August’s guest at Literary Ashland Radio was our friend Tod Davies. She’s the author of the Arcadia Series, now up to book four with her recently released Report to Megalopolis. The previous volume include Snotty saves the Day, Lily the Silent, and The Lizard Princess. Tod also is the editor/publisher of Exterminating Angel Press and the author two books on cooking, Jam Today: A Diary of Cooking With What You’ve Got, and Jam Today Too: The Revolution Will Not Be Catered.
Literary Ashland with Brook Colley
Our June 2018 guest was Brook Colley (Wasco, Warm Springs, Eastern Cherokee) (Enrolled: Eastern Band of Cherokee), chair and assistant professor of Native American Studies at Southern Oregon University. Her teaching and research interests include Queer Indigenous Studies, Native women, Native cinema(s), federal Indian law & policy, intertribal relations & conflict, and community health & healing. Her book Power in the Telling: Grand Ronde, Warm Springs, and Intertribal Relations in the Casino Era has just been published.
Through extensive interviews, she explores Indigenous perspectives on intertribal conflict related to tribal gaming, and reveals how casino economies affect the relationship between gaming tribes and federal and state governments. The book highlights the repercussions for the tribes themselves and their strategies for reconciliation and cooperation, emphasizing narratives of resilience and tribal sovereignty.
Literary Ashland with Jackie Apodaca
Our May 2018 guest was Jackie Apodaca. She is a professor of theatre at Southern Oregon University. She has worked as an actor, director, and producer in theatre, film, and media, with companies such as the Roundabout, Denver Center, National Geographic, filmscience, Modern Media (head of production), Venice Theatre Works (associate artistic director), Shakespeare Santa Barbara (producing director), and Ashland New Plays Festival (associate artistic director). Jackie earned an MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory, under the guidance of RSC founding member, Tony Church.
For nearly a decade, Jackie Apodaca and Michael Kostroff shared duties as advice columnists for the actors’ trade paper, Backstage. Their highly popular weekly feature, “The Working Actor,” fielded questions from actors all over the country. A cross between “Dear Abby” and The Hollywood Reporter, their column was a fact-based, humorous, compassionate take on the questions actors most wanted answered. Using some of their most interesting, entertaining, and informative columns as launch points, their new book Answers from “The Working Actor” guides readers through the ins and outs (and ups and downs) of the acting industry.
Literary Ashland — Ashland Literary Arts Festival
The September edition of Literary Ashland Radio focused on the upcoming Ashland Literary Arts Festival, scheduled for October 28 at the Hannon Library on the SOU campus. Tod Davies, Vice President of the Board of the Friends of the Hannon Library, explained this years event and how it’s different from earlier years. Have a listen.
Literary Ashland with Steve Scholl
Joining us for the March 2017 edition of Literary Ashland Radio is Steve Scholl, author and publisher. Steve Scholl is an independent scholar of Islam and comparative religion.
He studied Islamic philosophy and history at McGill University. He has lived and traveled extensively in the Middle East. He founded White Cloud Press in 1993. White Cloud Press has been publishing acclaimed works on World Religions, Mysticism and Spirituality, Ecology, Yoga, Politics, and Memoirs.
