THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2021 • THE BULLETIN
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LOCAL LITERARY HIGHLIGHTS
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Pulitzer-winning
journalists to wrap
up Author! Author!
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Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn are the co-authors of “Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope.”
BY DAVID JASPER
The Bulletin
P
ulitzer Prize-winning authors
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
— the first husband and wife pair to
earn the prize — are often asked how they
can write together and stay married. Their
output includes books such as “Thunder
from the East,” “Half the Sky” and, most re-
cently, 2020’s “Tightrope: Americans Reach-
ing for Hope,” a deep dive into impoverished
America, the policies that create poverty
and proposals that might fix it.
The two will discuss the book on March 4
in the third and final 2021 Author! Author!
event from Deschutes Public Library.
According to Kristof, 61, “We raised three
kids together, and if you can raise three kids
together and stay, a book is a piece of cake,”
he said with a chuckle.
However, they’re not exactly sitting elbow
to elbow at the keyboard. Kristof and Wu-
Dunn divide tasks when tackling a project.
“We tend to carve up the topics and go off
and report separately, and interview people
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book notes
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News from Central Oregon’s reading scene
Poetry event to make
a winter night ‘brighter’
Roundabout Books will host a virtual Zoom
event promoting “Suppose the room just
got brighter,” the new chapbook from Jenna
Goldsmith, at 6 p.m. Thursday. Published by Fin-
ishing Line Press, it’s the third book from Gold-
smith, senior instructor of writing at Oregon
State University-Cascades and one of four mem-
bers of the Portland-based interdisciplinary arts
group Danger Punch.
Poet Jennifer Tseng has said of the work in
“Suppose the Room Just got Brighter,” “Her po-
ems are effervescent; even the heavy ones tread
lightly as children in a fairy tale, ever alive with
bewilderment and curiosity.”
To procure a link to the Zoom event, visit
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Jenna Goldsmith is a senior instructor of
writing at Oregon State University-Cas-
cades.
roundaboutbookshop.com.
— David Jasper, The Bulletin