This year, local nonprofit Literary Arts (who acquired Portland’s big literature festival Wordstock in 2014) renamed Wordstock with the more homogenous title of Portland Book Festival. Though this made the festival impossible to search for online, the fest itself appears to be retaining the originality, talent draw, and excellent curation of literary voices that made it such a crowded (!) but rewarding event in years past. Looking at the lineup of speakers and panels on deck, the Mercury’s Extremely Literate Strike Force™ has recommendations of authors you cannot miss.