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The award, to be given in mid-April, recognizes a mid-career fiction writer of “national consequence.” Vlautin calls the nomination a lucky break.
March 12, 2025Lori Tobias
The nonprofit sponsors this week’s comedy festival and Get Lit at the Beach in April, as well as an autumn celebration of Indigenous heritage, art classes, concerts in the park, and a mini-golf fundraiser.
March 12, 2025Jim Flint
Ashland photographer Christopher Briscoe will talk of his experiences and his new book, "The Women of Ukraine," at the Southern Oregon Photographic Association meeting March 18 in Medford.
March 9, 2025William C. Stack
Speaking in the Hatfield Lecture Series, historian Lindsay Chervinsky talks about her book "Making the Presidency" and the path Adams paved as our second president.
March 7, 2025Amy Wang
The second novel by Russell, whose "Swamplandia!" was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, goes on sale March 11.
March 6, 2025Amy Leona Havin
The author of "A Journey of One's Own," who helped come up with the marriage-equality slogan “love is love," will be honored on International Women’s Day.
March 4, 2025Richard W. Etulain
Dye, a supporter of the woman's suffrage movement, also brought attention, through her book, to the important role of Sacagawea.
March 2, 2025Amy Leona Havin
Spring brings an inaugural book festival in Hood River, a tour by Oregon's Poet Laureate, readings, and workshops.
March 2, 2025Elizabeth Mehren
Street poets gather weekly at the "School in the Sky" to study poetry and create their own, some of which is on display in a words-and-art exhibit at Central Library.
February 25, 2025Bob Hicks
The Oregon Book Award winner for "Within Normal Limits," who has died at age 73, was acclaimed "the greatest horror writer you've never read" for his vampire novel "Stainless."
February 24, 2025David Bates
The Portland author, who will speak Feb. 27 in McMinnville, talks about the fluidity of gender, the everyday realities of being trans, and growing up in an Arizona trailer park.
February 16, 2025Amy Wang
The Portland writer’s first two picture books – “A Stone Is a Story” and “One Day This Tree Will Fall” – are both in the running for the Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children’s Literature.
February 6, 2025William C. Stack
The celebrated journalist, historian, activist and onetime Portlander gives a revealing and triumphant talk in the Oregon Historical Society's Hatfield Lecture Series.
February 2, 2025Richard W. Etulain
Some literary historians consider the book the most important novel of the Pacific Northwest written during the 19th century.
January 30, 2025Amy Wang
Patrons designed promotional logos for the library and, during a “Library Love-In,” wrote postcards about what the library means to them.
January 28, 2025Karen Pate
The awards, to be given April 28, will recognize authors in seven categories, as well as two Portlanders who have improved the state's literary landscape.
January 28, 2025Amy Leona Havin
This month brings Hannah-Jones, author of "The 1619 Project," to Oregon, as well as appearances by poets Ross Gay and Judith Barrington, among others.
December 30, 2024Amy Leona Havin
Authors giving readings this month include Erica Berry, Marat Grinberg, Judith Barrington, and Sen. Ron Wyden.
December 29, 2024Amy Leona Havin
A new home for Literary Arts, a new poet laureate, some major library remodels, an overflow of book festivals and a shelf full of new books by Oregon writers put a shine on the literary year.
December 24, 2024Amanda Waldroupe
Most challenged books in Oregon have LGBTQ themes or authors; proposed legislation would make it illegal to censor books about protected classes.
December 23, 2024Amanda Waldroupe
Libraries have ordered more copies to keep up with the sudden demand to read books that some would ban.
December 22, 2024Amanda Waldroupe
The most common reasons for book challenges include unsuited to age group; LGBTQ content; depicts sex, nudity, abuse; or contains profanity, according to the State Library of Oregon's 2024 report.
December 20, 2024Amy Leona Havin
Josephine Woolington, Waka T. Brown, Nora Ericson, and Daniela Molnar offer suggestions ranging from picture books, to poetry, to a monthly letter of romantic, erotic stories.
December 7, 2024Karen Pate
Portland's 40-year-old nonprofit hub of all things literary celebrates the opening of its new eastside headquarters and bookstore.
December 5, 2024Amy Leona Havin
The 91-year-old also wrote a novel, "The Fort Showalter Blues," based on his experience in the Army.
December 3, 2024Amy Leona Havin
Festive events include opportunities for book shopping, The Moth Mainstage, and a story time for pups.
November 23, 2024David Bates
The 2024 releases include a novel, poetry, nonfiction, and memoir.
November 17, 2024Richard W. Etulain
The poetic satire pitted Democrats against Whigs in a story of a judge willing to break laws to fulfill his outsized political ambitions.
November 4, 2024Amanda Waldroupe
Hope and wonder for the world were shared themes in conversations with a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, an “Atlas Obscura” editor, and an expert on mushrooms.
November 3, 2024Amy Wang
Crowds attending Saturday's celebration of reading listened to author panels, shopped in a book fair, and watched illustrators draw chimeric animals from children's prompts.
