Latest Past Events

Angela Flournoy: The Wilderness

Portland'5: Newmark Theatre 1111 SW Broadway, Portland

Join us for a special event with Angela Flournoy, National Book Award finalist, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize finalist, and the author of an era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship, as they move through the dizzying and sometimes precarious period between young adulthood and midlife. Flournoy will be interviewed by Renée Watson.

Jill Lepore: We The People

Portland'5: Newmark Theatre 1111 SW Broadway, Portland

Join us for a special event with Jill Lepore, best-selling author and historian, discussing her stunning new history of the U.S. Constitution for a troubling new era. Lepore will be in conversation with OPB's Geoff Norcross.

Emma Donoghue: The Paris Express

Portland'5: Newmark Theatre 1111 SW Broadway, Portland

Join us for a special event with Emma Donoghue about her sweeping historical novel about an infamous 1895 disaster at the Paris Montparnasse train station, in conversation with OPB's Crystal Ligori.