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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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