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"Character Building" with Lauren Groff, Tommy Orange, Caitlin Weierhauser, and Lucy Kaplansky
Live Wire with Luke Burbank
English - December 07, 2018 12:00 - 54 minutes - 43.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 295 ratingsPerforming Arts Arts Music live wire livewire luke burbank tbtl public radio comedy variety Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this second installment from the Portland Book Festival, host Luke Burbank and Elena Passarello explore the process of “character building” for actors; celebrated author Lauren Groff makes the case for why art is not a competition; writer Tommy Orange discusses how urban Native identity became the theme of his debut novel There There; comedian Caitlin Weierhauser admits to telling all her secrets to pugs; and singer-songwriter Lucy Kaplansky performs her tune “Keeping Time.”