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Nancy Sullivan, Verselandia Visionary, is the teacher-librarian at Madison High School in Portland, Oregon. She can be reached at nsulliva@pps.net.

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Thursday, October 11

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Thursday, January 10

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Jeffrey Toobin Barbara Kingsolver Jonathan Franzen Tuesday, March 5

Stephen Greenblatt

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Tuesday, April 23

Nikky Finney tickets at literary-­arts.org/box-­office

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