And with that, the 2024-2025 season of The Archive Project has come to an end. As we enter our summer of rebroadcasts, we invite you to listen to some of this season’s biggest hits.
The Archive Project features the most sought-after recordings from our Portland Arts & Lectures series, Portland Book Festival, and bookstore events. You can stream any of these episodes on our website or wherever you get your podcasts.
Ta-Nehisi Coates in conversation with Omar El Akkad
In this episode, we feature Ta-Nehisi Coates in conversation with Omar El Akkad from the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in October 2024.
Annie Dillard
In this talk, Dillard’s characteristic sense of irony and humor elicits huge laughs from the audience and her generous spirit invites quiet attention when she tells a story. She reads two excerpts — first from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and then from a book of essays called Teaching a Stone to Talk. Whether she is describing muskrats in Virginia or witnessing an eclipse in the Yakima Valley, she draws profound insights into the nature of existence and what the natural world has to tell us about ourselves.
Paul Auster in conversation with Siri Hustvedt
This episode features a conversation between one of the ultimate literary power couples: Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt.
Richard Powers
This episode features a conversation from the 2024 Portland Book Festival. The incomparable Richard Powers came to Portland to discuss his new novel, Playground, with Literary Arts Executive Director Andrew Proctor.
Everybody Reads 2024: Gabrielle Zevin
Every year, the Multnomah County Library chooses one book they hope the whole city will read. Between January and April, the Library, and their partner organizations, host events based around the themes of the book, and they distribute thousands of free copies—thanks to the Library Foundation—to readers of all ages from across the county. Here at Literary Arts, our role is to bring the author to town for a talk in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. The 2024 Everybody Reads book was the novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.
All the episodes from this season will be rebroadcast on OPB all summer long. We will be back with all new episodes this fall.
