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Emma Straub

Emma Straub is the New York Times best-selling author of Modern Lovers, The Vacationers, Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures, and the short story collection Other People We Married.  Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Elle, and Conde Nast Traveler, and she is a contributing writer for Rookie. Emma’s work has been published in fifteen countries.

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Live Wire with Luke Burbank — Wordstock Edition

Saturday, November 5 at 8:00 p.m. / doors at 7:00 p.m.

Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Portland, Oregon 97202
Tickets $20 and $25 at Live Wire!

Join us for this very special taping of Live Wire, the fastest growing entertainment show on public radio. In partnership with Literary Arts’ Wordstock festival, we’re thrilled to bring to the stage best-selling novelists Jonathan Lethem and Emma Straub, essayist Lindy West, and music from genre-defying folk/country/rock indie stalwarts, Blitzen Trapper.

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