Category Archives: Ideas and Opinions

An Interview with Dennis Baron, author of What’s Your Pronoun?

Posted on February 27, 2020 by Ed Battistella

Dennis Baron is an emeritus professor of English and linguistics at the University of Illinois and the author of eight books, including Grammar and Good Taste: Reforming the American Language (Yale University Press, 1982); Grammar and Gender (Yale University Press, … Continue reading →

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Literary Ashland Author Interviews 2011-2018

Posted on December 31, 2019 by Ed Battistella

Check out our author and publisher interviews 2011 through 2018 2018 author interviews Clive Rosengren and Sharon Dean Interview Each Other An Interview with Wallace Stroby An Interview with Kit and Cat Seaton about The Black Bull of Norroway An … Continue reading →

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Index to Literary Ashland, KSKQ Radio 89.5 FM

Posted on December 19, 2019 by Ed Battistella

Check out the KSKQ Radio interviews that Michael Niemann and Ed Battistella do on Literary Ashland Radio, KSKQ. On the fourth Friday of each month. Literary Ashland with Sonya Daw Literary Ashland with Phil Busse Literary Ashland with Molly Best … Continue reading →

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An Interview with Jeffrey Ostler

Posted on November 25, 2019 by Ed Battistella

Jeffrey Ostler is Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History at the University of Oregon, where he specializes in the history of the American West and American Indian history. He has a PhD from the University of Iowa and his … Continue reading →

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Robert Arellano Interviews Stanley Crawford, author of The Garlic Testament

Posted on November 2, 2019 by Ed Battistella

Stanley Crawford is an award-winning author whose modern classic Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico received the Western States Book Award and earned him comparisons to Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, and Terry Tempest Williams. He is also … Continue reading →

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Robert Arellano Interviews Stanley Crawford, author of The Garlic Testament

What Kind of a Teacher Am I This Time? A guest post by Benjamin Lucas Garcia

Posted on October 28, 2019 by Ed Battistella

Benjamin Lucas Garcia is the Education Coordinator & PBS Teacher Ambassador for Southern Oregon Public Television. In 2017, SOPTV became one of five stations in rural areas across the U.S. to become part of the PBS Teacher Community Program, which … Continue reading →

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An Interview with Les AuCoin, author of Catch and Release

Posted on September 10, 2019 by Ed Battistella

Les AuCoin was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives for two terms beginning in 1971 and was selected majority leader in 1973 at the age of thirty-one. He represented Oregon in the US House of Representatives for 18 years, … Continue reading →

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Researching Lesbian Separatism, a guest post by Mary Gently

Posted on August 14, 2019 by Ed Battistella

Mary Gently is an aspiring historian based in the Rogue Valley. She recently graduated from Southern Oregon University with a Bachelor’s degree in History and a minor in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with Departmental … Continue reading →

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Sentence Diagramming, a guest post by Maggie Alvarez

Posted on August 7, 2019 by Ed Battistella

Maggie Alvarez recently completed her second-year studying English and Spanish at Southern Oregon University. Originally from Sacramento, California, she found a love for writing through a series of creative writing and stage performance classes at her high school. Those classes … Continue reading →

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A Historical and Cultural Examination of Central Yup’ik, a guest post by Gwendolyn Bogard

Posted on July 30, 2019 by Ed Battistella

Gwendolyn Bogard is member of the Honors College at SOU, where she studies Chemistry in preparation for a career in science communication. The village of Atmautluak sits in the middle of the Alaskan tundra about four hundred miles West of … Continue reading →

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