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  • Friday Night Book Market

    Portland Art Museum: Main Building 1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR

    Enjoy a preview of the book market and discussions with publishers!

  • PDX Jazz at Friday Night Book Market

    Portland Art Museum: Main Building 1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR

    Enjoy live music from PDX Jazz during the Friday Night Book Market!

  • Featured

    Viet Thanh Nguyen: A Man of Two Faces

    Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway, Portland, OR

    This is a special event at Portland Book Festival which requires an add-on ticket to attend. Viet Thanh Nguyen will be joined in conversation with Tommy Orange.

  • Featured

    Michael Lewis: Going Infinite

    Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway, Portland, OR

    This is a special event at Portland Book Festival which requires an add-on ticket to attend. From the #1 best-selling author, the story of FTX’s spectacular collapse and the enigmatic founder at its center. Interviewed by Andrew Proctor.

  • Readers Night: Celebrating Portland Book Festival

    Portland Art Museum: Mark Building 1119 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR, United States

    Support the Portland Book Festival by joining us for an exclusive peek of the exhibitor fair. Enjoy complimentary drinks and hors d’oeuvres and treat your shelf with early access to the many book sellers and vendors!

  • Show Up and Vote: Ani DiFranco

    Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway, Portland, OR

    From the Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter, political activist, and feminist icon comes a story of connectedness and collective responsibility, as told through the eyes of a young child going to vote for the first time.

  • Playground: Richard Powers

    Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway, Portland, OR

    Set in the world’s largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.

  • Readers Night

    Portland Art Museum: Mark Building 1119 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR, United States

    Friday, November 7, 6:00–8:00 p.m.
    Portland Book Festival‘s 11th year kicks off on with an evening of special giveaways, craft beverage samples, flash tattoos, and more exclusive offers at Readers Night.

  • Rebecca Yarros: Onyx Storm (SOLD OUT)

    Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway, Portland, OR

    Join us for a very special event with Rebecca Yarros, the #1 New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of over twenty novels including Fourth Wing and In the Likely Event. Yarros will be in conversation with Laini Taylor.

  • Susan Orlean: Joyride

    Portland'5: Newmark Theatre 1111 SW Broadway, Portland, OR

    Join us for a special event with Susan Orlean, discussing her masterful memoir of finding her creative calling and purpose that invites us to approach life with wonder, curiosity, and an irrepressible sense of delight. Orlean will be interviewed by Andrew Proctor, executive director of Literary Arts.

  • Nicholas Boggs: Baldwin: A Love Story

    Portland'5: Newmark Theatre 1111 SW Broadway, Portland, OR

    Join us for a special event with Nicolas Boggs, a writer and independent scholar, and author of the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, revealing how profoundly his personal relationships shaped his life and work. In conversation with Mitchell S. Jackson.

  • Stacey Abrams: Coded Justice

    Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway, Portland, OR

    Join us for a very special event with Stacey Abrams, New York Times bestselling author, entrepreneur and political leader, author of a twisty and prescient new thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling Avery Keene series, that follows Avery down a dark rabbit hole into the breathtaking—and dangerous—use of AI in the medical industry. Abrams will be in conversation with OPB's Dave Miller.

  • Emma Donoghue: The Paris Express

    Portland'5: Newmark Theatre 1111 SW Broadway, Portland, OR

    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.

  • Jill Lepore: We The People

    Portland'5: Newmark Theatre 1111 SW Broadway, Portland, OR

    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.

  • Angela Flournoy: The Wilderness

    Portland'5: Newmark Theatre 1111 SW Broadway, Portland, OR

    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.