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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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