Comma Community Journalism Lab

Bestselling mystery writer Craig Johnson returns to the Northwest Passages stage tonight!

Limited tickets still available. Please join us!

Here are answers to some questions readers frequently ask about Comma, the future of The Spokesman-Review and how to support local news.

Comma reached its financial goal to turn The Spokesman-Review into a community nonprofit: What’s next? The Spokesman-Review shared some big news with more than 800 readers this week at the Northwest Passages Book Club. The nonprofit Comma Community Journalism Lab has reached its first big step by meeting its fundraising goal.

Thank you to the Auntie’s team for joining this special evening and for generously sharing gift certificates with Northwest Passages Book Club readers.

“My little corner of Wyoming and Sheriff Longmire’s Absaroka County stand apart from the antics ripped from the current headlines. The billionaire influx over in Jackson Hole is a pretty isolated occurrence and really doesn’t have much of an effect on those of us in the rest of the state. I like to keep it that way”

Dispatch from Wyoming: Why I dodge billionaires, smartphones and artificial intelligence For 20-some years I’ve been writing about the sheriff of the least-populated county in the scarcely populated state of Wyoming, but only five years have passed for Walt Longmire.

Bestselling author Shelby Van Pelt brings “Remarkably Bright Creatures” to the Northwest Passages Book Club Tuesday night. In Further Review, Charles Apple explores the movie, the novel and the science of octopuses.

Check out 13 fresh fiction and nonfiction titles for summer reading + 3 bestsellers by Shelby Van Pelt, Peter Heller and George Takei that have inspired new adaptations and community book clubs.

Dive into these 13 new books for summer Our summer reading list includes the adventures of a time-traveling Idaho “tradwife,” a romance scammer who meets his match, and a serial killer who suddenly strikes again 25 years later.

“Am I making this movie my entire personality for the next month? Yes I am.”
—bestselling author Shelby Van Pelt, who joins Northwest Passages on May 12.