On today's episode, we welcome Amy Mason Doan, author of the novel The
California Dreamers from Graydon House. Amy is the bestselling author of
three previous novels: Lady Sunshine, The Summer List, and Summer Hours.
Before turning to fiction, she worked as a reporter an...
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On today's episode, we welcome Brandon Hoang, author of the YA novel Gloria
Buenrostro is Not My Girlfriend, from Macmillan Publishing. The book was a
finalist for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrator’s
Golden Kite Award and was named as one of the Youn...
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The start of November brings two of our favorite annual events in Portland
– the Portland Book Festival, which we previewed on yesterday’s News In
Depth with director Amanda Bullock, and the Portland Youth Philharmonic’s
season opening concert, both taking place this Sat...
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The annual Portland Book Festival is our city’s biggest literary event, and
one of the most popular on the entire West Coast. This year’s festival
takes place Saturday, November 8th, just a few days away, and features
on-stage discussions with over 100 authors and interv...
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On today's episode, we welcome Gigi Little, author of the debut novel Who
Killed One the Gun? from Forest Avenue Press. I first interviewed Gigi nine
years ago for an anthology she edited City of Weird: 30 Otherworldly Portland
Tales. Since then, I’ve talked with Gigi fo...
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On today's episode, we welcome Leni Zumas, author of the new novel Wolf Bells
from Algonquin Books. Leni was a finalist for the 2021 John Dos Passos Prize
for Literature. Her work includes the story collection Farewell Navigator,
and the novels The Listeners and Red Cloc...
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Katherine Dunn is one of Portland’s literary giants. Her highly praised and
widely read novel Geek Love was a finalist for the 1989 National Book Award
and was named one of The Atlantic’s “Great American Novels”.
Katherine was an inspiration and mentor to many writers h...
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This month we’re celebrating William T. Vollmann, one of our greatest
American writers. Bill’s prodigious catalog includes novels, story
collections, a memoir, non-fiction books, including the multi-volume Rising
Up and Rising Down and Carbon Ideologies, and numerous pie...
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Our In Depth guests today are Gail Pasternack and Debra Zaslow, two of the
editors for the new anthology The Rooster Princess and Other Tales: Jewish
Stories Re-populated with Spunky Heroines, Wise Women, Brave Crones, and
Powerful Prophetesses, from Monkfish Press.
Gai...
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One of our greatest American writers, William T. Vollmann, has a new novel
coming out early next year. And it’s a big one in every way. Bill is known
for massive works of both fiction and non-fiction, but the new novel, A Table
For Fortune, is his longest. I mean like Re...
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