Ray Pollock News Today

Donald Ray Pollock is coming to the three-day Word of South festival to read from his work and field questions Saturday, April 9, in Cascades Park.

May 26, 2021 9:18 a.m. As a lifelong novel consumer who enjoys throwing myself into other worlds for hours on end, it probably won’t come as a surprise that I don’t read too many short stories. The few I have read were part of a capstone creative writing course my senior year of college. But those short works of literature have stuck with me long after graduation — the copies a little dusty with faded highlighter marks, cracked spines and remnants of past lives in oth...