Literary Arts: The Archive Project

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

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

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

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

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

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

In this episode, we bring you a talk from Javier Zamora. It was the culminating event of the 2025 Everybody Read’s 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: Portland’s Book Festival.

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