The Rough Draft with Anthony Alvarado—airing weekly on Wednesdays at 8:30 a.m. on 107.1 XRAY FM in Portland—is what happens when a writer’s notebook grows a voice: brief, sideways dispatches on the mind, the self, and the small instincts that keep us moving through a noisy world.
It’s a weekly, open-ended conversation—part notebook, part trial run—where ideas are tested in real life before they’re cleaned up. Useful when it works, and still interesting when it doesn’t, and always grounded in lived experience.
Part psychology, part creative essay, part survival manual for the bewildered—always brief, always insightful, always hunting for the deeper pattern beneath the day-to-day.