September 23, 2017
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.
September 22, 2017
I have known Cindy Brown, a local Portland author, since her first book, Macdeath, was published. (You can hear the interview on this site.) Her protagonist is Ivy Meadows, actress in local theater productions in Arizona, and an amateur sleuth. Cindy’s latest book is Ivy Get Your Gun. Was the shooting of an actor… More
September 8, 2017
I have been interviewing authors for almost 25 years, but this is the first time I have spoken with a writer who is a potential Nobel laureate. Salman Rushdie is an acclaimed novelist and writer of short stories and essays. He has won numerous prestigious awards for his work, including the Booker Prize and the… More
August 30, 2017
Craig Allen has been a listener to our radio station since it went on the air. Always a friendly face and ready with a quip, he is also a great volunteer. Now, it seems, also an author, and a good one. He has produced a trilogy in the spy/thriller genre. I spoke with him about the… More
August 29, 2017
Sarah Sentilles is a moral force. I spoke with her at the All Classical studios. In a book that is, by turns, humorous, provoctative and horrifying, she makes a case for the power of the image and its effect on the viewer. This is from her website: In Draw Your Weapons, Sentilles tells the true stories of… More
August 4, 2017
In her own words: I was going to be a pianist. I was not crazy to think so. By some magic of genetics and environment, the keys rose to meet my fingers and music came. And then, too soon, by some inverted miracle of genetics and environment, rheumatoid arthritis appeared. The keys still rose to… More
May 22, 2017
I have been interviewing creative people for 40 years, but I am not a journalist. I have no training in the journalistic standards for doing an interview, and I like it that way, because I think it allows for a more natural conversation. But, even my minimal objective distance went missing when I spoke with… More
April 20, 2017
I have known Lisa See for about 20 years, and have spoken with her for each of her books, since the second one. Here is information about her taken from her website. In her beloved New York Times bestsellers Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love, Shanghai Girls, Dreams of Joy, and, most recently, China Dolls, Lisa See has brilliantly… More
April 3, 2017
I first interviewed Greg for his second book, The Bone Tree. To catch up to the story, I had to read almost 1700 pages. And, it was a breeze. The definition of page-turners: great action and characters, a terrific story. The third book of the trilogy, Mississippi Blood, is out now. I spoke with Greg… More
March 1, 2017
From the website of J.K. Knauss: I’m an author who writes historical fiction set in medieval Spain and magical contemporary fiction. The Middle Ages have hovered over my shoulder my whole life, but it wasn’t until after I was halfway through a master’s degree that I fully realized that this was the time the fairy… More
February 21, 2017
Shanthi Sekaran teaches creative writing at California College of the Arts, and is a member of the Portuguese Artists Colony and the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Her work has appeared in Best New American Voices and Canteen, and online at Zyzzyva and Mutha Magazine. Her first novel, The Prayer Room, was published by MacAdam Cage. A California native, she lives in Berkeley with… More