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Discover Literary Arts '25-26, from Multcolib

The Portland Arts and Lectures series features the worlds best writers. Explore this season's featured authors with this list. Literary Arts is a nonprofit center with a decades long history of serving Oregon’s readers and writers, through lectures, the Oregon Book Awards and Writers in the Schools, among many other projects. Literary Arts is a My Discovery Pass partner.

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  • Oct. 16, 2025 -- Elizabeth Gilbert is the bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic, and the novels City of Girls and The Signature of All Things. Her memoir All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation—about love, addiction, and…
    Book, 2019New York : Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019. — FICTION GILBERT 2019
  • Big Magic

    Creative Living Beyond Fear

    Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969-
    Book, 2015New York : Riverhead Books, 2015. — 153.35 G4646b 2015
  • Nov. 12, 2025 -- Percival Everett is a Distinguished Professor of English at USC. His most recent novel, James, was awarded the 2024 National Book Award and the 2025 Pulitzer Prize.
    Book, 2024New York : Doubleday, [2024] — FICTION EVERETT 2024
  • Book, 2021Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2021] — FICTION EVERETT 2021
  • Jan. 15, 2026 -- Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island, The Magician, The Master and Brooklyn.
    Book, 2024New York : Scribner, 2024. — FICTION TOIBIN 2024
  • Black in Blues

    How a Color Tells the Story of My People

    Perry, Imani, 1972-
    Feb. 12, 2026 -- Imani Perry is the National Book Award–winning author of South to America, as well as eight other books of nonfiction. Her latest release, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, was dubbed one of the most…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPulishers, [2025] — 305.89607 P4634b 2025
  • South to America

    a Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

    Perry, Imani, 1972-
    Book, 2022New York, NY : ECCO, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — 917.504 P4634s 2022
  • Say Nothing

    a True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

    Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976-
    April 23, 2026 -- Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the bestsellers Rogues, Empire of Pain, and Say Nothing, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.
    Book, 2019New York : Doubleday, [2019] — 364.1523 K261s 2019
  • Rogues

    True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

    Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976-
    Large Print, 2022New York : Random House Large Print, [2022] — LGE-TYPE 364.163 K261r 2022
  • Literary Arts is a community-based nonprofit with a mission to engage readers, support writers, and inspire the next generation with great literature.
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