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The 2021-2022 range for the Portland Arts & Lectures Author Series from Literary Arts has been announced, and all appearances are scheduled as in-person events. Here is the list:
October 14: Daniel James Brown, best known for “The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics,” one of those “you can’t make it up” stories that Brown makes as convincing as all the others. – story told, about an unlikely rowing team at the University of Washington.
January 27: Cathy Park Hong, whose “Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning†has become a must-read in the current #StopAAPIHate movement.
February 7: Brit Bennett, who caused a stir with her standout debut novel, “The Mothers,” a look back at a haunting decision from a lifetime ago, and whose second novel, “The Vanishing Half,” is about twin sisters who choose Divergent Racial Paths, was picked up for a limited TV series by HBO.
April 21th: Richard Powers, 2019 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction for “The Overstory,” a tree-centric novel that has garnered all manner of hymns, with one reviewer calling it “America’s great ecological novel.”
May 12: Edwidge Danticat, whose first novel, “Breath, Eyes, Memory”, a selection from Oprah’s Book Club, is an interrogation on immigration and the family.
Subscriptions to the series are now available at literary-arts.org; they start at $ 90. Literary Arts plans to resume holding the series at its traditional venue, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in downtown Portland, but will also offer virtual admission. Talks start at 7:30 p.m.
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