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

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

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

Michael Ondaatje shares multiple sequences from his critically acclaimed fourth novel, Anils Ghost.

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

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

This week, were reaching way back into our archive to feature a talk from Pulitzer Prize winning writer Annie Dillards special event in 1989.

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 aro

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

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