Writer

Novelist and screenwriter Jon Raymond writes in a style he calls “literary regionalism.” His collection Livability inspired Kelly Reichardt’s films Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy. His new novel, God and Sex, is earning wide acclaim, with The New York Times praising its “profound, ancient questions.”

Portland author David F. Walker and illustrator Marcus Kwame Anderson have worked together before - on a 2021 graphic novel about the Black Panther Party. This time they’ve teamed up on something a little different: an update of the classic American novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” In their version, “Big Jim and the White Boy,” the escaped slave Jim is more than just Huck’s companion; he’s a fully imagined character. Walker joins us to talk about the work of updating an American classic.

Meet author Brian Doyle whose books are tales of characters, families and a Northwest he both knows and imagines.