Dec 7, 2025
2025 Portland Book Festival
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was born in 1929 in Berkeley, California. She settled in Portland, Oregon with her family. Le Guin’s fictions range from young-adult adventures to wry philosophical fables. They combine compelling stories, rigorous narrative logic and a lean but lyrical style to draw readers into what she called the “inner lands” of the imagination. Literary Arts is honored to have known her, and thank her for her transformative contributions to international literature.
2025 Portland Book Festival
Tommy Orange: Everybody Reads 2020 (Rebroadcast)
Salman Rushdie (Rebroadcast)
Angela Flournoy in Conversation
Timothy Snyder in Conversation
M. Gessen (Rebroadcast)
Ta-Nehisi Coates in conversation with Omar El Akkad (Rebroadcast)
Emily Wilson (Rebroadcast)
Gabrielle Zevin: Everybody Reads 2024 (Rebroadcast)
Be a Revolution: Ijeoma Oluo & Hanif Fazal (Rebroadcast)
Javier Zamora (Rebroadcast)
Timothy Egan (Rebroadcast)