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writingranch.comOregon's new Poet Laureate, Ellen Waterston, recently spoke to JPR's Vanessa Finney about the state's literary landscape. -
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Writer Joan Didion, Sacramento native whose 'electric anxiety' inspired a generation, has died at 87When Didion started writing in the 1960s, she put a certain kind of voice on the page 鈥� neurotic, female 鈥� that hadn't been there before. -
No word on whether Jonathan Lethem was among the first people in line for the latest Star Wars movie. But he was a big fan of the first one (first one鈥� -
Don't you miss the days when you had time to curl up with a good book, and read it from cover to cover? Wait, did you ever really have such a time? Leah鈥� -
The charms of our region mean people who might otherwise live in bigger cities settle in the hills and valleys around us. Including a number of published鈥� -
Ernest Hemingway is an American icon. He left behind many photographs. He left behind many other artifacts.Michael Katakis is an author. He's collected鈥� -
Any society heading for more repression tends to put a lid on its fiction writers. Azar Nafisi, who lived under the regime in Iran, has seen it happen.鈥� -
Does the name J.P. Beaumont mean anything to you? How about Ali Reynolds? Joanna Brady? If none of those names mean anything, you probably don't read鈥� -
Being able to communicate with each other by speaking made a big difference in our development as a species. But when we turned our pictures into words鈥� -
We wonder sometimes when Robert Arellano sleeps. He's got talents as an author, teacher, and musician (among other skills), and has just cranked out his鈥� -
Any public building erected in recent years includes ramps and other devices to get people in wheelchairs inside with minimal effort. So we've adjusted鈥� -
Everything from classical poetry to comic books will be discussed and celebrated at the Ashland Literary Arts Festival. It takes over the Hannon Library鈥�
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Can you pull yourself away from the news long enough to get immersed in a good book? The long, warm days lend themselves to reading, and we'll spend the鈥�
