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Eighth Season of Author! Author! Literary Series Features Scholastic Masterminds

Michael Pollan, Susan Orlean and Barry Lopez headed to Bend
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During the first three months of 2020, the Deschutes Public Library Foundation’s Author! Author! literary series will return, featuring three prolific and renowned authors presenting at the Bend High School Auditorium. The foundation works to find high-level writers that will engage the Central Oregon community while encouraging literary-centric, thought-provoking conversation.  Barry Lopez, Susan Orlean and […]

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Author! Author! Lineup Announced

Local literary series back for a seventh season
Avatar photo Keely Damara

Deschutes Public Library Foundation’s popular Author! Author! literary series is back for its seventh year, beginning Oct. 5. The foundation announced its 2018-2019 lineup of authors Wednesday morning, which includes Maria Semple, Sarah Vowell, Colum McCann and Richard Russo. Semple, who kicks off the series on Oct. 5, started out writing for television shows such […]

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Gung Ho For Shows 1/4-1/11

Book these shows now so you don’t miss out.
Hayley Jo Murphy

January 19 Dave Eggers READ—Deschutes Public Library Foundation does it again with its visiting author series. This January, it’s author Dave Eggers presenting. Now in its fifth year, Author! Author! brings some of the country’s top authors to Bend for intimate presentations on the writing process, their current works and literature in general. Eggers’ book, […]

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A Prize-winning Slate of Authors Announced for the Fifth Season of the Library Foundation’s Author! Author! Literary Series

Hayley Jo Murphy

May 24, 2016 (Bend, Oregon) — With the announcement of the Deschutes Public Library Foundation’s fifth season of Author! Author!, there can be no question that the popular literary series has hit its stride. The stellar line-up includes three Pulitzer Prize winners and one Pulitzer finalist, and all four authors have made significant contributions to […]

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Magic Realism Grows by Leaps and Bounds

Author! Author! welcomes with Alice Hoffman
Sherron Lumley

The final award-winning literary artist featured in the 2015/16 Author! Author! series is New York Times best-selling author Alice Hoffman, who will speak Thursday, May 26 at Bend High at 7 p.m. The series began in October and included non-fiction, creative fiction, historical fiction and memoir authors, starting with Timothy Egan, 61, a Pulitzer Prize-winning […]

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Author! Author!

Literary series welcomes Lisa See
Angela Moore

Lisa See is looking forward to coming to Bend to talk about her latest and past books on Thursday, Feb. 25 as a part of the Author! Author! Literary Series put on by the Deschutes County Library. For $25, readers and enthusiasts alike can experience a rare look inside the mind of a best-selling author. […]

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Keeping Books Alive

Ann Patchett writes—and sells—books
Christie Hinrichs

In 2011, the last bookstore in Nashville closed its doors. The book was dead, they said. Who needs bookstores when you can download the most popular titles straight to your preferred device—or better yet, wait for the film adaptation to hit theaters? But Ann Patchett, a lifelong Nashvillian and bestselling author, was having none of […]

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Writing Westward

An interview with Jess Walter
Christie Hinrichs

Jess Walter is the bestselling author of “Beautiful Ruins,” a novel that dominated “best of” lists in 2012 and continues to charm readers of every stripe. His latest work, a collection of short stories called “We Live in Water,” illuminates the hard knocks experienced by Pacific North Westerners with stories that his friend, Central Oregon […]

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Australian-American and Fiction-Journalism

Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks brings novels from history
Christie Hinrichs

Geraldine Brooks, who joins the OSU-Cascades Camps Low Residency in Creative Writing MFA faculty this summer, is a Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, but that genre really is too confining. Her four books are each a fiction, but each is also exhaustively researched, and often inspired by an actual historical event. No surprise that the […]

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Cheryl Strayed’s Next Chapter

Sitting down with a woman famous for hiking
Christie Hinrichs

Author Cheryl Strayed skyrocketed to literary stardom with her 2012 memoir, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, which recounts her 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail. It has earned countless awards, will soon be released as a feature film starring Reese Witherspoon, and brings Strayed to Bend this week as […]

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