Delve Program Guide: Christopher Lord

Christopher Lord

Delve Program Guide

Christopher Lord is the author of the Dickens Junction mystery series, has led several Delve seminars on Dickens and detective fiction, and is a past recipient of an Oregon Literary Fellowship.

PAST SEMINARS

2016/17

Thomas Hardy—Early and Late Novels: Under the Greenwood Tree and Tess of the D’Urbervilles

2015

Dickens Before and After the Holidays: A Christmas Carol & Great Expectations

Charles Dickens: David Copperfield

2014

Whodunit: Detective Fiction in the ‘Golden Age’

2013

Charles Dickens: Our Mutual Friend
Guides: Christopher Lord & Judith Stone

Upcoming Events

View Entire Calendar →

Francis Ford Coppola in conversation with Melena Ryzik of The New York Times

October 2, 2017

Tickets start at $15, available at Portland5.com. Francis Ford Coppola is an…

Buy Tickets

OBA tour: Berlin Diary in Eugene

October 2, 2017

Literary Arts is pleased to partner with Hand2Mouth Theater to present free…

The Archive Project on OPB Radio

October 4, 2017

The Archive Project is an audio retrospective of some of the most…

Bookmark: A Benefit for Literary Arts

October 25, 2017

Click here to visit the event landing page. Bookmark: A Benefit for…

2017 Wordstock: Portland’s Book Festival

November 11, 2017

Join Literary Arts for Wordstock: Portland’s Book Festival, our annual celebration of literature.…

Buy Tickets

Joe Biden: American Promise Tour

November 30, 2017

Literary Arts will host Joe Biden on Thursday, November 30 in celebration…

Buy Tickets

Latest Blog Posts

Delve Guide Spotlight: Melissa Joan Walker

September 18, 2017

Melissa Joan Walker is a local writer whose work has appeared in outlets such as the Denver Quarterly, Sentence, Banshee, theNewerYork, After Hours; Orion Headless, Parable Press and more. She holds an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute…

Go to Post

Write Poetic Personal Essays with Claudia Savage

September 18, 2017

Claudia Savage is teaching “Poetic Personal Essays” this fall at Literary Arts, beginning October 12. Click here for full details and to register. Savage is half of the improvising sound-poetry performance duo Thick in the Throat, Honey and the author of Bruising Continents (Spuyten…

Go to Post

Announcing the 2017 Author Lineup for Wordstock: Portland’s Book Festival

September 11, 2017

Literary Arts has been hard at work preparing for Wordstock: Portland’s Book Festival, presented by Bank of America. This event builds community around books, from children’s story times and writing workshops to author events and the book fair. Below are…

Go to Post

Featured Lecture from the Archives

David Levithan, Michelle Tea, & William Ritter (Rebroadcast)

September 20, 2017

In “The Other Side of the Story: Fantastic Sequels (YA),” David Levithan, Michelle Tea, and William Ritter discuss the follow-up stories to their best-selling books.

Go to Lecture