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Paul Auster
in Conversation with Siri HustvedtJanuary 24, 2006
First Congregational Church, 7:30 p.m.
In a rare West Coast appearance, Paul Auster, the prolific New York novelist, essayist, poet and screenwriter, comes to Portland to engage in a lively conversation about the contemporary novel with fellow novelist, Siri Hustvedt. Among Auster’s critically acclaimed novels are The New York Trilogy (1986), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002) and Oracle Night (2003). Auster’s latest novel, The Brooklyn Follies (2006), continues to mine the author’s familiar terrains of shifting identity, surreal serendipity and the search for redemption.
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 July 16, 2009
Emcee – Colson Whitehead
Listen to a Q&A with Colson Whitehead when he was here in 2008.
Colson Whitehead is the author, most recently, of Sag Harbor, his first “autobiographical” novel. Whitehead is also the author of three previous novels: The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, which was a finalist for the National Book Critic Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and Apex Hides the Hurt, as well as a collection of essays, The Colossus of New York.
 July 17, 2009
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