On today's show, we welcome Nancy Townsley, author of the new novel Sunshine
Girl from Heliotrope Books. Nancy’s work has appeared in Newsweek,
Hippocampus, The Big Smoke, Nailed magazine, the Timberline Review, Elephant
Journal, and several anthologies. Sunshine Girl is...
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Portland Youth Philharmonic, America’s longest running youth orchestra,
closes its 101st season this Sunday, May 4th at Portland’s Arlene Schnitzer
Concert Hall. The program, titled “The Search for Beauty”, includes
Robert Schumann’s Manfred Overture, Valerie Coleman’s T...
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On today's show, we welcome Elaine Pagels, author of the new book Miracles
and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus from Doubleday. Elaine is the
Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion at Princeton
University. Her previous books include Why Religion? ...
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On today's episode, we welcome Laura Stanfill, author of the new book
Imagine A Door: A Writer’s Guide to Unlocking Your Story, Choosing A
Publishing Path, and Honoring the Creative Journey, from Portland’s Forest
Avenue Press. Laura’s debut novel Singing Lessons for the...
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The Portland Book Festival is not only our city’s biggest literary event,
and one of the most popular on the entire West Coast, but a great way for
local writers to meet and make connections. Our In Depth guests tonight, Dao
Strom and Alicia Jo Rabins, are a case in poin...
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On today's episode, we welcome Elizabeth Heider, author of the mystery novel
May the Wolf Die from Penguin Books. Elizabeth is a PhD physicist whose most
recent jobs include work for Microsoft’s AI4Science Research Program and
the European Space Agency’s Human Spacefligh...
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On today’s show, we celebrate the life of Susan DeFreitas, who passed away
two weeks ago at her home in Santa Fe, at the way-too-young age of 47. Susan
was a much-loved member of the Portland writing community. All of us here,
who felt blessed to know her, are heartbroke...
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For a centenarian plus one, Portland Youth Philharmonic, America’s longest
running youth orchestra, still has a spring in its step. PYP continues its
historic 101st season with a concert titled Spring Sunrise, taking place this
Saturday, March 1st at Portland’s Arlene Sc...
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On today's episode, we welcome Karen Russell, author of the new novel The
Antidote from Knopf. The Antidote is Karen’s sixth book of fiction,
following the story collections Orange World, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls
Raised by Wolves, and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, the no...
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On today's episode, we welcome Jeremy Braddock, author of the new book
Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy
Albums (University of California Press). Jeremy is a literary scholar and
cultural historian specializing in the history of m...
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