Recto/Verso: Conversations Beyond Art

Join me, your host Liz Asch, as I talk with Lidia Yuknavitch about her experience sharing her book, The Chronology of Water, with the world, and how it’s been for her seeing her memoir transformed into a film, starring Imogen Poots, directed by Kristen Stewart. Lidia is the fairy godmother to a myriad of writers here in Portland, Oregon, and all over the country and the world. She is brilliant and...

Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of 12 books including The Chronology of Water, Reading the Waves, which is her latest book, the Misfits Manifesto, Thrust, Verge, The Small Backs of Children, Joan of Dirt, and Dora: A Headcase. Lidia is the founder of Portland’s cherished school of Corporeal Writing. She has decades of experience teaching, has won awards up the wazoo, and is one of the most beloved...

Jon Raymond's newest novel revolves around a love triangle and what happens when we ‘break the rules’ and bend our own morals. If we make a promise in a moment of duress, are we beholden to it? If it seems like there are consequences to our moral failures, is it all our own invention? and whatever outcome is just happenstance? or is it comeuppance? Who is to say?

Anna Diem is a Portland, Oregon based singer songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Her album, hello Oregon, came out in 2022, Small Victories in 2019 and Gay Love Songs is her 2018 EP. Anna has a wide range of singles as well. You can find her music on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, and BandCamp. Her lyrics are poetic and intimate and she sings about love and queerness culture, nostalgia and y...