Author Author is an occasional feature of interviews with authors in Portland, either on tour or local writers. Ed Goldberg has been conducting these interviews for almost 20 years. Each interview discusses the author’s current work, thoughts and process for writing.
February 20, 2019
This is the first book of a projected trilogy by Charlaine Harris, whose Southern vampire stories have become very popular, especially in TV adaptations. The newest book is An Easy Death, an alternative-history tale of a young woman in a re-imagined America whose job is to safeguard travelers on dangerous journeys. Lizbeth is a “gunnie,” adept at the use of… More
November 15, 2018
Rhonda Rizzo is a classical pianist and a writer. A specialist in the music of living composers, she has released four CDs and appears regularly as a soloist and a collaborative artist. Her numerous articles have been published in national and international music magazines. She has published a novel entitled The Waco Variations, about a… More
October 18, 2018
Signe Pike was born in born in Ithaca, NY, and graduated from Cornell University with her Bachelor of Science in Communication. She worked as an acquisitions editor at Random House and then Penguin, before leaving to write her first book, Faery Tale: One Woman’s Search for Enchantment in a Modern World. Pike has spent the… More
October 9, 2018
Paula Friedman’s honors include Pushcart Prize nominations and New Millenium Writings, OSPA, and other awards and honors, as well as Centrum and Soapstone residencies and fellowships. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous print and online literary magazines and anthologies. Ursula K. Le Guin called Friedman’s debut novel, The Rescuer’s Path (2012, 2018)… More
September 21, 2018
International award-winning architect Donald MacDonald is the designer of the Tilikum Crossing Bridge. He also designed the east span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and was the first architect to work on the Golden Gate Bridge since its original construction. With Ira Nadel, he is the co-author of Golden Gate Bridge: History and Design of… More
August 21, 2018
Kenneth Friedenreich has been drinking, and writing about, wine for a very long time. He is especially keen on Oregon wine and the Oregon wine industry. He is impatient with wine rating systems and the snobbishness that often accompanies wine writing and tasting. I spoke with him at our studios at All Classical Portland.
August 17, 2018
I have known Heather Sharfeddin for several years, and have spoken with her about two of her previous novels. She holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and PhD in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University in Bath, England. Her novels explore western themes based on her early life in Idaho and Montana. She currently… More
August 2, 2018
Carolyn O’Doherty has published the first volume of a projected trilogy about Spinners, a group of mutated kids. Sixteen-year-old Alex is a Spinner. She has the ability to rewind time to review past events. Hated and feared because of their ability to find the truth, the small population of Spinners is restricted to Centers; compounds… More
July 20, 2018
Rachel Kushner was born in Eugene, Oregon, the daughter of two scientists whom she has described as “deeply unconventional people from the beatnik generation.” Her mother arranged after-school work for her straightening and alphabetizing books at a feminist bookstore when she was 5 years old, and Kusher says “it was instilled in me that I… More
May 17, 2018
Apricot Irving is the daughter of missionaries who went to Haiti during one of the the island nation’s many times of turmoil, the 1980s. She spent much of her girlhood and teen years there, as her agronomist father attempted to reforest Haiti, and help the people become subsistence farmers. The story, in her book The Gospel… More