# Event Details - **Event Name**: Chuckanut Radio Hour Presents: Pam Houston- Animals Taught Me Everything - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 22 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 22 Oct, 2026 at 08:30 pm (-07:00) - **Event Description**: What can animals teach us about being human? Join Pam Houston for her discussion with Becky Mandelbaum on this live Chuckanut Radio Hour!About this EventVenue & Musical Guest TBA!From Icelandic mares and Irish wolfhounds to elephants, leopards, hyena bitches, and a desert-adapted lioness named Charlie, Pam Houston has learned life’s most important lessons from animals. How to play. How to rest. How to love. How to die. How to be present with the dying. How to be present with the living and with the Earth. How to find joy in the least likely places. How to find joy, literally, everywhere. With playful sincerity, Houston finds power and promise in the teachings of our fellow creatures and reminds us that the animals are here for us, every day and everywhere.Pam Houston is the author of the short story collection Cowboys Are My Weakness, the memoir Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country, and seven other books of fiction and nonfiction. Her books have won multiple Western States, Mountains and Plains and Colorado Book Awards and her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, the O Henry Prize Anthology and Best American Short Stories of the Century. She teaches creative writing at The Institute of American Indian Arts and UC Davis, is cofounder and creative director of the literary nonprofit Writing By Writers and fiction editor at the environmental arts journal Terrain.org. She lives on a homestead at 9,000 feet near the headwaters of the Rio Grande. Her book of essays on kinship, Animals Taught Me Everything, will be published by Torrey House Press in October, 2026.Pam Houston will be in conversation with:Becky Mandelbaum is the author of the novel The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals, an Indie Next Pick, and the story collection Bad Kansas, which received the Flannery O’Connor Award, the High Plains Book Award for First Book, and was a Kansas Notable Book. Her writing has received a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The New Yorker Daily Shouts, One Story, The Sun, and elsewhere. Her new novel Homewrecker is forthcoming in 2027. Originally from Kansas, she now lives in Bellingham, Washington.Feel free to reach out to Village Books and Paper dreams for further assistance at 360-671-2626! - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/events/chuckanut-radio-hour-presents-pam-houston-animals-taught-me-everything/100001987841375064 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, live-music - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 11.49, max: 20.89, currency: USD ## Event venue details ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Chuckanut Radio Hour Presents: Pam Houston- Animals Taught Me Everything - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/6661fdfe69ed9ee470afca8f82a2d2a8eab486bcb7108c09949a7659707c5115-rimg-w1200-h600-dcd8d6d6-gmir.jpg?v=1777798368 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Chuckanut Radio Hour Presents: Pam Houston- Animals Taught Me Everything being held? - **A:** Chuckanut Radio Hour Presents: Pam Houston- Animals Taught Me Everything takes place on Thu, 22 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 22 Oct, 2026 at 08:30 pm at . - **Q**: Who is organizing Chuckanut Radio Hour Presents: Pam Houston- Animals Taught Me Everything? - **A:** Chuckanut Radio Hour Presents: Pam Houston- Animals Taught Me Everything is organized by Village Books. - **Q**: What has been the experience of attendees at Village Books's events? - **A:** Attendees have given Village Books a rating of 5/5 based on reviews from early attendees on AllEvents. 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