences, ideals, and ambitions that led to its writing and what the book means to him now. It took Guterson five years to write Snow Falling on Cedars, in part because he was teaching full time at Bainbridge High Sc