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If you weren’t one of the 50 or so people who crammed into a packed Nature of Words office last night for the Source Weekly Fiction Reading, you missed some incredible passages from Benjamin Percy and his low, growly voice.

Here’s a some video of Percy answering an audience question about how Bend figured into the narrative of his new novel, The Wilding, which is set entirely here in Central Oregon.

This article appears in Oct 7-13, 2010.

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See/Hear Benjamin Percy Talk About Bend

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
October 12, 2010

<h1>See/Hear Benjamin Percy Talk About Bend</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />October 12, 2010</p> <p>If you weren't one of the 50 or so people who crammed into a packed Nature of Words office last night for the <em>Source Weekly </em>Fiction Reading, you missed some incredible passages from <a href="http://www.benjaminpercy.com/" target="_blank">Benjamin Percy</a> and his low, growly voice.</p> <p>Here's a some video of Percy answering an audience question about how Bend figured into the narrative of his new novel, <a href="http://www.benjaminpercy.com/the wilding.htm" target="_blank"><em>The Wilding</em></a>, which is set entirely here in Central Oregon.</p> <p><object><em>You need to use a flashplayer enabled browser in order to view this video</em></object><em><br /></em></p> <p> </p> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"> <div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> http://www.youtube.com/v/e3q5tyIlWoo </div> </figure> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/see-hear-benjamin-percy-talk-about-bend-2136328/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=17379&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/see-hear-benjamin-percy-talk-about-bend-2136328/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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