Moonlight Bay’s radio station, KBAY, is entirely a fictional enterprise. The real KBAY is located in Santa Cruz, California, and none of the employees of the Moonlight Bay station is based on any past or present employee of the Santa Cruz station. These call letters were borrowed here for one reason: They’re cool.
In chapter seventeen, Christopher Snow quotes a line from a poem by Louise Glück. The title of the poem is “Lullaby,” and it appears in Ms. Glück’s wonderful and moving Ararat.
Christopher Snow, Bobby Halloway, Sasha Goodall, and Orson are real. I have spent many months with them. I like their company, and I intend to spend a lot more time with them in the years to come.
— DK