/tags/literature literature en-US Copyright Sat, 14 Sep 2024 01:10:29 GMT /music-arts-culture/2024-09-13/for-this-poet-laureate-the-land-is-her-muse Oregon's new Poet Laureate, Ellen Waterston, recently spoke to JPR's Vanessa Finney about the state's literary landscape. Sat, 14 Sep 2024 01:10:29 GMT /music-arts-culture/2024-09-13/for-this-poet-laureate-the-land-is-her-muse Vanessa Finney /weather/2022-10-25/press-pass-dont-let-the-apocalypse-get-you-down Thu, 01 Sep 2022 15:04:13 GMT /weather/2022-10-25/press-pass-dont-let-the-apocalypse-get-you-down Erik Neumann /2021-12-23/writer-joan-didion-whose-electric-anxiety-inspired-a-generation-has-died-at-87 When Didion started writing in the 1960s, she put a certain kind of voice on the page — neurotic, female — that hadn't been there before. Fri, 24 Dec 2021 00:50:36 GMT /2021-12-23/writer-joan-didion-whose-electric-anxiety-inspired-a-generation-has-died-at-87 Susan Stamberg /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2019-12-27/exchange-exemplar-jonathan-lethem 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… Fri, 27 Dec 2019 18:01:00 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2019-12-27/exchange-exemplar-jonathan-lethem The ÀÏ·ò×Ó´«Ã½ Exchange Team /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2019-09-06/the-impending-death-of-books-or-not 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… Fri, 06 Sep 2019 16:34:03 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2019-09-06/the-impending-death-of-books-or-not The ÀÏ·ò×Ó´«Ã½ Exchange Team /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2018-12-06/local-authors-gather-with-public-in-ashland 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… Thu, 06 Dec 2018 18:33:26 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2018-12-06/local-authors-gather-with-public-in-ashland Geoffrey Riley /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2018-10-22/ernest-hemingway-in-short-glimpses 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… Mon, 22 Oct 2018 16:29:19 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2018-10-22/ernest-hemingway-in-short-glimpses Geoffrey Riley /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2018-08-16/exchange-exemplar-the-stories-that-tell-us-who-we-are 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.… Thu, 16 Aug 2018 17:22:47 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2018-08-16/exchange-exemplar-the-stories-that-tell-us-who-we-are Geoffrey Riley /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2018-03-26/mystery-writer-j-a-jance-cranks-out-the-books 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… Tue, 27 Mar 2018 00:03:22 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2018-03-26/mystery-writer-j-a-jance-cranks-out-the-books Geoffrey Riley, April Ehrlich /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2018-01-19/how-writing-makes-this-a-better-planet 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… Fri, 19 Jan 2018 17:27:37 GMT /show/the-jefferson-exchange/2018-01-19/how-writing-makes-this-a-better-planet Geoffrey Riley, April Ehrlich