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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.

 

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Literary Ashland with John Yunker

Our guest for the first Literary Ashland show of 2017 was John Yunke. John is the author of the novel The Tourist Trail and co-founder of a boutique environmental publisher, Ashland Creek Press. His short stories have been published by journals such as Phoebe, Flyway, and Antennae. His plays have been produced by the Washington DC Source Festival, the Oregon Contemporary Theatre, the Studio Players Theatre, and the Ashland Contemporary Theatre.

He also has a passion for languages and for helping companies develop better multilingual websites.

 

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Literary Ashland with SOU Honors Students, pt. 1

The November 2017 edition of Literary Ashland Radio is the first of two special shows. On November 18, 2017, six students in SOU’s honors college read their work at the Words and Wine event at Weisingers winery. In this show, you’ll get a quick introduction to the honors college followed the first three students reading from their work. They are:

  • Reilly Nycum, a sophomore in the Honors College at SOU. Originally from Sacramento, California, she is an English major with a minor in History and a passion for photography. She reads “My Old Ways.”
  • Haley Eck, a Senior English major with a concentration in English education and a psychology minor. She is a transfer student from Omaha, Nebraska. She reads “Manipulation with Cake.”
  • Cole Barnes, a sophomore in the Honors College hailing from Oakland, Oregon. He likes to play guitar, listen to music, and study literature.  He reads selected poems.

Watch for the second installment in late December.

 

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Literary Ashland with Sharon Dean

Sharon DeanIt was a pleasure interviewing fellow author Sharon Dean on my radio show last Friday. Sharon is the author of the Susan Warner mysteries and a member of my writing group. She grew up in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. From Massachusetts, it was a small leap to the University of  New Hampshire and a degree in English. When her husband was assigned to Pease Air Force Base in New Hampshire, she seized the opportunity to enter graduate school at UNH.

Armed with a Ph.D. and facing a declining job market, Sharon spent several years laboring on the adjunct teaching circuit before she began a full-time career at Rivier University in Nashua, New Hampshire. Four academic books later, Sharon has become professor emerita and has moved with, yes, the same husband to Ashland, Oregon. She has sworn off books that require footnotes and is reinventing herself as a writer of mystery novels.

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Literary Ashland with Jim Risser

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I wasn’t able to participate in this interview, so you can listen to Ed Battistella as he interviews Jim Risser on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prizes.

Jim Risser was the Washington Bureau Chief for the Des Moines Register and won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 1976 for disclosing large-scale corruption in the American grain exporting trade.