Drags soapbox center-stage “When I came to Portland four years ago, I found a city with the best bookstore in the world but publications disinclined to challenge reader or advertiser ” [Sound of eyes glazing] “To run articles of New Yorker-style intrepidity and length ” [Chairs scrape] “This is changing, in part due to Wordstock, with its sybaritic mob of writers and events.” “Ma’am? We’re heading there now.” “Oh.” [Steps off box. Considers how outfit looks without it.]