The Archive Project

Michael Lewis (Rebroadcast)

In this episode, we feature a conversation with Michael Lewis from the 2023 Portland Book Festival. Lewis is one of the most accomplished and celebrated writers of nonfi

Annie Dillard (Rebroadcast)

This week, we’re reaching way back into our archive to feature a talk from Pulitzer Prize winning writer Annie Dillard’s special event in 1989.  We’re broadcasting this t

Portland Monuments Project: Future (Rebroadcast)

The City of Portland is engaged in a national dialogue about public art, history, monuments, and memorials. With support from the Mellon Foundation, the Portland Monument

Portland Monuments Project: Present (Present)

The City of Portland is engaged in a national dialogue about public art, history, monuments, and memorials. With support from the Mellon Foundation, the Portland Monument

Portland Monuments Project: Past (Rebroadcast)

The City of Portland is engaged in a national dialogue about public art, history, monuments, and memorials. With support from the Mellon Foundation, the Portland Monument

Funny Story: Kristen Arnett & Jess Walter (Rebroadcast)

This week features a conversation on humor in fiction featuring two masters of the genre: Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things and, most recently, Stop Me If You’

Scot Nakagawa in conversation with Andrew Proctor

In this urgent presentation, strategist and democracy defender Scot Nakagawa, co-founder of the 22nd Century Initiative, makes the case that artistic freedom is not a cul

Verselandia! 2025 (Rebroadcast)

Each year, Portland youth spend months writing and competing in poetry slam competitions on high school campuses across the city. Each April, about 20 finalists compete f

Javier Zamora (Rebroadcast)

Every year, the Multnomah County Library chooses one book they hope the whole city will read. Between January and April, the Library, and their partner organizations, hos

Patrick Radden Keefe (Rebroadcast)

In the words of the Los Angeles Times, “A new book by (Patrick Radden) Keefe means drop everything and close the blinds; you’ll be turning pages for hours.” Keefe is an

Tracy Kidder (Rebroadcast)

In this episode we feature one of the giants of story telling and of long form journalism, Tracy Kidder. Kidder passed away at the age of 80 in March 2026, and so we are

Timothy Snyder (Rebroadcast)

This week we are bringing you a conversation that Literary Arts hosted in October 2025 with historian and political philosopher Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny, who

Colm Toíbín (Rebroadcast)

Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, three short story collections and several works of nonfiction. He has written countless articles, plays, an opera libretto and

Emma Donoghue in conversation (Rebroadcast)

In this episode, we feature the beloved Irish novelist Emma Donoghue, in conversation with OPB’s Crystal Ligori, from the 2025 Portland Book Festival.  Emma Donoghue has

Jill Lepore (Rebroadcast)

Jill Lepore is a Harvard professor and contributing writer to the New Yorker. Her books include The Secret History of Wonder Woman, New York Burning, These Truths: A Hist

Jasmine Guillory and Adib Khorram (Rebroadcast)

If you like Heated Rivalry – if you don’t, you’re the only one, but anyway – if you like Heated Rivalry and want more queer romance but wish it had more wine, we’ve got t

Better Worlds: A Panel on Ursula K. Le Guin’s Legacy (Rebroadcast)

In this episode of The Archive Project, we feature a discussion on late writer Ursula K. Le Guin’s legacy of pacifism and environmentalism. Our moderator is Theo Downes-L

Stacey Abrams (Rebroadcast)

Stacey Abrams is probably best-known as a politician and political organizer; she the first Black woman in U.S. history to become the gubernatorial nominee of a major pol

Marjane Satrapi

This episode, we bring you Marjane Satrapi. She gave this talk on April 7, 2008, just about one year after the film adaptation of her comic Persepolis had been featured a

Taylor Byas & m mick powell in conversation with Jae Nichelle (Rebroadcast)

We’re taking it back to the 2025 Portland Book Festival this weekend, with poets m. mick powell and Taylor Byas, and moderater Jae Nichelle.   Taylor Byas’s second colle