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In partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting, Literary Arts is building a retrospective of some of the most engaging talks from the world’s best writers over the first 30 years of Portland Arts & Lectures in Portland. In conjunction with our 30th annive

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    Malcolm Gladwell in Conversation (Rebroadcast)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2025 77:48


    This episode features Malcolm Gladwell in conversation about his newest book, Revenge of The Tipping Point. He spoke with Literary Arts executive director Andrew Proctor in front of a live audience in downtown Portland in October 2024.

    National Book Foundation Presents: Awards & Activism

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2025 60:05


    National Book Foundation Presents: Awards & Activism at the 2024 Portland Book Festival with Robert Samuels and m.s. RedCherries.

    M. Gessen

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2025 75:27


    This episode features M. Gessen, the final speaker of the 2024/25 Portland Arts & Lectures series at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.

    First Generation Food: Kristina Cho, Jolyn Chen & Louis Lin

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2025 56:40


    Tune into this conversation about the infusion of cultural heritage and lineage into recipes which showcase first-generation American food.

    Emily Wilson

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2025 81:26


    In this episode, we feature Emily Wilson speaking as part of Portland Arts & Lectures at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in April 2025.

    Green Planet: Ferris Jabr & Amy Stewart

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2025 61:37


    Celebrate Earth Day with fresh insights from authors and environmentalists Ferris Jabr and Amy Stewart at the 2024 Portland Book Festival.

    Verselandia! 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2025 56:29


    Journey through Verselandia! 2024 with performances from the event and interviews with this year's hopefuls.

    Everybody Reads 2025: Javier Zamora

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2025 57:38


    In this episode, we bring you a talk from Javier Zamora. It was the culminating event of the 2025 Everybody Read's program.

    Be a Revolution: Ijeoma Oluo & Hanif Fazal

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2025 58:36


    This episode features Ijeoma Oluo, author of Be a Revolution, in conversation with author Hanif Fazal at the 2024 Portland Book Festival.

    Alice Hoffman in Conversation with Vailey Oehlke

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2025 50:46


    Celebrated novelist and screenwriter, Alice Hoffman in conversation with the Director of the Multnomah County Library Vailey Oehlke at Wordstock: Portland's Book Festival.

    Michael Ondaatje REBROADCAST

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2025 51:53


    Michael Ondaatje shares multiple sequences from his critically acclaimed fourth novel, Anil's Ghost.

    Reconciliation: Renée Watson & Joe Wilkins

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2025 57:27


    A conversation from Portland Book Festival 2024 called Reconciliation with authors Renée Watson and Joe Wilkins, moderated by Mitchell S. Jackson.

    Richard Powers

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2025 52:54


    This episode features a conversation with author Richard Powers from the 2024 Portland Book Festival.

    Annie Dillard

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2025 52:42


    This week, we're reaching way back into our archive to feature a talk from Pulitzer Prize winning writer Annie Dillard's special event in 1989.

    Gabrielle Zevin: Everybody Reads 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2025 76:40


    Every year, the Multnomah County Library chooses one book they hope the whole city of Portland will read. Between January and April, the Library, and their partner organizations, host events based around the themes of the book, and they distribute thousands of free copies—thanks to the Library Foundation—to readers of all ages from across the county. Here at Literary Arts, our role is to bring the author to town for a talk in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.   This year, the 2025 Everybody Reads selection is the memoir Solito by Javier Zamora. For information about how to engage with the program, visit the Multnomah County Library's web site. I am thrilled to say Javier Zamora will be in Portland on Tuesday, March 11 at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall for the culminating event of the 2025 Everybody Reads Program.   For now, let's return to the 2024 Everybody Reads event, featuring Gabrielle Zevin and her novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.   Gabrielle Zevin has been steadily publishing fiction for almost two decades and has also written occasional criticism as well as award-winning screenplays. But it was Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow that catapulted her to the stratosphere of literary stardom. It was a #1 New York Times bestseller and spent over 50 weeks on the fiction bestseller list.    To be sure, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow is about video games, and makes a convincing argument for the power and potential of narrative storytelling in video games. But really, it is about making art, and questions about originality, appropriation, and ambition that come with that pursuit. And perhaps more so, it is a love story, about friends and creative partners, and the excitement, joy, tragedy, and betrayal that come with any long relationship. It's about something, I'd wager, we've all been thinking about the past few years: connection.    Tickets for Everybody Reads 2025 with Javier Zamora are on sale now! Find your tickets here.  Gabrielle Zevin is a New York Times best-selling novelist whose books have been translated into forty languages.   Her tenth novel, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, was a New York Times Best Seller, a Sunday Times Best Seller, and a selection of the Tonight Show's Fallon Book Club. Tomorrow was Amazon.com's #1 Book of the Year, Time Magazine's #1 Book of the Year, a New York Times Notable Book, and the winner of both the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction and the Book of the Month Club's Book of the Year. Following a twenty-five-bidder auction, the feature film rights to Tomorrow were acquired by Temple Hill and Paramount Studios.  The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry also spent many months on the New York Times Best Seller List. A.J. Fikry was honored with the Southern California Independent Booksellers Award for Fiction, the Japan Booksellers' Prize, among other honors. A.J. Fikry is now a feature film with a screenplay by Zevin. She has also written children's books, including the award-winning Elsewhere.   She is the screenwriter of Conversations with Other Women (Helena Bonham Carter) for which she received an Independent Spirit Award Nomination for Best First Screenplay. She has occasionally written criticism for the New York Times Book Review and NPR's All Things Considered, and she began her writing career, at age fourteen, as a music critic for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. Zevin is a graduate of Harvard University. She lives in Los Angeles. 

    Reading Romance at Portland Book Festival 2024

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2025 69:11


    Celebrate Valentine's Day weekend with romance writers from the 2024 Portland Book Festival.

    Timothy Egan

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2025 78:58


    In this episode, we feature Tim Egan speaking as part of Portland Arts & Lectures at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in January 2025.

    Ta-Nehisi Coates in conversation with Omar El Akkad

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2025 67:50


    This episode features Ta-Nehisi Coates in conversation with Omar El Akkad from the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in October 2024.

    Rachel Kushner & Danzy Senna

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2025 58:18


    Revisiting the 2024 Portland Book Festival with the "Deceit and Dark Humor" panel, featuring student readings from Writers in the Schools.

    Paul Auster & Siri Hustvedt

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2025 64:25


    This week's episode features Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt when they interviewed each other for a special event hosted by Literary Arts in 2006.

    Abraham Verghese

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2025 69:42


    Portland Arts & Lectures welcomes back Abraham Verghese to discuss his second novel, The Covenant of Water.

    Connie Chung

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2025 65:09


    In this episode, we feature a conversation with Connie Chung from her September 2024 event with Literary Arts.

    Salman Rushdie (Rebroadcast)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2024 52:30


    In this episode of The Archive Project, author Salman Rushdie reads from and discusses his 1999 novel, The Ground Beneath Her Feet.

    Rita Dove (Rebroadcast)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2024 50:28


    During her Stone Award acceptance interview, Dove discusses her writing process, adapting her work to the stage, and facing fear through poetry, among other subjects.

    Yann Martel (Rebroadcast)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2024 51:23


    In this episode, we revisit a Portland Arts & Lectures event with author Yann Martel where he reads selections from his award-winning novel, Life of Pi, and answers audience questions about the book.

    2024 Portland Book Festival

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2024 57:49


    Update your TBR list: 2024 Portland Book Festival authors recommend some of their favorite writers and titles featured at the event.

    Madeline Miller, in conversation with Omar El Akkad (Rebroadcast)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2024 55:11


    Novelist Madeline Miller speaks about Greek myths and how she approaches her retellings in this 2021 talk and interview with Omar El Akkad.

    Phil Knight (REBROADCAST)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2024 75:11


    In this episode of The Archive Project, we revist a rare public appearance for the release of his 2016 memoir, Shoe Dog, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the story of the man behind the swoosh.

    Amy Tan (REBROADCAST)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2024 54:18


    Novelist Amy Tan talks about her life and early writing career, including writing The Joy Luck Club, in this lecture from 1991.

    Malcolm Gladwell in Conversation

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2024 77:48


    This episode features Malcolm Gladwell in conversation about his newest book, Revenge of The Tipping Point. He spoke with Literary Arts executive director Andrew Proctor in front of a live audience in downtown Portland in October 2024.

    Renée Watson, I See My Light Shining

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2024 51:15


    This episode features acclaimed writer Renée Watson speaking at the World Stage Theater as part of the “I See My Light Shining” event in June 2024

    Erica Berry & Sabrina Imbler (REBROADCAST)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2024 59:10


    From the 2023 Portland Book Festival on the relationships between humans and animals, and on our ideas about the meaning of animals. 

    The Future: Naomi Alderman (REBROADCAST)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2024 57:55


    Naomi Alderman discusses her novel The Future, about friends who plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech billionaires threatening it.

    Viet Thanh Nguyen, in conversation with Tommy Orange (REBROADCAST)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2024 57:42


    Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his family, the American Dream, and his memoir, A Man of Two Faces, in this conversation with Tommy Orange.

    Tom Spanbauer

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2024 54:13


    This episode is a celebration of the life of writer and teacher Tom Spanbauer, who passed away on September 21, 2024.

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    Aimee Nezhukumatathil (REBROADCAST)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2024 58:56


    In celebration of National Poetry Month, this episode features poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil at Portland Arts & Lectures. 

    Jane Hirshfield and Major Jackson (REBROADCAST)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2024 60:00


    This week, we continue to celebrate National Poetry Month with a conversation from the 2023 Portland Book Festival featuring Jane Hirshfield and Major Jackson with moderator Matthew Zapruder.

    A Tribute to Barry Lopez (REBROADCAST)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2024 64:50


    John Freeman, Jane Hirshfield, and Debra Gwartney honor Barry Lopez as part of 2023 Portland Book Festival Cover to Cover event series with Broadway Books Year of Reading Barry Lopez.

    Verselandia! 2023 (REBROADCAST)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2024 53:16


    Dive into Verselandia! Portland's annual youth poetry slam championship, with performances from 2023's event and interviews with this year's hopefuls

    Barbara Kingsolver, in conversation with Jess Walter

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2024 75:23


    Barbara Kingsolver discusses her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Demon Copperhead, with Jess Walter at this live event in Portland, Oregon.

    Charles Yu (REBROADCAST)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2024 58:56


    With his signature humor, author Charles Yu deconstructs the “lecture” genre and by doing so reveals profound insights into what it means to be human. 

    Everybody Reads: Ruth Ozeki (REBROADCAST)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2024 51:43


    Ruth Ozeki, the featured author for Everybody Reads 2023, speaks about reading, writing, and the power of storytelling in her metafictional novel A Tale for the Time Being.

    Eat Your Vegetables: Writing Vegetarian Cookbooks (REBROADCAST

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2024 72:34


    A conversation on food, cooking, family, traditions, and storytelling. And like some of the best meals, it just happens to be vegetarian.

    Mary Beard (REBROADCAST)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2024 72:34


    Renowned classicist Mary Beard takes us back in time to ancient Rome, in this lecture about the making of her latest book, Emperor of Rome.

    Caryl Phillips (REBROADCAST)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2024 70:02


    Celebrated author Caryl Phillips discusses the life and impact of singer-songwriter Marvin Gaye in this lecture from 1999.

    Michael Lewis: Going Infinite (REBROADCAST)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2024 65:30


    In the wake of the Sam Bankman-Fried trial, Michael Lewis discusses Going Infinite, his book exploring the rise and fall of Bankman-Fried's cryptocurrency hedge fund and exchange.

    Tracy K. Smith, in Conversation with Major Jackson (REBROADCAST)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2024 52:26


    Tracy K. Smith discusses her latest poetry collection, To Free the Captives, in this conversation with fellow poet, Major Jackson.

    David Grann (REBROADCAST)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2024 74:40


    Literary journalist David Grann talks about writing adventure and true crime stories, including The Wager and Killers of the Flower Moon.

    Tom Hanks, in Conversation with Jon Raymond (REBROADCAST)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2024


    Legendary actor Tom Hanks shares his debut novel, as well as anecdotes from his storied career, in this conversation with screenwriter Jon Raymond.

    Ann Patchett (REBROADCAST)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2024


    Ann Patchett discusses her latest best-selling novel, Tom Lake, with Cheryl Strayed in this conversation recorded in Portland, Oregon.

    Zadie Smith, in conversation with Parul Sehgal (REBROADCAST)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2024


    Zadie Smith, joined by Parul Sehgal, sparkles with humor and insight in this conversation about her latest novel, The Fraud.

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