Current National Book Award Finalists and Longlisters Safia Elhillo (Home Is Not a Country, Young People’s Literature), Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (The Love Songs of W. E. B. DuBois, Fiction), and Hoa Nguyen (A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, Poetry) come together for a variety-style showcase of readings and interviews. Presented in partnership with the Portland Book Festival.

Moderated by Dao Strom, author of Instrument, and its musical companion, Traveler’s Ode.