October 23, 2018
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.
January 31, 2018
WARNING: This interview contains frank discussions of sexual behavior and drug use. If you feel you might be offended, please do not listen. Thank you. Erica Garza’s essays have appeared in Salon, Narratively, BUST, Good Housekeeping, and the Los Angeles Review, among other publications. She holds an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University. Getting Off, her memoir on sex addiction,… More
January 19, 2018
Lili Ristagno is a Portland writer, artist and performer. She has been a dancer both with artistic dance companies and in go-go bars. Ristagno’s latest illustrated true crime novella, Death Valley 69, set in that darkly weird period at the birth of the 1970s. The focus is on the Manson family. A caution: some of… More
Gary Rogowski, the Director of The Northwest Woodworking Studio, opened the doors of his shop to offer classes to the public in 1997. As a teacher and builder of fine furniture in Portland since 1974, he has a wealth of information and knowledge to share with others. His goal in opening the Studio was to… More
January 10, 2018
Portland author Bill Kroger’s latest book 13 Months in Vietnam, stands apart from other books that are heavy into the seriousness of war. The last thing any of these four young men wants is to kill someone. As with most young men away from home for the first time, they get into trouble, all sorts of trouble, with… More
November 16, 2017
Sally Stember is a local playwright who has begun turning her dramas into novels. Cate Darringer is the eponymous girl, and focus, of this book. She is a feisty kid living in the Oklahoma territory in the 1890s. Never a dull moment in Cate’s world. I spoke with Sally at our studios at All Classical… More
November 2, 2017
I have known Elizabeth Fournier for almost 25 years. Like anyone who gets to meet her, I was surprised to hear that her ambition was to be a funeral director. Below is a paragraph from her website. We spoke about her book, The Green Reaper: Memoirs of an Eco-mortician. I live in a lovely, rural… More
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
