{"type":"link","asset_type":"article","version":"1.0","cache_age":3600,"provider_name":"CANVAS Arts","provider_url":"https:\/\/artscanvas.org","title":"Willy Vlautin on spotlighting working-class American life in his novels and music","publication_date":"June 29, 2026","summary":"Novelist Willy Vlautin built his career writing about people on the edges of the American dream: working-class families, lonely alcoholics, and those struggling to make ends meet in the fast-changing American West. He’s also a musician, telling his stories through song. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown traveled to Portland, Oregon, for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.","author_name":"By Jeff Brown, Mary Fecteau, ideastream","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn.artscanvas.org\/static\/2026\/06\/9456cf07645b3022f3d0c91f278b5544-musicandwords-1024x576.png","thumbnail_height":576,"thumbnail_width":1024}