Susan Orlean and Lidia Yuknavitch’s Portland Book Festival appearances will be some of the weekend’s biggest draws, to say nothing of former Georgia state rep (and one-time Star Trek actress) Stacey Abrams at the Schnitz, or WW culture writer Rachel Saslow’s conversation with National Book Award finalists Omar El Akkad and Karen Russell. You already know why they’re such big draws, so what about some of the writers a little farther down the marquee? Here are a few upcoming PBF events that caught our attention.

Safe as Houses: Cleyvis Natera and Leni Zumas

OPB senior producer Allison Frost moderates a discussion between these two authors under the umbrella topic of how buildings and the spaces they house also work to support existing dynamics within capitalism. Natera’s novel The Gr

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