Elliott Smith's 'Either/Or' At 20 | Slim Moon | Larry Crane
This week’s show is a rebroadcast from April 2017. Twenty-two years ago Elliott Smith opened a door into a hypnotic new world. The album, “E...
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20 of 837 episodesScotland's Mobile Libraries | Tales from the Fisher Poets | East Portland’s Arte Soleil
Sometimes good stories take a while. This week, long-awaited gems from Astoria’s Fisher Poets and an arts outpost in East Portland. Also, a...
REBROADCAST | John Doe On LA’s Punk Scene | Team Dresch | Chachalu’s Loan From The British Museum
This episode originally aired on June 8th, 2019. It’s a weird world that obliges you to negotiate for decades to borrow things your great-gr...
REBROADCAST | Kiese Laymon | Ted Chiang | Rosanne Parry
State of Wonder is bringing back some of our best episodes, and today’s was an easy yes. Some years, you get some good books. And then there...
REBROADCAST | Satirist Andy Borowitz | 'Teenage Dick' At Artists Rep | keyon gaskin And Nadia Buyse
This episode originally aired on Jan. 12, 2018. Embarrassing situations don’t always result in great inspiration — but we wonder if some art...
REBROADCAST | The Native Perspective Missing from Design | Design Week Portland | Adia Victoria
This episode originally aired on April 13, 2018. We’re playing some of our favorite episodes this fall, looking back on all the things we ma...
Nicole Georges' Rumspringa
Writer, illustrator, podcaster and storyteller Nicole Georges relocated to Los Angeles to upscale her prolific career. We’ve loved her work...
REBROADCAST | Abigail DeVille | Leni Zumas | Typhoon | Omar El Akkad
This episode originally aired on Nov. 3, 2018. If you’ve been feeling like the lines are blurring between the America you imagined and the A...
REBROADCAST | Aja Gabel + Oregon Symphony | Classical’s #MeToo Reckoning | The Met Opera Aria Code
Wash some dishes to Brahms, and for one brief shining moment, you’ll feel like your life is being directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. This wee...
Nicole Georges | Malia Jensen | Anne Ellegood | Guns and Design
It’s April’s last show before heading off to Michigan … sigh. There WILL be more State of Wonder faves in the weeks to come, but right now w...
REBROADCAST | Tommy Orange | Trevino Brings Plenty
This week we are re-visiting a conversation we had in 2018 with author, Tommy Orange. His breakthrough debut novel, titled, “There, There,”...
Caitlin Weierhauser | Looking Back at OCAC Closure | Preserving Creative Space
As we head toward the end of the year - and a big transition for State of Wonder - we’ve sorted a few key stories about where we’ve been and...
Helado Negro | Saloli | Malheur Refuge Symphony
This episode originally aired in April 2019. Who doesn’t love music? You’re not going to believe this, but we actually found someone. JoAnna...
Indie Film Producer Christine Vachon_Karen Russell_Mitchell Jackson_Christopher Marley
The producer who brought so many classics of queer cinema to life is coming to BendFilm Festival this fall. We talk with Christine Vachon ab...
Margaret Atwood & Ursula K. Le Guin | Nilufer Yanya | OK Theater’s 100th Anniversary
What gets us through those uncertain moments? The speculative story? The daring album concept? The strenuous film shoot? The risky venture?...
Ken Burns’ Country Music | Women Who Skate | Wellness Warrior Camp | Pass The Mic
This episode is as American as it gets. We got country music, women skateboarding, indigenous youth reconnecting with their land, immigrant...
Ruth E. Carter | THING Music Festival | ASL in the Arts
Innovators and icons tend to have something in common, they do things differently. This week we hear stories from a few people changing the...
From The Archives: Kelly Sue DeConnick & Matt Fraction
This week we're going back to a favorite guest curated episode from 2014. Husband and wife Kelly Sue DeConnick and Matt Fraction have each r...
Emilly Prado | Michelle Ruiz Keil | Tehlor Kay Mejia
As much as we may try, we can never leave our younger selves in the dust. This week, three writers mine from their own childhoods to create...
Molly Gloss | Holland Andrews | Behind The Bullet
Yearning for voices to steer you through the darkness this week? We’ve found stories from places of devastation and salvation: from an artis...