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Set in a changing Portland, Willy Vlautin’s new novel tells the story of its desperate residents chasing after normalcy. The author of Lean On Pete and singer of Richmond Fontaine and The Delines talks to Adam Zamecnik about gentrification, trauma, and Portland, Oregon
Richmond Fontaine frontman Willy Vlautin talks to John Freeman about his new music project, The Delines, and why latest new novel The Free almost put him "in a sanitarium". We also have an exclusive stream of Colfax, the new Delines album