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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.

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Literary Ashland with … who?…really?…okay with me, myself and friends

So, we started the new year with me as the guest. Which didn’t result in trading places because I still had to run the board, but Ed Battistella and Bobby Arellano were wonderful hosts, asking me questions about my new book, how I started writing and broader questions. We had a good time, which matters most.

So, have a listen. And use the comment section below to tell me what you think. And don’t forget. If you’re in the Ashland region, come to the book release event at Bloomsbury Books on Main Street in Ashland.

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Literary Ashland with Bobby Arellano

Our November show was pre-recorded since it falls on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Our guest was Bobby Arellano, author of the Edgar-finalist Havana Lunar and forthcoming Havana Libre (Akashic Books, December 2017). His other books include Curse The Names, Don Dimaio of La Plata, and Fast Eddie, King of the Bees, all published by Akashic Books. He teaches at Southern Oregon University and is an Oregon Literary Fellow, and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow.

 

 

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Literary Ashland with Michael Niemann

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I know what you’re going to say. “Isn’t Literary Ashland Radio on KSKQ always with Michael Niemann?” The answer is, of course, “Yes.” Ed Battistella and I have been doing this show for two and a half years now.

But this episode is special. Ed enlisted the help of our friend and first time ever guest Bobby Arellano to interview me. Why me? Well, my second novel is about to be published and Ed and Bobby put me in the “hot” seat for a little bit. We had a great conversation about protagonists, bureaucracies and whether or not there is an Oregon version of Carl Hiaasen. Give it a listen. You’ll enjoy it.