Literary Arts is pleased to announce the lineup of the 41st season of Portland Arts & Lectures. We look forward to joining you in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall for another five evenings of incredible authors and artists sharing how they make their work and their insights into our world.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Elizabeth Gilbert is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic, and the novels City of Girls and The Signature of All Things. A three-time National Magazine finalist, her work spans fiction, memoir, and journalism. Her 2025 memoir All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation—about love, addiction, and healing—will be published September 9, 2025. Elizabeth Gilbert lives in Florida where she continues to write and inspire audiences worldwide.
PERCIVAL EVERETT
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Percival Everett is a Distinguished Professor of English at USC. His most recent novel, James, was awarded the 2024 National Book Award and the 2025 Pulitzer Prize. His previous novels, Erasure, Dr. No, and The Trees, have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. In 2022 he received Yale’s Windham Campbell Prize in recognition of lifetime achievement. Everett resides in Los Angeles with his wife, author Danzy Senna, and their children.
COLM TÓIBÍN
THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2026
Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island, an Oprah’s Book Club Pick; The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; and Nora Webster; as well as two story collections, several books of criticism, and plays. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and was named the 2022–2024 Laureate for Irish Fiction by the Arts Council of Ireland. He was shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize. He was also awarded the Bodley Medal, the Würth Prize for European Literature, and the Prix Femina spécial for his body of work.
IMANI PERRY
Thursday, February 12, 2026
Imani Perry is the National Book Award–winning author of South to America, as well as eight other books of nonfiction. Her latest release, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, was dubbed one of the most anticipated books of 2025 by Time, USA Today, LitHub, and many more. She is the Henry A. Morss Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and is a 2023 MacArthur Fellow. Perry lives between Philadelphia and Cambridge with her two sons.
PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE
Thursday, April 23, 2026
Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Rogues, Empire of Pain, and Say Nothing, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, was selected as one of the ten best books of 2019 by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal, and was named one of the top ten nonfiction books of the decade by Entertainment Weekly. His work has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. He is also the creator and host of the eight-part podcast Wind of Change.
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