These recordings were captured during Lit Crawl Portland 2018, the night before the Portland Book Festival. Lit Crawl and the 2019 Portland Book Festival return on Friday, November 8, and Saturday, November 9, respectively.

Sam Sifton, food editor of the New York Times, interviews chef Edward Lee about his new book, Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine.

Parul Sehgal, book critic at the New York Times, interviews Tom Hanks about his bestselling short story collection Uncommon Type: Some Stories.

Nonfiction author and New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell examines the idea of the underdog and why some people just won’t give up, despite the odds.

Jacqueline Woodson, acclaimed author of more than two dozen award-winning books for children and young adults, discusses writing and her career.

National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez discusses his new book Horizon, during the launch event in Portland, Oregon.

Students who participated in the 2018 Verselandia! City-wide Youth Poetry Competition share their original pieces in front of a live audience, emceed by poet Anis Mojgani.

Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and Whiting Award recipient Mitchell Jackson in conversation at the 2019 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, sponsored by Literary Arts and Lyceum Agency.

W.S. Merwin, acclaimed, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, answers questions in Portland’s Newmark Theatre, followed by a reading from his 2005 National Book Award-winning collection, Migration.

In this episode, Jennifer Egan discusses her process for researching her most recent novel Manhattan Beach and the many inspiring people and places she discovered along the way.