Literary Arts

Literary Arts is proud to present pioneer news anchor and reporter Connie Chung in conversation about her forthcoming memoir Connie (interviewer TBA). Connie Chung was the first woman to co-anchor the CBS Evening News, the flagship news broadcast on CBS, and was only the second woman to anchor any network...

Amy Tan is the author of the bestselling novel The Joy Luck Club, which spent 40 weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list after its release. When the novel got adapted into a film in 1993, Tan served as co-producer and co-screenwriter with Ron Bass. Tan wrote five additional...

Gladwell’s seminal work, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference, was published in the year 2000 and launched the global “big idea” publishing phenomenon—a hugely popular genre blending social science, history, pop culture, and business to revolutionize the way we view ourselves and the world. His books...

Literary Arts is honored to present #1 New York Times bestselling author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, in conversation about his first book of non-fiction in nearly a decade— The Message, in which he journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we...

This daylong event features author discussions, pop-up readings, writing workshops for youth and adults, kids’ story time, an extensive book fair, local food trucks, and more!

Abraham Verghese is a physician, writer, tenured professor, and senior associate chair for the theory and practice of medicine at Stanford University. Verghese’s first book, My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story, was inspired by his early years practicing medicine as an orderly, taking care of terminal AIDs patients. The book...

Timothy Egan is an American journalist and author of ten books. The most recent, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them, was an immediate New York Times bestseller. Egan worked for The New York Times for 18...

Masha Gessen is a Russian American author, activist, translator, and journalist. They’ve written 11 books, including Surviving Autocracy, The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaiming Russia (winner of the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction). They’ve written for many US publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The...

In partnership with Multnomah County Library and the Library Foundation, Literary Arts is proud to host an evening with Javier Zamora as the culminating event of the Library’s Everybody Reads program. This year’s selection is Zamora’s memoir, Solito. Everybody Reads is an annual community-wide project that promotes shared reading and...

Emily Wilson is a classicist, translator, professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and the author of the bestselling translations of Homer’s The Odyssey and The Iliad (winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Best Literary Fiction and Classics). In addition to Wilson’s translated works, her other books...