Category Archives: Interviews

An Interview with Alissa Lukara, author of Secrets of the Trees

Posted on April 21, 2020 by Ed Battistella

Alissa Lukara is the author of the novel Secrets of the Trees, set in Latvia.  Her memoir, Riding Grace: A Triumph of the Soul (Silver Light Publications), was called by the Midwest Book Review “a transcendental story about the immeasurable … Continue reading →

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An Interview with Melissa Matthewson, author of Tracing the Desire Line

Posted on January 8, 2020 by Ed Battistella

Melissa Matthewson lives in southwestern Oregon. She is the author of a collaborative chapbook, (un)learning, with Andrea Beltran from Artifact Press (2016). Her essays have been published in numerous places including DIAGRAM, Mid-American Review, Guernica, River Teeth, and Bellingham Review … Continue reading →

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2019 Author Interviews

Posted on December 27, 2019 by Ed Battistella

Check out our 2019 Author interviews An Interview with Curt Colbert An Interview with Jeffrey Ostler Robert Arellano Interviews Stanley Crawford, author of The Garlic Testament An Interview with Irv Lubliner, editor of Only Hope: A Survivor’s Stories of the Holocaust … 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 Curt Colbert

Posted on December 9, 2019 by Ed Battistella

Curt Colbert is a Seattle native, a history buff, an avid fisherman, a Vietnam veteran and the author the Jake Rossiter series of hardboiled private eye novels set in 1940s Seattle. Curt Colbert has written five humorous mystery novels in … 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

An Interview with Irv Lubliner, editor of Only Hope: A Survivor’s Stories of the Holocaust

Posted on October 1, 2019 by Ed Battistella

Educator and musician Irv Lubliner of Ashland retired from Southern Oregon University in 2014 after teaching mathematics for forty years, working with every grade from kindergarten through graduate school. He recently edited and published his mother’s writing and oral presentation … Continue reading →

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An Interview with David A. Oas

Posted on September 26, 2019 by Ed Battistella

David A. Oas is Professor Emeritus of psychology at Southern Oregon University, having retired in 1997 to continue private practice as a clinical and forensic psychologist. In the 1970s he attended the University of Southern California Film School and wrote, … 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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