Today's guest is Portland-based author, teacher, and mom, Karen Russell. I
first talked with Karen last June, when her most recent book Orange World and
Other Stories, came out in hardcover and digital editions. That was for
KBOO’s Between the Covers program. And you can...
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Host Ken Jones talks with Cai Emmons, author of the new story collection
Vanishing, from Leapfrog Press.
Cai’s a fiction writer, playwright, and screenwriter, whose previous novels
include Weather Woman, The Stylist, and His Mother’s Son, which won an
Oregon Book award ...
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On today's show, we welcome Ty Curtis, Oregon born-and-bred
singer/songwriter/guitarist, to the neighborhood, coming to us all the way
from his home in Austin, Texas. This is Ty's fourth guest appearance on the
show, usually to preview the annual Portland Waterfront Blue...
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Host Ken Jones talks with Adam Levin, author of the new novel Bubblegum,
from Doubleday.
Adam’s work includes the novel The Instructions and the story collection
Hot Pink. He's been a New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award
winner, a recipient of a National En...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected us all – our own physical and mental
health, our finances, our work and social life, and the well-being of our
friends and family. As of this week, Oregon reported over 3000 confirmed and
presumed cases of the virus, raising the death t...
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Host Ken Jones talks with Hannah Lillith Assadi and Achy Obejas,
contributors to the story anthology Take Us To A Better Place, published by
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. You can download a free copy of the
ebook at https://www.rwjf.org/fiction.
Hannah Lillith Ass...
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It’s a rare occurrence when there’s more than one candidate running for a
Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge position. For the election coming up on
May 19th, there are five candidates, all vying to fill Circuit Court Judge,
4th District, Position 12.
We’re fortunate ...
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