Literary Ashland with Bobby Arellano

It’s with a little bit of bitter sweetness that I post this episode of Literary Ashland Radio. The December 2020 show was our last show. Ed and I started Literary Ashland Radio in July 2014 as the audio spin-off to his long-running blog Literary Ashland.

In the six-and-a-half years since, we’ve interviewed a host of local authors, poets, publishers and bookstore owners. All told, we produced seventy-three shows. The vast majority were live shows broadcast from the KSKQ studio on East Hersey Street.

When the pandemic hit, we weren’t entirely unprepared. Since our show always ran on the 4th Friday of the month, the November and December shows invariable fell on the Thanksgiving weekend and into the Christmas days. We prerecorded those. COVID added the Zoom recorded shows to the mix. Audio quality wasn’t the best, but we made do.

This last show is, as I mention at the beginning of the recording, a recreation of the very first show back in 2014 when we had Bobby as our inaugural guest. Much water has flown down Ashland Creek in the meantime, but we thought it a fitting ending to a wonderful experience. I’m sure Bobby didn’t mind serving as the bookends for our show.