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Episodes: 567
Frequency: Irregular
Rating: 4.6/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1k-10k
Gender skew: Neutral
Location: USA
YouTube: 727 subscribers
Instagram: 19.0k followers
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Andrew Proctor - Executive director of Literary Arts and co-host of the series, which presents talks from Portland Arts & Lectures.
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Tracy Kidder - Long-form Journalism, Nonfiction Craft, Writing Process, Mentorship, And The Making Of Influential Books.
Patrick Radden Keefe - Investigative Journalism, Nonfiction Research, Narrative Structure, Institutional Power, And Writing Complex True Stories.
Javier Zamora - Migration, Memoir, Poetry, Family, Language, And The Development Of A Writer.
Colm Tóibín - Fiction Writing, Literary Craft, Family, Memory, Character Development, And The Relationship Between Life Experience And Novels.
Timothy Snyder - History, Political Thought, Freedom, Authoritarianism, And The Relationship Between Historical Events And Present-day Civic Life.
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Episodes
Scot Nakagawa in conversation with Andrew Proctor
August 27, 2026
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 cultural amenity but democratic infrastructure. It is the most sensitive indicator we have of the health of a free society. Drawing on the historical record from Nazi Germany to contemporary Hungary, and on the latest research on nonviolent civil resistance, Nakagawa argues that the assault on arts funding, public media, and fre...
Verselandia! 2025 (Rebroadcast)
August 27, 2026
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 for the title of city-wide Portland slam champ at Verselandia!, in front of an audience of nearly 1,000. The 2026 Verselandia! competition returns to the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall on Thursday, April 30 at 7 pm. For more information and tickets visit our website literary-arts.org. On this episode, we go backstage at Versela...
Javier Zamora (Rebroadcast)
August 19, 2026
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, host events based around the themes of the book, and they distribute thousands of free copies—thanks to the Library Foundation—to readers of all ages from across the county. At Literary Arts, our role is to bring the author to town for a talk in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. The 2025 Everybody Reads book was the memoir Soli...
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