Belief in Action: An Interview With Marissa Landrigan
Marissa Landrigan, author of The Vegetarian’s Guide to Eating Meat, had been a vegetarian for seven years when she came to the slow realization…
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On Joy and Desire: An Interview with Sarah Ladipo Manyika
hen Sarah Ladipo Manyika reads lwaloud from her new novel—the exquisitely titled Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun—she becomes the characters…
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A Slave to the Essayistic Impulse: An Interview with Angela Morales
he job of the essayist, like any storyteller,” writes Angela Morales in the introduction to her debut essay collection The Girls in My Town,…
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LITERARY STORIES ABOUT ONLINE EXPERIENCES: AN INTERVIEW WITH LEIGH STEIN
I first learned about Leigh Stein after she published an essay in the New York Times about the importance of young memoirists. She writes:…
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Investigating Injustice: An Interview with Antonia Juhasz
write about oil,” reads Antonia Juhasz’s business card. And write, speak, report about it she does: from a gas field in Afghanistan, from the…
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Short Prose and Persistence: An Interview with Penny Guisinger
Penny Guisinger recently went on the United State’s easternmost book tour for her first memoir, Postcards from Here.
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Loss and Labor: An interview with Mira Ptacin
In 2008, when Mira Ptacin was five months pregnant, she attended a writing workshop in Northern California.
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Rock and a Hard Place: An Interview with Lauret Savoy
or Lauret Savoy, the American landscape is both a refuge and a provocation. In her work as a writer and geologist, she parses layers…
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Truth and Lies: An Interview with Janice Erlbaum
When Villard Books, a Random House imprint, published Janice Erlbaum’s second memoir, Have You Found Her (2008), Vanity Fair threw her a party at…
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Beyond the Archives: An Interview with Rebecca Onion
For Rebecca Onion, history is a reservoir of problems and questions that resonate as deeply with the present as they do with the past.
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Beginnings, Ends, and In-Betweens: An Interview With Sarah Manguso
“I don’t think in stories, I never have. I know that everybody does, that we do think in stories, that’s like a physiological necessity. I guess I’m interested in parts of stories, but this whole idea of having a narrative arc with a beginning a middle and an end, that just never really worked on me.”
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