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.
November 1, 2024Amanda Waldroupe
The editor of "Atlas Obscura: Wild Life," discusses the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, biodiversity, and a bug that lives on the open ocean.
November 1, 2024Fran Gardner
The author of the “Miss Peregrine” series of books about peculiar children will discuss “The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry,” his first foray into Sunderworld.
October 31, 2024Brett Campbell
Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble and Literary Arts team up in a concert of original jazz inspired by Oregon books
October 31, 2024Amy Leona Havin
The Linfield University professor has written poetry, novels, essays, and memoir. "Working with language and story somehow gets me back into the way I need to be," he says.
October 30, 2024David Sarasohn
The Washington Post reporter refuses to be discouraged. “Undoing bias is hard,” he says. “These kinds of reforms take years and years and years.”
October 29, 2024Amy Wang
The two-time Oregon Book Award winner says she initially drew inspiration from her three sons. Seeing them coming of age was “almost like a revisiting of that time when I learned to love books.”
October 28, 2024Amy Wang
Amanda Bullock, the festival’s lead curator, explains how featured books are chosen, and festival volunteers talk about the fun of being “in the real mix of it.”
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 11, 2024Karen Pate
Other authors scheduled to appear at the Nov. 2 event include Robert Samuels, R.O. Kwon, Rachel Kushner, Willy Vlautin, Carson Ellis, and many, many more.
