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The Archive Project — 551 episodes
Portland Monuments Project: Present
Patrick Radden Keefe
Portland Monuments Project: Past
Jill Lepore
Verselandia! 2025
Particia Smith & Pádraig Ó Tuama in conversation
Cathy Park Hong (Rebroadcast)
Funny Story: Kristen Arnett & Jess Walter
NBF Presents: Jason De Léon & Megha Majumdar
Javier Zamora (Rebroadcast)
Colm Tóibín
Jasmine Guillory and Adib Khorram
Tara Roberts in conversation
Nicholas Boggs in conversation
Taylor Byas & m mick powell in conversation with Jae Nichelle
Emma Donoghue in conversation
Omar El Akkad and Karen Russell in Conversation
Barbara Kingsolver, in conversation with Jess Walter (Rebroadcast)
Better Worlds: A Panel on Ursula K. Le Guin’s Legacy (Rebroadcast)
2025 Portland Book Festival
Tommy Orange: Everybody Reads 2020 (Rebroadcast)
Salman Rushdie (Rebroadcast)
Angela Flournoy in Conversation
Timothy Snyder in Conversation
M. Gessen (Rebroadcast)
Ta-Nehisi Coates in conversation with Omar El Akkad (Rebroadcast)
Emily Wilson (Rebroadcast)
Gabrielle Zevin: Everybody Reads 2024 (Rebroadcast)
Be a Revolution: Ijeoma Oluo & Hanif Fazal (Rebroadcast)
Javier Zamora (Rebroadcast)
Timothy Egan (Rebroadcast)
Rachel Kushner & Danzy Senna (Rebroadcast)
Salman Rushdie (Rebroadcast)
Paul Auster & Siri Hustvedt (Rebroadcast)
Connie Chung (Rebroadcast)
Renée Watson, I See My Light Shining (Rebroadcast)
Malcolm Gladwell in Conversation (Rebroadcast)
National Book Foundation Presents: Awards & Activism
M. Gessen
First Generation Food: Kristina Cho, Jolyn Chen & Louis Lin
Emily Wilson
Green Planet: Ferris Jabr & Amy Stewart
Verselandia! 2024
Everybody Reads 2025: Javier Zamora
Be a Revolution: Ijeoma Oluo & Hanif Fazal
Alice Hoffman in Conversation with Vailey Oehlke
Michael Ondaatje REBROADCAST
Reconciliation: Renée Watson & Joe Wilkins
Richard Powers
Annie Dillard
Gabrielle Zevin: Everybody Reads 2024
Reading Romance at Portland Book Festival 2024
Timothy Egan
Ta-Nehisi Coates in conversation with Omar El Akkad
Rachel Kushner & Danzy Senna
Paul Auster & Siri Hustvedt
Connie Chung
Salman Rushdie (Rebroadcast)
Rita Dove (Rebroadcast)
Yann Martel (Rebroadcast)
2024 Portland Book Festival
Madeline Miller, in conversation with Omar El Akkad (Rebroadcast)
Phil Knight (REBROADCAST)
Amy Tan (REBROADCAST)
Malcolm Gladwell in Conversation
Renée Watson, I See My Light Shining
Erica Berry & Sabrina Imbler (REBROADCAST)
The Future: Naomi Alderman (REBROADCAST)
Viet Thanh Nguyen, in conversation with Tommy Orange (REBROADCAST)
Tom Spanbauer
Aimee Nezhukumatathil (REBROADCAST)
Jane Hirshfield and Major Jackson (REBROADCAST)
A Tribute to Barry Lopez (REBROADCAST)
Verselandia! 2023 (REBROADCAST)
Barbara Kingsolver, in conversation with Jess Walter
Charles Yu (REBROADCAST)
Everybody Reads: Ruth Ozeki (REBROADCAST)
Eat Your Vegetables: Writing Vegetarian Cookbooks (REBROADCAST)
Mary Beard (REBROADCAST)
Caryl Phillips (REBROADCAST)
Michael Lewis: Going Infinite (REBROADCAST)
Tracy K. Smith, in Conversation with Major Jackson (REBROADCAST)
David Grann (REBROADCAST)
Tom Hanks, in Conversation with Jon Raymond (REBROADCAST)
Ann Patchett (REBROADCAST)
Zadie Smith, in conversation with Parul Sehgal (REBROADCAST)
A Tribute to Barry Lopez
Tommy Orange (REBROADCAST)
Oregon Humanities Consider This: Eli Saslow
Charles Yu
Erica Berry & Sabrina Imbler
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Verselandia! 2023
Jane Hirshfield & Major Jackson
National Poetry Month 2024
Karen Armstrong (REBROADCAST)
Kesha Ajose Fisher, Anis Mojgani, Ashley Toliver (Rebroadcast)
Everybody Reads: Ruth Ozeki
The Future: Naomi Alderman
Tom Hanks, in conversation with Jon Raymond
Eat Your Vegetables: Writing Vegetarian Cookbooks
David Grann
Tracy K. Smith, in conversation with Major Jackson
Caryl Phillips
Ann Patchett, in conversation with Cheryl Strayed
Viet Thanh Nguyen, in conversation with Tommy Orange
Music & Storytelling with Oregon Symphony & 45th Parallel
Mary Beard
Amor Towles: The Lincoln Highway (Rebroadcast)
Leslie Marmon Silko & Molly Gloss (Rebroadcast)
V. S. Naipaul (Rebroadcast)
PBF Recommended Reading
Barbara Kingsolver, in conversation with Jess Walter
Colson Whitehead, in conversation with Mitchell S. Jackson (Rebroadcast)
Michael Lewis: Going Infinite
Zadie Smith, in conversation with Parul Sehgal
We’ve Got This: Eliza Hull & Rebekah Taussig
George Saunders & Jess Walter (Rebroadcast)
Leila Mottley, in conversation with Mitchell S. Jackson (Rebroadcast)
Boys & Girls in America: Melissa Febos & Hua Hsu (Rebroadcast)
Reza Aslan: An American Martyr in Persia (Rebroadcast)
Barbara Kingsolver (Rebroadcast)
Kwame Alexander, in conversation with Gregory Gourdet (Rebroadcast)
Edwidge Danticat, 2022 (Rebroadcast)
Storytelling for Change: Kiese Laymon & Imbolo Mbue (Rebroadcast)
Verselandia! 2022 (Rebroadcast)
Ann Patchett (Rebroadcast)
Hanif Abdurraqib, Kaveh Akbar, & Leslie Jamison with Alano Club of Portland (Rebroadcast)
Jane Smiley, 1991 (Rebroadcast)
Patrick Radden Keefe (Rebroadcast)
Lauren Groff (Rebroadcast)
Tobias Wolff (Rebroadcast)
Better Worlds: A Panel on Ursula K. Le Guin’s Legacy (Rebroadcast)
Amy Bloom & Michael Cunningham (Rebroadcast)
Pickathon 2022: Jon Raymond & Dao Strom, with Anis Mojgani (Rebroadcast)
Douglas Stuart, in conversation with Omar El Akkad (Rebroadcast)
Kwame Alexander, in conversation with Gregory Gourdet
Louise Erdrich & Trevino Brings Plenty (rebroadcast)
Abdulrazak Gurnah (rebroadcast)
Ellen Hagan & Sabina Khan
Amor Towles: The Lincoln Highway
Edwidge Danticat, 2022
Storytelling for Change: Kiese Laymon & Imbolo Mbue
Ada Limón
Portland Youth Philharmonic & In Mulieribus: Because I Will Not Despair
Charles Simic (Rebroadcast)
Verselandia! 2022
Hanif Abdurraqib, Kaveh Akbar, & Leslie Jamison with Alano Club of Portland
Jane Smiley, 1991
Patrick Radden Keefe
Selma Blair, in conversation with Esmé Weijun Wang
Everybody Reads: Mira Jacob (Rebroadcast)
George Saunders & Jess Walter
Lauren Groff
Leila Mottley, in conversation with Mitchell S. Jackson
Boys & Girls in America: Melissa Febos & Hua Hsu
Tobias Wolff
Better Worlds: A Panel on Ursula K. Le Guin’s Legacy
Russell Banks (Rebroadcast)
Amy Bloom & Michael Cunningham
Elaine May (Rebroadcast)
Tales of Two Planets: Aimee Nezhukumatathil & Kawai Strong Washburn (Rebroadcast)
Pickathon 2022: Jon Raymond & Dao Strom, with Anis Mojgani
Douglas Stuart, in conversation with Omar El Akkad
Reza Aslan: An American Martyr in Persia
Leslie Marmon Silko & Molly Gloss
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Come Fly the World & Matrix (Rebroadcast)
TAP@PBF: Naomi Duguid, The Miracle of Salt
TAP@PBF: Karen Russell & Oregon Symphony
TAP@PBF: Keep Swimming
Three Poets from Portland Book Festival 2021 (rebroadcast)
Gary Shteyngart (Rebroadcast)
Aftermath: Myriam J. A. Chancy & Omar El Akkad (Rebroadcast)
Change: John Freeman with Jakuta Alikavazovic, Lana Bastašić, & Aleksandar Hemon (Rebroadcast)
2021 Portland Book Festival Highlights (Rebroadcast)
Amy Tan (Rebroadcast)
Oregon Shakespeare Festival: The Cymbeline Project (Rebroadcast)
Brit Bennett (Rebroadcast)
Everybody Reads: Celebrating 20 Years (Rebroadcast)
Proving Up: Missy Mazzoli, Karen Russell, & Gabriel Kahane (Rebroadcast)
Stephen King (Rebroadcast)
Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Confederates (Rebroadcast)
Cathy Park Hong (Rebroadcast)
Verselandia! 2021 (Rebroadcast)
Chinese American Cookbooks with Kristina Cho, Brandon Jew, & Tienlon Ho (Rebroadcast)
Oregon Shakespeare Festival: unseen
Daniel James Brown, in conversation with Tom Ikeda (Rebroadcast)
Paul Theroux, 1994 (Rebroadcast)
Oregon Shakespeare Festival: How I Learned What I Learned (Rebroadcast)
Come Fly the World & Matrix
Proving Up: Missy Mazzoli, Karen Russell, & Gabriel Kahane
Chinese American Cookbooks with Kristina Cho, Brandon Jew, & Tienlon Ho
Richard Powers
Amy Tan
Oregon Shakespeare Festival: How I Learned What I Learned
Verselandia! 2021
Three Poets from Portland Book Festival 2021
Charles Simic
Gary Shteyngart
Everybody Reads: Mira Jacob
Brit Bennett
Ash Davidson
Everybody Reads: Celebrating 20 Years
Stephen King
Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Confederates
Cathy Park Hong
Aftermath: Myriam J. A. Chancy & Omar El Akkad
Daniel James Brown, in conversation with Tom Ikeda
Change: John Freeman with Jakuta Alikavazovic, Lana Bastašić, & Aleksandar Hemon
Joan Didion (Rebroadcast)
Ross Gay: Everybody Reads 2021 (Rebroadcast)
Robert Bly (Rebroadcast)
Louise Erdrich & Trevino Brings Plenty
Oregon Shakespeare Festival: The Cymbeline Project
Russell Banks
Stephen Sondheim & Frank Rich (Rebroadcast)
Paul Theroux, 1994
2021 Portland Book Festival Highlights
TAP@PBF: Collective Wisdom with Grace Bonney, Lisa Congdon, Ngọc Minh Ngo, & Sonoko Sakai
TAP@PBF: Reunion with Kaveh Akbar, Melissa Febos, & Megan Stielstra
TAP@PBF: Witches with A. K. Blakemore & Rivka Galchen
TAP@PBF: Change with John Freeman
Tales of Two Planets: Aimee Nezhukumatathil & Kawai Strong Washburn
Hidden Valley Road & The Beauty in Breaking (Rebroadcast)
Book of Revelations: Rumaan Alam & Jonathan Lethem (Rebroadcast)
Family Ties: Brit Bennett & Bryan Washington (Rebroadcast)
Isabel Wilkerson, interviewed by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Rebroadcast)
Yaa Gyasi (Rebroadcast)
Joy Harjo, in conversation with Anis Mojgani (Rebroadcast)
Alison Bechdel, in conversation with Cheryl Strayed (Rebroadcast)
Maxine Hong Kingston (Rebroadcast)
Cornelius Eady (Rebroadcast)
Seamus Heaney (Rebroadcast)
Heather McGhee, interviewed by Anand Giridharadas (Rebroadcast)
Orville Schell (Rebroadcast)
Helen Macdonald (Rebroadcast)
Verselandia! 2019 (Rebroadcast)
Adrienne Rich (Rebroadcast)
Claudia Rankine, interviewed by Jericho Brown (Rebroadcast)
Min Jin Lee (Rebroadcast)
Margaret Atwood, interviewed by Karen Russell (Rebroadcast)
Yaa Gyasi
Joy Harjo, in conversation with Anis Mojgani
Alison Bechdel, in conversation with Cheryl Strayed
Ross Gay: Everybody Reads 2021
Hanif Abdurraqib, Clint Smith, & Anis Mojgani
2021 Oregon Book Awards
Artists Repertory Theatre
Verselandia! 2019
Adrienne Rich
Seamus Heaney
Portland Center Stage: PROTOCOL
Hidden Valley Road & The Beauty in Breaking
Heather McGhee, interviewed by Anand Giridharadas
Book of Revelations: Rumaan Alam & Jonathan Lethem
Orville Schell
Family Ties: Brit Bennett & Bryan Washington
Madeline Miller, interviewed by Omar El Akkad
Jess Walter, interviewed by Andrew Proctor
Claudia Rankine, interviewed by Jericho Brown
Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin (Rebroadcast)
Margaret Atwood, interviewed by Karen Russell
Barry Lopez: Horizon (Rebroadcast)
Helen Macdonald
Isabel Wilkerson, interviewed by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Colson Whitehead, interviewed by Mitchell S. Jackson
Susan Orlean (Rebroadcast)
2020 Portland Book Festival Highlights, Week 3
2020 Portland Book Festival Highlights, Week 2
2020 Portland Book Festival Highlights, Week 1
High Stakes: Rebellion & Resistance
Marissa Meyer & Tochi Onyebuchi (Rebroadcast)
Look Closer: Poetry & Myth Remaking
Colson Whitehead & Yaa Gyasi (Rebroadcast)
Kesha Ajose Fisher, Ashley Toliver, & Anis Mojgani
Self-Portrait: Memoir, Auto-Fiction, & History
Reckoning: Memoir of Trauma and Resilience
Tayari Jones (Rebroadcast)
Jonathan Lethem (Rebroadcast)
Azar Nafisi (Rebroadcast)
Long Distance
Long Distance with Raven Leilani
Robin Coste Lewis (Rebroadcast)
Orhan Pamuk (Rebroadcast)
Mitchell Jackson & Jesmyn Ward (Rebroadcast)
Salman Rushdie: Quichotte
Long Distance with Kelli Jo Ford
Nikky Finney (Rebroadcast)
Cornelius Eady
Long Distance with Emma Straub
Edwidge Danticat, 2010 (Rebroadcast)
Julia Alvarez (Rebroadcast)
2020 Oregon Book Awards
Long Distance with Jean Kyoung Frazier
Toni Morrison (Rebroadcast)
Long Distance with Megha Majumdar
Tommy Orange: Everybody Reads 2020
Between the Lines: Harper Lee & Boris Pasternak (Rebroadcast)
Long Distance with Kristen Arnett
Eavan Boland
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Rebroadcast)
Terrence McNally
Dangerous Love: Desire & Obsession (Rebroadcast)
Malcolm Gladwell: Talking to Strangers (Rebroadcast)
Amor Towles (Rebroadcast)
Ta-Nehisi Coates in conversation with Renée Watson (Rebroadcast)
George Packer (Rebroadcast)
Margaret Atwood in conversation with Omar El Akkad (Rebroadcast)
Lit Crawl 2019
Susan Orlean
Min Jin Lee
Scene of the Crime: Portland Thrillers
V. S. Naipaul
Dangerous Love: Desire & Obsession
Elaine May
Tommy Orange
Ties that Bind: Epic Family Sagas
Robert Bly
Toni Morrison (Rebroadcast)
Between the Lines: Harper Lee & Boris Pasternak
Malcolm Gladwell: Talking to Strangers
Amor Towles
Ta-Nehisi Coates in conversation with Renée Watson
George Packer
Margaret Atwood in conversation with Omar El Akkad
Lauren Groff & Rachel Kushner (Rebroadcast)
Trevino L. Brings Plenty, Laura Da’, Layli Long Soldier & Heid E. Erdrich (Rebroadcast)
Abbi Jacobson (Rebroadcast)
Lit Crawl 2018 (Rebroadcast)
Chef Edward Lee (Rebroadcast)
Tom Hanks (Rebroadcast)
Jacqueline Woodson (Rebroadcast)
Barry Lopez: Horizon
Verselandia! 2018 (Rebroadcast)
W.S. Merwin (Rebroadcast)
Jennifer Egan (Rebroadcast)
Toni Morrison (Rebroadcast)
Martín Espada (Rebroadcast)
John Updike (Rebroadcast)
DeRay Mckesson (Rebroadcast)
Jill Lepore (Rebroadcast)
David Wolman & Julian Smith
Poets on Broadway
Marissa Meyer & Tochi Onyebuchi
Amos Oz
Jacqueline Woodson
Al Gore (Rebroadcast)
Mitchell Jackson & Jesmyn Ward
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Verselandia! 2018
W.S. Merwin
Jennifer Egan
The Believer at Portland Book Festival 2018
Ron Chernow (Rebroadcast)
Lit Crawl 2018
Martín Espada
Tayari Jones
Mary Oliver
Barbara Kingsolver
John Updike (Rebroadcast)
Lauren Groff & Rachel Kushner
Trevino L. Brings Plenty, Laura Da’, Layli Long Soldier & Heid E. Erdrich
Abbi Jacobson
Philip Roth (Rebroadcast)
Chef Edward Lee
Tom Hanks
DeRay Mckesson
Jill Lepore
Dawn Lundy Martin, Morgan Parker, Danez Smith (Rebroadcast)
Omar El Akkad, Benjamin Percy, Lidia Yuknavitch (Rebroadcast)
Doree Shafrir and Ellen Ullman (Rebroadcast)
Lit Crawl Portland 2017 (Rebroadcast)
Maile Meloy & Claire Messud (Rebroadcast)
Kaveh Akbar, Melissa Febos, and Megan Stielstra (Rebroadcast)
Kaveh Akbar, Melissa Febos, and Megan Stielstra (Rebroadcast)
Jenny Han, Sandhya Menon, and Zan Romanoff (Rebroadcast)
Claudia Rankine (Rebroadcast)
Viet Thanh Nguyen (Rebroadcast)
Margo Jefferson
Mohsin Hamid (Rebroadcast)
Words That Burn
Siddhartha Mukherjee (Rebroadcast)
George Packer
George Saunders (Rebroadcast)
Reza Aslan (Rebroadcast)
Francis Ford Coppola in conversation with Melena Ryzik (Rebroadcast)
Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin
Claudia Rankine
Sloane Crosley & Chuck Klosterman
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Jenny Han, Sandhya Menon, and Zan Romanoff
Michael Ondaatje
Kaveh Akbar, Melissa Febos, and Megan Stielstra
Ruth Reichl
Verselandia! 2017 featuring Portland High School Students and Anis Mojgani
Mohsin Hamid
Lit Crawl Portland 2017
Maile Meloy & Claire Messud
Salman Rushdie
Doree Shafrir and Ellen Ullman
Philip Roth
Omar El Akkad, Benjamin Percy, Lidia Yuknavitch
Dawn Lundy Martin, Morgan Parker, Danez Smith
Lawrence Wright (Rebroadcast)
Ursula Le Guin & Margaret Atwood (Rebroadcast)
Ursula K. Le Guin (Rebroadcast)
Ann Patchett
Jeffery Eugenides & Danzy Senna
Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket)
Liars’ League
Margaret Atwood
George Saunders
Kazuo Ishiguro (Rebroadcast)
Reza Aslan
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Francis Ford Coppola in conversation with Melena Ryzik
Colson Whitehead & Yaa Gyasi
Jonathan Lethem, Helen Phillips & Dana Spiotta
Richard Russo, Karen Russell & Kevin Young
Alice Hoffman
P.C. Cast, Renée Ahdieh, and Kendare Blake
Carrie Brownstein and Jon Raymond
Announcing Season 4
David Levithan, Michelle Tea, & William Ritter (Rebroadcast)
Salman Rushdie (Rebroadcast)
Elizabeth Gilbert and Ann Patchett (Rebroadcast)
Mohsin Hamid (Rebroadcast)
Michael Lewis in conversation with Hanna Rosin (Rebroadcast)
Mary Oliver (Rebroadcast)
Carlos Fuentes (Rebroadcast)
Diane Ackerman (Rebroadcast)
Michael Pollan (Rebroadcast)
Marjane Satrapi (Rebroadcast)
Don DeLillo in conversation with Noah Hawley (Rebroadcast)
Liars’ League PDX (Rebroadcast)
Malcolm Gladwell (Rebroadcast)
Tracy K. Smith (Rebroadcast)
David Remnick
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Michael Ondaatje
Liars’ League PDX
Elmore Leonard
Francine Prose (Rebroadcast)
Salman Rushdie
Elizabeth Gilbert and Ann Patchett
Verselandia! 2016 featuring Portland High School Students & Anis Mojgani (Rebroadcast)
Colum McCann
Barbara Kopple (Rebroadcast)
Tracy K. Smith
Michael Lewis in conversation with Hanna Rosin
Mary Oliver (Rebroadcast)
Carlos Fuentes (Rebroadcast)
Diane Ackerman
Li-Young Lee (Rebroadcast)
Marjane Satrapi (Rebroadcast)
Sebastian Junger (Rebroadcast)
Bill Buford (Rebroadcast)
Donald Barthelme (Rebroadcast)
Don DeLillo in conversation with Noah Hawley
Liars’ League PDX (Rebroadcast)
Doris Lessing
Malcolm Gladwell
Annie Proulx
Verselandia! 2016 featuring Portland High School Students & Anis Mojgani
Julia Alvarez
Sandra Cisneros & Elena Passarello
Jesse Eisenberg interviewed by Jon Raymond
Mohsin Hamid
Al Gore
Andrei Codrescu
Brendan Gill
Rita Dove
Phil Knight
Cristina Henriquez
Yann Martel
Robin Coste Lewis
Elmore Leonard (Rebroadcast)
Adam Gopnik
Orhan Pamuk
Mark Bittman
Bill Buford
Sharon Olds
Jonathan Lethem
Cristina Henriquez, performed by The Milagro Theatre
Tom Brokaw
Joan Didion
Lydia Davis
Stephen Greenblatt
Karen Armstrong
Carmiel Banasky, Sloane Crosley, Katherine Taylor, Vendela Vida
David Levithan, Michelle Tea, & William Ritter
Diana Nyad & Cheryl Strayed
Stacy Schiff & Karen Karbo
Ruth Reichl (Rebroadcast)
Jon Krakauer & Barry Lopez
Robert Pinsky
Naomi Shihab Nye
Mary Gordon & Frank McCourt
Azar Nafisi
Amos Oz (Rebroadcast)
Michael Pollan
Ursula K. Le Guin & Margaret Atwood
Maxine Hong Kingston
Terry McMillan & John Edgar Wideman
Robert Hass & Czeslaw Milosz
Lawrence Wright
Donald Barthelme
Oliver Sacks
Julie Mancini
Mark Doty
Mitchell S. Jackson
Kazuo Ishiguro
Joyce Carol Oates
Carlos Fuentes
Isabel Allende
Joan Didion & John Dunne
Ruth Ozeki
Gore Vidal
Terrance Hayes
Jane Hirshfield
Li-Young Lee
Barry Lopez
Stephen Sondheim & Frank Rich
Robert Stone
Bill Bryson
Ursula K. Le Guin
Barbara Kopple
Sebastian Junger
Edwidge Danticat, 2010
Toni Morrison
Edward P. Jones
Chinua Achebe
Colson Whitehead
Nikky Finney
Paul Theroux
Christopher Hitchens
Frank McCourt
Elizabeth Strout
A.L. Kennedy
James McBride
Saul Bellow
Abraham Verghese
Margaret Atwood
Natasha Trethewey
Chimamanda Adichie
Wallace Stegner
Marjane Satrapi
Ron Chernow
Calvin Trillin
Francine Prose