Oregon Art Beat
Novelist and Musician Willy Vlautin
Clip: Season 15 Episode 1511 | 8m 3sVideo has Closed Captions
Willy Vlautin writes a story into every song.
Willy Vlautin is a novelist and musician with Portland band Richmond Fontaine. His novel "Lean on Pete" won two Oregon Book Awards: the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and a Readers' Choice Award. Vlautin writes a story into every song, and his prose has been called an elegy of pain, sorrow, beauty and hope.
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Oregon Art Beat is a local public television program presented by OPB
Oregon Art Beat
Novelist and Musician Willy Vlautin
Clip: Season 15 Episode 1511 | 8m 3sVideo has Closed Captions
Willy Vlautin is a novelist and musician with Portland band Richmond Fontaine. His novel "Lean on Pete" won two Oregon Book Awards: the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and a Readers' Choice Award. Vlautin writes a story into every song, and his prose has been called an elegy of pain, sorrow, beauty and hope.
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Artist and Radio Host Eva Lake
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Clip: S15 Ep1511 | 6m 15s | Eva Lake is involved in the Portland art scene in a variety of ways. (6m 15s)
Reading William Stafford: Paulann Petersen
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Clip: S15 Ep1511 | 1m 7s | Oregon's Poet Laureate Paulann Petersen reads William Stafford's "Ask Me." (1m 7s)
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