
The Archive Project
In partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting, Literary Arts is building a retrospective of some of the most engaging talks from the world’s best writers over the first 30 years of Portland Arts & Lectures in Portland.
Show episodes
Journey through Verselandia! 2024 with performances from the 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.
A conversation from Portland Book Festival 2024 called Reconciliation with authors Renée Watson and Joe Wilkins, moderated by Mitchell S. Jackson.