Summer arrives with a week of bookstore events and appearances by Karen Russell, Bill Ayers, Jane Kirkpatrick, and queer storytellers.
April 30, 2025Amy Leona Havin
Also this month: Amanda Knox tells her story, trans nature writing, journalists on Asian Pacific America, mountain rescue, and many poets.
March 30, 2025Amy Leona Havin
Literary Arts will present the 2025 Oregon Book Awards on April 28. Also this month, authors discuss the high cost of rent, the 1906 wreck of the steamship Valencia, and Robert Crumb.
March 2, 2025Amy Leona Havin
Spring brings an inaugural book festival in Hood River, a tour by Oregon's Poet Laureate, readings, and workshops.
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 3, 2024Amy Leona Havin
Festive events include opportunities for book shopping, The Moth Mainstage, and a story time for pups.
October 27, 2024Amy Leona Havin
More than 100 writers and interviewers will talk about books -- fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, graphic novels, and books for children and young readers -- during the Nov. 2 festival.
September 30, 2024Amy Leona Havin
The month's literary readings range from ghostly howls to journeys with an imaginary dog, a novitiate nun in the flower power '60s, poetry, memoirs, discovering new places, and more.
August 29, 2024Amy Leona Havin
An array of September readings and book gatherings around Oregon ushers in fall reading season.
July 29, 2024Amy Leona Havin
Other literary events include appearances by authors of books on whitewater canoeing in Alaska, Eugene's first organic vegetarian restaurant, and American explorers.
June 28, 2024Amy Leona Havin
Other summer events include poetry readings, a memoir by the scion of a gangster family, and a 4th of July book sale in Cannon Beach.
May 30, 2024Amy Leona Havin
Other June events include two appearances by New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof, a memoir workshop led by Leanne Grabel, and readings by Oregon author Victor Lodato in Bend, Hood River and Sunriver.
April 29, 2024Amy Leona Havin
Other bookish events include readings from and release of Write Around Portland's 62nd anthology, readings by Oregon Literary Fellows, and an opportunity to stargaze in Bend.
April 3, 2024Amy Leona Havin
Poets aplenty are on the literary calendar this month, as well as journalist Elizabeth Mehren and the Terroir Creative Writing Festival in Newberg.
March 3, 2024Amy Leona Havin
Other literary events this month include readings by nine writers at the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center in Newport and a celebration of small presses.
January 31, 2024Amy Leona Havin
Other bookish events this month include jazz bassist Chuck Israels on his musical memoir, Doran Larson's look at prisons from the inside, and Hamilton Nolan on the labor movement.
January 3, 2024Amy Leona Havin
A new year brings a Fishtrap workshop, as well as authors talking about philanthropy, Higgs boson, and becoming a better cook. And chickens.
December 2, 2023Amy Leona Havin
Settle into winter with a holiday book fair, a new cookbook from a Northwest Jewish kitchen, an author appearance by Henry Winkler, and a solstice story time.
October 30, 2023Amy Leona Havin
The Nov. 4 festival lineup includes Viet Thanh Nguyen, Michael Lewis, Roz Chast, Gregory Gourdet, Mitchell S. Jackson, Luis Alberto Urrea, Alice Winn, Jonathan Lethem, Patrick deWitt, Lydia Kiesling, and so much more.
October 2, 2023Amy Leona Havin
Warm up with M.R. O'Connor on the science of wildfires, poetry readings, and Halloween story time.
August 28, 2023Amy Leona Havin
Authors appearing around the state include Ann Patchett, Chuck Palahniuk, Casey Parks, Paulann Petersen, and others with names not beginning with P.
July 24, 2023Amy Leona Havin
Readings in August include the authors of books about a 2,500-mile bike ride, Portland's Forest Park, and comedian Ernie Kovacs.
June 30, 2023Amy Leona Havin
Everlasting summer brings readings by surfing legend Gerry Lopez and the authors of a new book celebrating Steely Dan.
June 1, 2023Amy Leona Havin
Other readings this month feature Portland poet Carlos Reyes, Ken Jennings of "Jeopardy!" fame, and photographer Jamie Beck's exploration of Provence.
May 2, 2023Amy Leona Havin
Tom Hanks comes to Portland to talk about his first novel, poet Jessica Mehta heads to Cannon Beach, and Oregon Book Award recipients go on tour.
April 2, 2023Amy Leona Havin
It's poetry month. It's Oregon Book Awards month. Authors talk about how to foster community and to preserve Black culture through a feminist lens. And Chewy the Beaver makes a special appearance in Bend.
March 2, 2023Amy Leona Havin
March brings ambitious projects: Writers imagining themselves in Ernest Hemingway's shoes, a modern riff on "Finnegans Wake," and a browse of the typical Soviet Jewish bookshelf.
January 29, 2023Amy Leona Havin
Love is in the literary air at several readings this month, and Literary Arts looks toward spring with its announcement of 2023 Oregon Book Award finalists.
January 1, 2023Amy Leona Havin
2023 begins with readings by authors including Erika Bolstad, Nathan Slinker, Leanne Grabel, Bill Siverly, Curtis White, Dianne Stepp, and Josephine Woolington.
