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Wordstock is Huge. Here Are Two Curated Schedules to Our Favorite Authors, Panels and Pop-Ups This Saturday

You can do Wordstock local—or you can chase the big names

Wordstock is Huge. Here Are Two Curated Schedules to Our Favorite Authors, Panels and Pop-Ups This Saturday

You can do Wordstock local—or you can chase the big names

Jon Raymond's "Freebird" Centers on the Health of Both the Environment and the Modern Family, And Likes a Good Dick Joke

Like a lot of native Portlanders, author Jon Raymond knows better than to find his city quaint. “I know about all your secret lynchings, even if you don’t know about them yourselves,” Anne says when she visits Portland in Raymond’s new novel, Freebird (Graywolf Press, 336 pages, $26). “The scrupulous curation of the room, of the whole town, felt like a form of ethnic cleansing.”

Writer Jon Raymond's 20-Year Portrait of the Portland Art Scene

Jon Raymond is an art critic the same way a novelist is a critic of humans—a keen and often cold-eyed observer who manages to use his subjects for purposes other than their own. Raymond is probably best known to Portlanders for his fiction (The Half-Life, Livability) or the works he’s written for the screen (Todd … Continue reading Writer Jon Raymond’s 20-Year Portrait of the Portland Art Scene

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