Daniel James Brown, author of The Boys in the Boat, was the featured author for the 2015 Whatcom Reads countywide reading and discussion program; Village Books in Bellingham, Wash., is a community partner. (Authors in previous years include Sherman Alexie, Tobias Wolff, Jim Lynch, Elizabeth George, David Guterson and Cheryl Strayed.) More than 950 people attended "An Evening with Daniel James Brown" at the Mount Baker Theater, and some 200 enjoyed his afternoon book talk, among other program events. Ruth Ozeki will be the 2016 Whatcom Reads author, for her book A Tale for the Time Being.
Here, Brown narrates a clip from Leni Riefenstahl's film Olympia, showing the final 8-oar race at the Olympics in Berlin in 1936.