- Literary Arts
Finally, Literary Arts has announced (most of) the lineup for this year’s November 7 Wordstock fest, and what a delightful lineup it is: From Portland’s beloved local writers (writing group buds Chuck Palahniuk, Cheryl Strayed, and Lidia Yuknavitch, for three) to on-the-cusp local talent (Sara Jaffe) to undisputed rockstars of the literary world (Mary Gaitskill, John Irving) to those currently redefining literary forms as we know them (Maggie Nelson), this is a nicely varied bunch. Here’s a partial list of the authors Literary Arts announced last week (more here) with links to Mercury reviews where we’ve got ’em:
๏ฟผ2015 Fiction writers:
Kathleen Alcott (Infinite Home)
Jami Attenberg (Saint Mazie)
Carmiel Banasky (The Suicide of Claire Bishop)
Arthur Bradford (Turtleface and Beyond: Stories)
Sloane Crosley (The Clasp)
Patrick DeWitt (Undermajordomo Minor)
Rebecca Dinerstein (The Sunlit Night)
Brian Doyle (Martin Marten)
Polly Dugan (The Sweetheart Deal)
Mary Gaitskill (The Mare)
David Gates (A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me: Stories and a Novella)
Garth Risk Hallberg (City on Fire)
John Irving (Avenue of Mysteries)
Sara Jaffe (Dryland)
Valeria Luiselli (The Story of My Teeth)
Chinelo Okparanta (Under the Udala Trees)
Chuck Palahniuk (Make Something Up)
Benjamin Percy (The Dead Lands)
Portland Public School Students (Off Center: WITS Student Anthology 2014โ2015)
Tom Spanbauer (I Loved You More)
Glenn Taylor (A Hanging at Cinder Bottom)
Katherine Taylor (Valley Fever)
Adrian Tomine (Killing and Dying)
Vendela Vida (The Diverโs Clothes Lie Empty)
Willy Vlautin (The Free)
Claire Vaye Watkins (Gold, Fame, Citrus)
Cat Winters (The Uninvited)
Cecily Wong (Diamond Head)
Lidia Yuknavitch (The Small Backs of Children)
EVEN MORE WRITERS, leading with the poets, after the jump.
2015 Poets:
Mary Jo Bang (The Last Two Seconds)
Katie Ford (Blood Lyrics)
Robin Coste Lewis (Voyage of the Sable Venus)
Rowan Ricardo Phillips (Heaven)
Alicia Jo Rabins (Divinity School)
Diane Seuss (Fourยญlegged Girl)
Rebecca Wolff (One Morning)
2015 Nonfiction (Essays, Memoir, History, and Politics) writers:
Ari Berman (Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America)
Sandra Cisneros (A House of My Own: Stories From My Life)
Tracy Daugherty (The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion)
Zach Dundas (The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes)
Jesse Eisenberg (Bream Gives Me Hiccups: And Other Stories)
Heidi Julavits (The Folded Clock)
Jon Krakauer (Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town)
Ursula K. Le Guin (Steering the Craft)
Marie Mutsuki Mockett (Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye)
Michael McGregor (Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax)
Maggie Nelson (The Argonauts)
Diana Nyad (Find a Way)
Wendell Pierce (The Wind in the Reeds)
Lauren Redniss (Thunder and Lightning)
Luc Sante (The Other Paris)
Stacy Schiff (The Witches: Salem, 1692)
David Banis and Hunter Shobe (Portlandness: A Cultural Atlas)
Tracy K. Smith (Ordinary Light)
Cheryl Strayed (Brave Enough)
Simon Winchester (Pacific)
2015 Cookbook and Food writers:
Elias Cairo (Olympia Provisions: Cured Meats and Tales from an American Charcuterie)
Jenn Louis (Pasta by Hand: A Collection of Italy’s Regional HandยญShaped Pasta)
Adam and Jackie Sappington (Heartlandia: Heritage Recipes from Portlandโs The Country Cat Mark)
Schatzker (The Dorito Effect)
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