Wordstock Festival 2011: the 7th Live Wire! wordstock extravagan...

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the 7th Live Wire! wordstock extravaganza

The moment we’ve all been waiting for—the 2011 Wordstock edition of Live Wire! Come be a part of the studio audience for the popular radio variety show, recorded right in front of you and broadcast by Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB). You’ll witness the brilliant wit, bright stars and big laughs that are the trademark of Live Wire! It’s music, it’s conversation, it’s sketch comedy. This year’s show will feature musical guest Wild Ones and conversations with some of the extraordinary authors joining us at Wordstock, including none other than the prolific and hilarious Steve Almond and Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan!

Tickets: $25 for general admission and $35 for reserved seating, available at livewireradio.org.

Speakers

Steve Almond

Steve Almond is the author of ten books, three of which (crazily) he published himself. His work has been included in The Pushcart Prize and Best American Short Stories. His newest book is a collection of stories called GOD BLESS AMERICA. It is very patriotic, in its own heartbroken way.

Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan is the author of A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD, THE KEEP, LOOK AT ME, THE INVISIBLE CIRCUS and the story collection EMERALD CITY. Her stories have been published in the New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, GQ, Zoetrope, All-Story and Ploughshares, and her nonfiction appears frequently in the New York Times Magazine. In 2011, she won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. She...
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Craig Thompson

Craig Thompson was born in Michigan in 1975 and grew up in a rural farming community in central Wisconsin. His graphic novel BLANKETS won numerous industry awards and has been published in nearly twenty languages. His new book is HABIBI. Thompson lives in Portland.

Isabel Wilkerson

Isabel Wilkerson won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her reporting as Chicago bureau chief of the New York Times. The award made her the first black woman in the history of American journalism to win a Pulitzer Prize and the first African American to win for individual reporting. She won the George Polk Award for her coverage of the Midwest and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for her research into the Great Migration. She has lectured on narrative writing at the Nieman...
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